By Sue Boland
Any indirect tax, like the Coalition's planned goods and services tax, is inherently inequitable because it taxes every individual at the same rate on their purchases, regardless of capacity to pay. Moreover, low income earners have
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Cycle Against the Nuclear Cycle
LATE ON July 23, 17 bicyclists from Cycle Against the Nuclear Cycle ended the second leg of their mammoth trek to the blockade against the Jabiluka uranium mine, when they arrived in Alice Springs. The cyclists have
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Pesticides may impair children's brain function
Dramatic deficits in brain function are seen in rural children with long-term exposure to pesticides compared with children not similarly exposed, according to a recent study in the US publication
By Regan Davis and Tim E. Stewart
BRISBANE — "Anti-racists on your feet! Join the march on Boundary Street". This was the call of Democratic Socialists as they marched through cosmopolitan West End here on June 25.
Chants of "Hanson, Howard,
Latin America fiesta benefits health in Cuba
By Lynda Hansen
BRISBANE — More than 200 people attended the Committee in Solidarity with Latin America and the Caribbean's (CISLAC) annual fiesta fundraiser on July 18. The funds raised on the
Spreading protests undermine Indonesian military
By Max Lane
Eight weeks after the forced resignation of President Suharto, a strong campaign by human rights groups has forced the Habibie-Wiranto regime to admit that the elite commando corps,
By Sarah Lantz
The youth allowance, introduced on July 1, was sold by the federal government as "more flexible" and "simpler". In fact, it is yet another attempt to regulate, normalise and circumscribe the "deviant". The tight eligibility criteria
Punishing the poor
The Pauline Hanson/John Howard/Bettina Arndt pact has been sealed in blood. Not their blood, of course, but that of sole mothers who are being sacrificed on the altar of "family values". Hanson on July 16 called for the
Media beat-up on anti-Hanson 'violence'
By Trish Corcoran
MELBOURNE — The 2000 anti-racists who gathered at the Hawthorn Town Hall to protest outside a meeting to be addressed by Pauline Hanson on July 19 outnumbered those who came to hear her