Immigration and racism
It never ceases to amaze me how some people can keep on pushing the tired old racism barrow when it comes to immigration, when by now it should be crystal clear to everyone, even your journalist Lisa Macdonald ("Population
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By Sean Healy
More than 10,000 university and secondary students and university staff rallied nationwide on May 8 to demand that the federal government reverse the drastic funding cuts to education implemented in last year's budget. The national
Young people occupy premier's office
SYDNEY — On May 9, around 30 Justice For Young People activists occupied the premier's office in protest against the planned "street safety" legislation. They were later removed by around 90 police
By Norm Dixon
With the rebels of the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Zaire-Congo (ADFL) just a few days' march from the capital, Kinshasa, dictator Mobutu Sese Seko suddenly left Zaire on May 7 to attend a meeting of
Lucky it happens so seldom
"Sacking an entire class of apprentices just before they were due to take up permanent positions with Qantas is the kind of behaviour which gives the free market a bad name ..." — Liberal MP Tony Abbott.
On May 9, more than 3000 anti-racist protesters prevented Pauline Hanson from launching her One Nation party in Hobart. In contrast to the large crowd of protesters, the launch attracted just over 300 supporters. Tony Iltis reports that more than
Stolen timber recovered
Timber stolen from the Nuxalk nation (an indigenous people from the north-west coast of Canada) was recovered from a UK timber yard on April 9. The timber has been handed to police, who have been asked to prosecute the
In his state of the republic address last year, French President Jacques Chirac said: "The dissolution of the National Assembly is a constitutional weapon which the president cannot deploy for reasons of personal convenience". But On April 21, Chirac
The Australian government's policy positions appeared as those of a "self-interested hypocrite" at an important environmental meeting in New York, according to Friends of the Earth (FoE). The meeting was the fifth session of the Commission for
Women fight for a future
By James Vassilopoulos
@box text intro = LIVERPOOL — When dock workers on the east coast of the United States boycotted ships from Liverpool, Women of the Waterfront (WoW) went to the house of the director of the
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Access News — Melbourne
By Peter Montague
The corporate decision in 1923 to add toxic lead to gasoline changed the chemistry of Earth, particularly the northern hemisphere. According to the US National Research Council (NRC), in 1983 industrial emissions of lead into
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