By Jim Green
The federal government's plan to dump nuclear waste in northern South Australia may have to be scrapped because of fierce opposition in the state. Indicative of the opposition was the attendance of more than 900 people at a public
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Seafarers stop Adsteam tugs
By Robert Darcy
SYDNEY — Seafarers on Adsteam tugs struck on November 26 to oppose company attempts to cut crew numbers. Tugs operate with two deckhands, a master and an engineer; Adsteam wants the tug engineer to do
By Allen Myers
The harsh new restrictions introduced by the federal government cannot stop the flow of refugees. Restrictions can at most divert that flow — causing refugees to seek asylum in some other country. What is really going on is a
By Zanny Begg
On November 23, staff from the Faculty of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander STUDIES (FATSIS) received letters from the Northern Territory University stating that their jobs had been "disestablished". These redundancies are a
By Eva Cheng
Headed by the US, the rich countries will increase their plundering of the rest of the world if they have their way in the coming round of world trade haggling likely to take place in the next three years under the auspices of the
'Where did the opposition go?'
By Richard Ingram
"What ever happened to the federal opposition? There was talk about one shortly after the 1996 election, but nobody's heard a peep out of anything that could be called an opposition for months now.
Feeling SexyWritten and Directed by Davina AllenProduced by Glenys RoweOpens nationally December 23 Review by Melanie Sjoberg
This film offers a promising journey into the passionate world of fantasy and young love intruded upon by the harsh
Senate rejects support for West Papua
By Leigh Hughes
CANBERRA — The Coalition and Labor have both voted against a Senate motion, put by Greens Senator Bob Brown on November 23, which would have recognised the overwhelming support for
By John Burke
DARWIN â This year's major review of indigenous education in the Northern Territory by former NT senator Bob Collins reiterated that the problems facing indigenous people are systemic, bridging justice, health, housing and education
By Zanny Begg
In Green Left Weekly issue #384, Resistance magazine carried an article, by me, which looked at some of the key ideas of "autonomist Marxism". The piece focused on the ideas of US theorist Harry Cleaver, an enthusiastic proponent of
World's harshest refugee laws
By Iggy Kim
With last week's passing of the Border Protection Bill by the federal Coalition and Labor parties, Hansonism became law. Australia now ranks as the most anti-refugee among the wealthy, predatory countries
Doomadgee crisis a product of racist system
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — On November 21, 12 nurses and doctors withdrew their services from a hospital in the Doomadgee Aboriginal community, in the Gulf region of north Queensland. The incident is a
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