Road to destroy coastal wetlands
By Peter McCallum
MACKAY — The Queensland government seems set to push ahead with a major new road in Mackay that will destroy 12.3 hectares of coastal wetlands, despite Environment Protection Agency (EPA)
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Iraq sanctions: a crime against humanity
By Susan Wareham
WALID spends most of his time on the streets of Baghdad. He is 14 years old and shines shoes each day to earn a meagre existence for his mother and brothers. If he had been born 10 years
Jazzed up, anti-racist and danced out
By Arun Pradhan
MELBOURNE — More than 400 people packed the Prince of Wales Hotel on June 16 to hear a range of artists perform in Green Left Weekly's Jazz Against Racism. The audience was treated to
'Brucegate' scandal spurs demand for Carnell to go
By James Vassilopoulos
CANBERRA — ACT Chief Minister Kate Carnell is embroiled in a major crisis which could result in her being sacked or her minority Liberal government being thrown out.
... and ain't I a woman?: Labor without a clue
Reading Martin Ferguson's preface to Labor Without Class: The Gentrification of the ALP by Michael Thompson, the latest offering to emerge from the "what is the true nature of the Labor Party"
By David Gosling
CANBERRA — More than 900 staff at the Australian National University voted overwhelmingly on June 24 to demand an enterprise bargaining agreement that guarantees no net job losses, maintenance of superannuation contributions and
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Flexible: The high level of youth unemployment acts as a pressure on young people to accept extremely poor workplace conditions and low wages. This means young people are more easily forced to accept jobs which are largely casual positions with
Eyewitness report on Indonesian elections
BRISBANE — Fifty people gathered in the Paddington Workers Club on April 24 to hear from Karen Fletcher and Graham Matthews, who recently returned from Indonesia. The new documentary Indonesia in
By Danny Fairfax
SYDNEY — Four hundred people packed the Globe Cinema on Friday, June 25, for the premiere of John Pilger's documentary The Timor Conspiracy, presented by Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor (ASIET) and Green Left
Camel trek fights nuclear dump
By Alistair Spong and Mel Bull
In mid-July, nine women — Humps not Dumps — will start a 1000-kilometre camel trek through the South Australian desert in order to raise awareness about the national radioactive
Candlelight march for political prisoners
By Rohan Gaiswinkler
DARWIN — A rally, candlelight march through the city streets and an overnight vigil outside the Indonesian consulate took place here on June 19-20. The events, organised by the East
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