By Natasha Sinnett
HOBART — About 200 people attended the annual Queer Collaborations conference here on June 29-July 3. After the successful struggle by the Tasmanian Gay and Lesbian Group to have discriminatory state laws overturned in 1995,
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GLW is taking a break
Green Left Weekly is taking a one-week break so that the paper's contributors and distributors can attend the Resistance National Conference in Melbourne on July 11-13. The next issue will be dated July 22.
Socialists launch new e-mail bulletin
By Al McCall
As an adjunct to its political campaigns, the Democratic Socialists have launched an e-mail based information service. Called DS_NET, it is geared toward generating information about the work the
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Unions and the ALP
Referring to the recent Queensland elections and One Nation, Martin Thomas (GLW #321) says, "We have to turn around the trade unions to tackling the unemployment, poverty, and insecurity on which
By Sarah Cunningham and Tim E. Stewart
BRISBANE â Around 600 people rallied against One Nation in King
George Square on July 4. The rally heard speakers from Aboriginal organisations,
trade unions, migrant groups and socialist parties.
Pressure builds on Centrelink
By Bill Mason
Computer problems with the Newstart Common Platform dealing with processing unemployment and related benefits, and the introduction of the federal government's disastrous new Youth Allowance, have
By Keara Courtney and Becky Fairall Lee
SYDNEY — High school students here walked out of school on July 2 to attend a rally in opposition to the rise of Pauline Hanson and racism. The socialist youth organisation Resistance, which organised the
By Barry Sheppard
In a letter to managers, top General Motors executives have ordered all operations except those related to the company's new full-size pick-up truck halted, and all "non-essential" workers laid off, reports the Wall Street
By Paul Oboohov
CANBERRA — Following the dismantling of the CES, the staff remaining in the Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs voted 87.75% in favour of accepting some loss of conditions in a postal vote concluding on
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