Albert Park arrests go to court
By Felicity Whitworth
MELBOURNE — Over the past six months there have been 246 arrests at protest actions at Albert Park. One hundred and one people have been charged. Their hearings will take place on May
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By Lisa Macdonald
Peace activists around the country have condemned the federal government's decision, announced on May 18, to collaborate with the US in the development of new ground-based anti-ballistic missile technology.
Australian
Melbourne PTU fights for wage increase
By Tully Bates
MELBOURNE — "The way the union is fighting by going to the Industrial Relations Commission is not the way to fight." This statement by a tram driver at the Brunswick tram depot after a
By Sean Healy
On May 8, 1945, Marshal Georgi Zhukov, supreme commander of the Soviet armed forces; General William Tedder, Britain's air chief marshal; General Carl Spaatz, commander of the US strategic airforce; and General Jean de Lattre de
Les Patriotes
Directed by Eric Rochant
At the Academy Twin in Sydney and Cinema Como in Melbourne from May 25
Reviewed by Jennifer Thompson
Many fawning journalistic words have been written about Israel's secret service agency, the
Amateur
Written, directed and produced by Hal Hartley
Starring Isabelle Huppert, Martin Donovan and Elina Lowensohn
Screening at the Sydney Film Festival
Reviewed by Barry Healy
Here is the strange world of Amateur: an ex-nun writing
Nuclear dumping in Japan
By Eva Cheng
Japan's central government and power industries have dumped 14 tons of highly radioactive waste in the northern fishing and farming town of Rokkasho despite strong objection from the local residents.
The President of the Bougainville Interim Government, Francis Ona, on May 16 called for an end to armed conflict with Papua New Guinea on Bougainville.
The resolution of the interim government:
reiterated its demand for the withdrawal of
By Nikki Ulasowski
Following the May 3 "No Fees for Degrees" national day of action, students in Adelaide established a tent university outside the ALP headquarters. Green Left Weekly interviewed EMMA WEBB, an activist in the South Australian
WA TAFE teachers protest privatisation
By Martin Price
and Anne Pavy
PERTH — Coffins, symbolising the death of TAFE, were carried onto the steps of Parliament House during a rally on May 18 organised by the State School Teachers Union
By Michael Tardif
AUCKLAND — Students across New Zealand demonstrated against fees for tertiary education on May 3 as part of a national day of action timed to coincide with similar student actions in Australia.
The actions demanded an
By Jorge Jorquera
The Labor National Herald: This is undoubtedly what the true believers have been waiting for. It is, sort of, what the headline on the cover of the first issue proclaims — "the first national Labor paper".
A memo from
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