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Ruddock's cunning plan
Philip Ruddock and his team in the government's immigration department have concocted a cunning plan to stop refugees from making the desperate journey to Australia by sea.
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Not good enough
The ALP's persistent refusal to repeal the GST when it next forms federal government is not good enough.
There is already abundant evidence that the GST, even accompanied by income tax cuts, will make most people worse off. For
Up close and pass the deodorant
Viewing Blue PolesBy Christos TsiolkasBelvoir Street Downstairs, SydneyUntil July 16 Review by Brendan Doyle
The 80-seat downstairs theatre at Belvoir Street, one of the few intimate theatre spaces left in Sydney,
The Olympics won't benefit Sydney
BY MARINA CARMAN
SYDNEY — The mass media awash with pictures of the Olympics torch winding its way around the country. There are excited countdowns of the number of "sleeps" before the Olympic Games begin. And
BY SUSAN PRICE
Women today face a concerted ideological backlash and escalating attacks on our rights as the leaders of neo-liberalism attempt to eradicate many of the hard won gains of the second wave of the women's liberation movement in the
The first issue of RESIST!, "North America's only independent Marxist-feminist magazine", was released on June 15. The Canadian magazine is the work of the Resistance Collective, which is seeking to build a new, revitalised socialist organisation in
Shop stewards endorse Campaign 2000 settlement
BY CHRIS SPINDLER
MELBOURNE — Meetings of Metal Trades Federation of Unions shop stewards here on June 21 and 22 have endorsed a deal brokered between the MTFU and a group of breakaway employers
With the introduction of the GST on July 1, we will be forced to increase the price of Green Left Weekly. This will be the first price increase for GLW since August 1995.
Through the GST, the government will take one 11th of GLW's sales income. As
VIENNA — Austria's government — a coalition of the conservative People's Party (VP) and the extreme right-wing, racist Freedom Party (FP) — is showing its true colours. The FP managed to overtake the VP at last October's federal election by a
BY JONATHAN SINGER
A payroll worker in the banking industry recently told me, "We're well-paid, but we're not paid for overtime. We work until the job's done." That's become a common experience over the 1990s. In the 1980s, real earnings fell but,
INDONESIA: Situation explosive as economic and political crisis deepens
The 10 years to 1998 was a decade of escalating mass protest in Indonesia, climaxing in the 1998 mobilisations of hundreds of thousands of people across the archipelago which
BY BILL MASON
BRISBANE — Residents of Springbrook, in the Gold Coast hinterland, have vowed to fight tooth and nail against a proposed Naturelink tourist cableway in the region. Thirty of them protested outside a June 18 meeting attended by
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