Rally for women's right to choose
By Lara Pullin
CANBERRA — Despite rain, 500 protesters gathered in Garema Place at lunchtime on September 23 to call on members of the ACT Legislative Assembly to vote against MLA Paul Osborne's attempt to
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Hundreds rally against insurance companies
By Andrew Hall
WOLLONGONG — Angry at insurance companies' refusal to pay for internal and external damage caused by freak storms here on August 17, more than 300 people marched through the city on
Why BHP should be nationalised
By Geoff Payne
NEWCASTLE — In September 1999, the last billet of steel will roll out of the bloomcaster. More than 80 years of steel making in Newcastle will end, and thousands of jobs will be lost. At a public
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By Peter Boyle
If one thing is predictable about the October 3 election, it is that the winning party will not have the enthusiastic support of a majority of people. Labor or Coalition will have been pushed over the line mainly by the fear
By Eva Cheng
South Korea's Federation of Bank and Financial Labour Unions (KFBU) has called on its 110,000 members to join an unlimited strike to start on September 29. The strike aims to save the jobs of nearly 28,700 members. The KFBU is
The left in the federal election
There are six socialist groups contesting the election with a total of 38 candidates. The Democratic Socialists have by far the largest team with 12 Senate candidates covering every state and House of Representative
By Greg Adamson
In the last three decades, Australian secondary students have stood up for their rights time after time. In many, probably most cases, secondary student activists in Resistance have been among their leaders. In every case, charges
By Jennifer Long
SYDNEY — The aroma of one of the federal election's neglected issues is seeping through the cracks of the Liberal and Labor campaign bunkers: the continuing saga of the Sydney airport. Residents in Sydney's inner-west and eastern
By Vannessa Hearman
MELBOURNE — Victorian premier Jeff Kennett has recently returned from a tour of south-east Asia. On September 17, he said that he had offered the Indonesian regime aid to get through the economic crisis. Kennett offered to
By John Percy
SYDNEY — "Bury MAI" was the title of a September 25 public meeting here to discuss the implications of the proposed Multilateral Agreement on Investment. The MAI, which is being negotiated by countries, including Australia,
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