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The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) construction division has called a national strike for May 20 to protest against the government and the building industry bosses' attempt to strip back national building industry awards.
17th Doll at New Theatre
Ray Lawler's Australian classic, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, has opened at the New Theatre in Newtown. The story of two Queensland cane cutters and their seasonal romance with two Melbourne bar maids is directed by
By Cam Walker
The federal Coalition has already clocked up an atrocious track record on the environment. Consequently, any announcement, even of something as routine as a review of environmental legislation, is yet another reason to get nervous.
MUA alleges sabotage
BRISBANE — Waterside workers who triumphantly returned to work at Patrick's
wharves at Hamilton and Fisherman Island on May 8 have alleged that the
non-union work force damaged facilities, including the boom of a
By Peter Montague
Cancers diagnosed in children younger than 15 are increasing at about 1% per year in the US. (Charles W. Schmidt, "Childhood Cancer: A Growing Problem", Environmental Health Perspectives Vol. 106, No. 1, January 1998, pp.
By Sam King
Activists at Flinders University have formed a "Broad Left" ticket to contest the May 19-22 elections for the Student Association Coordinating Group (COG) and National Union of Students (NUS) delegates. The Broad Left's platform
Punishing the victims
On May 1, doctors in the public hospitals and one of the two private abortion clinics in WA stopped performing abortions.
These doctors do not oppose women's right to choose abortion. On the contrary, their vocal support
Mum Shirl: fighter for Aboriginal rights
"Mum Shirl" was born Colleen Shirley Perry on November 22, 1924, at Cowra, into what many whites accepted as preordained penury. Even the two surnames she bore were borrowed from an alien culture —
Racism in sentencing confirmed
By Sarah Peart
SYDNEY — Young Aborigines and Pacific Islanders are subjected to harsher sentences in NSW courts than young white people, a study just released has found. This confirms the direct experience of
Regarding the last 30 years
And so we go ever forward sentenced to make the best of what we find. The years pass and with their passing we may sometimes forget what we have won and lost. Yet, I cannot help feeling ...
— Is this going to
By Marina Carman
SYDNEY — On May 1, Luke Whitington from the Labor left was declared the new president of the University of Sydney Students Representative Council. An electoral appeal had previously removed the conservative Adair Durie, elected
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