By Sarah Stephen
PERTH — Five people are now facing trial for the murder of 14-year-old Aboriginal boy Cleon Jackman after his battered body was found on May 22. Jackman is believed to have been beaten and strangled to death after he was
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By Trish Corcoran
MELBOURNE — On May 21, 150 people attended an Earthworker public meeting featuring Jack Mundey. Earthworker is a Melbourne-based organisation that mobilises trade unionists around environmental issues. Many of the objectives of
New push on health care privatisation
By Jonathan Singer
"Even though the federal government sticks to the line that Medicare is safe, what is happening is the privatisation of the health system. The push is on for everyone to pay for their
By Michael Karadjis
There is considerable contention on the left about the Kosova Liberation Army's relationship to NATO and position in the Balkans war. It is charged of being an extreme nationalist organisation that would "slaughter" the Serbs if
Niddrie residents oppose toxic dump
By Chris Spindler
MELBOURNE — Hot on the heels of the victory against the proposed CSR toxic dump at Werribee, residents at Niddrie in Melbourne's west are opposing a proposed toxic dump in a disused quarry.
By Eva Cheng
Two days after the close of the May 12-16 rolling general strike led by hospital and metalworkers, the South Korean government issued arrest warrants for many union leaders, including those who led the nine-day subway workers' general
By Melanie Sjoberg
ADELAIDE — Two hundred people attended a SA United Trades and Labor Council (UTLC) public meeting on May 21 to hear Jennie George, ACTU president, speak on the latest round of changes to the federal industrial relations laws
By Nick Southall and Justin Randell
WOLLONGONG — More than 100 people gathered on May 29 at Allen Street Park for the Port Kembla Loitering Festival. The festival was organised by Illawarra Community Action for Public Space (ICAPS) to protest
Sorry Day: no healing without justice
Comment by Margaret Allum
May 26 was the first anniversary of Sorry Day, a day to mark the
plight of the stolen generations: For most of this century (until the
early 1970s in some states) the
Antarctic meltdown: can we stop it in time?
By Norm Dixon
You stumble out of bed in bare feet to make that pot of coffee to start the heart, you approach the fridge and — step in a huge puddle of chilly water. Somebody didn't shut the fridge
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