By Jim Green
Behind the federal government's plan to build a new nuclear research reactor lie a set of national interest/security arguments. Essentially, the government wants to maintain a pool of nuclear expertise in order to monitor nuclear
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By Barry Sheppard
As the 190,000 idled General Motors workers were returning to work following the end of the strikes at two plants in Flint, Michigan, management announced that GM would sell off its parts subsidiary, Delphi. This move ups the ante
Northcote rally against racism
By Ben Reid
MELBOURNE — Two hundred people rallied against racism and One Nation in Northcote on August 8. The rally was part of the Democratic Socialists' by-election campaign. With no Liberal candidate in the
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Your government wants to spend $10 million of taxpayers' money to tell you why we need a GST. What could be more appropriate than using tax money to raise new taxes?
But some selfish spoilsports are trying to stop
Watch out: here comes another 'reform'
We've had years of economic "reform" — deregulation and privatisation to benefit big business at the expense of the rest of us. We've had workplace "reform" — restrictions on workers' rights to organise
Freeing China's Farmers: Rural Restructuring in the Reform EraBy David ZweigME Sharpe, 1997. 365 pp., $45 Review by Eva Cheng
The title of David Zweig's book, Freeing China's Farmers, is consistent with one of its main underlying assertions — the
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In peace we coloured the camping groundin harmony we moved boldly on the tar.In dust and warm dry air we cared for our selves,in horror we looked on those faces of scornSun shaded blind eyed, stick figures of the long arm.
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CPSU funding cuts
In July, members of the Community and Public Sector Union ACT branch rejected a proposal by the union's national officers that the national union take over the organising of major agencies currently covered by the ACT branch. In a
Population policy: no answer to environmental problems
By Francesca Davis
Opposition leader Kim Beazley on August 3 responded to the focus on immigration occasioned by Pauline Hanson and One Nation by renewing the ALP's call for a population
SA workers to support anti-racism rally
By Emma Webb
ADELAIDE — The South Australian United Trades and Labour Council has voted to call a two-hour stop-work on August 28, from 2 to 4pm, in solidarity with high school students walking out of
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