Homeless Aborigines evicted
DARWIN — At sunrise on May 29, police raided a camp of homeless Aboriginal people occupying bush land at Lee Point. The group — who had camped there for 18 days in defiance of eviction orders from the minister of
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Double standard
You are standing in the midst of a great crowd — two vast groups of people are in vehement opposition. Banners and flags are waved frantically; signs held aloft. What starts as half-hearted shouts and cries grows quickly into
'Why we are protesting against Hanson'
@box text intro = Green Left Weekly spoke to people at the anti-Hanson rally about why they were publicly protesting.
Sarah, 15, high school student: "I just think racism is wrong, and we need to
TWU truck ban wins pay rises
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — Nearly 20 transport companies in Queensland have agreed to pay wage increases of 11%, in the face of nationwide black bans by the Transport Workers Union on employers who refuse to pay
Getting real about jobs
@box text intro = The federal government's decision to delay the gradual reduction of tariffs on cars was welcomed by the car companies with the claim that this would preserve jobs in the industry. But whether jobs will
The final "Justice Tour: Fighting Hanson's Racism" meeting, in Sydney on June 13, was the culmination of a very successful national tour to encourage people to join the struggle against the racism of MP Pauline Hanson and to fight the racist polices
First lockout under Workplace Relations Act
By Rob Graham
ADELAIDE — All 20 workers, members of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union, at Radco Crane Hire have been locked out and subsequently sacked after the collapse of
Did Dita do it?
By Max Lane
@box text intro = On June 12, the private Indonesian TV station SCTV broadcast a report stating that riots had broken out in Medaeng prison, Surabaya.
Dita Sari, president of the Indonesian Centre for Labour
By Lisa Macdonald
Sinn Féin's results in three elections within five weeks mark a significant strengthening of the republican movement in Ireland. The wave of successes began with the British elections on May 1, in which a swing of 10%
Last October 21, the pilot of a Cuban airliner noticed a US-registered light aircraft releasing a white or greyish mist. Seven weeks later, an insect plague of plant-damaging thrips, previously unknown in Cuba, was discovered in a state farm. The
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