The Australian Vice-Chancellors Committee has received legal advice from Minter Ellison that the government's voluntary student unionism (VSU) legislation may be unconstitutional. This is denied by education minister David Kemp, who claims that he
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Timorese meet to plan development policies
By Vannessa Hearman
MELBOURNE — About 100 people representing East Timorese communities, non-government organisations and international aid agencies met from April 5 to 9 to discuss policies to be put
Arrests at Jabiluka Westpac protests
By Jim Green
Protests outside three Westpac branches in Cairns, two in Brisbane and one each in Sydney, Surfers Paradise, Noosa and Canberra on April 13 continued the campaign to highlight the role of the
Ireland: impasse on the Good Friday agreement
The Irish peace process is again in crisis following the failure to meet a third deadline for the formation of a power-sharing executive before Easter. Loyalists are refusing to agree to the formation
Police reality check
By Stuart Munckton
If you are sick of the endless police dramas that fill our screens, whose primary function is to convince the working class that the police are good guys, then Irvine Welsh's novel Filth, published last
Comment by Allen Myers
The US/NATO military assault on Serbia represents a significant escalation of the attempt by the US and its allies to establish their role as "cops of the world". The war is intended, not only to strengthen the imperialists'
By Jonathan Singer
The two April 11 NSW Sunday papers carried the same screaming headline: "Invaded". What was the force and intent of this invasion? At last count, 59 people, sailing in a rusty tugboat, had apparently run aground in northern NSW.
Billy Bragg — this machine bombs Belgrade
By Sean Healy
There has been a soft spot for Billy Bragg in many socialists' hearts — certainly in mine. He's even produced a t-shirt acknowledging it: "Socialism of the heart", it reads. Over the
The day the war ends in Kosova
The day the war ends in Kosova will be a great day for all Slavs. A new age of peace will return to the Balkans, and our television sets will resume normal programming.
Unfortunately, as so often happens in war,
Devilishly clever
By Brandon Astor Jones
"Sarcasm ... [is] in general, the language of the Devil ... I have long since denounced it." — Thomas Carlyle Carlyle's words seem appropriate her. While we all have our own opinion about what is, or is
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