BY SIMON BUTLER
BALLARAT — The 2000 National Union of Students national conference, held here from December 11-15, closed in tumult and chaos, with members of the National Broad Left, the Labor left and the Labor right factions hurling abuse, and
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REVIEW BY STEPHEN LANGFORD
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BY PETER ELLETT & ANDREW HALL
CANBERRA — In a move that has shocked historians, academics and researchers across Australia, the Australian National University (ANU) has slashed funding to the country's largest archive of business and labour
BY KATHY NEWNAM
ADELAIDE — The trials of refugees charged with involvement in the alleged August "riots" at the Woomera Immigration Detention Centre, in the South Australian desert, began here on December 18. The case against the first defendant,
BY MAX LANE
The process of overthrowing the Suharto dictatorship did not go sufficiently deep enough to deliver a deathblow to the political ambitions of the old regime, of Suharto's former ruling party, Golkar, and the armed forces, the TNI.
The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union launched its national "pattern bargaining" Campaign 2001 at rallies in Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide on December 6. Campaign 2001 is raising a set of demands for inclusion in enterprise agreements being
BY KAREN FLETCHER
BRISBANE — A social services wing of the Uniting Church has cut the wages and conditions of its disability support workers by moving them from their current award to a lower-paid state award.
The rates of pay in the state
BY ALISON DELLIT
With its December 14 response to the final report of the Reference Group on Welfare Reform, the McClure report, the federal government has taken a giant step down its desired path of restructuring the entire welfare system.
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BY MALIK MIAH
George W. Bush became the 43rd president of the United States by a five-to-four vote of the US Supreme Court. But the die was cast long before the November 7 election.
One of the dirty aspects of the 2000 presidential elections was
BY NINA LANSBURY
Australian mining companies and the University of Tasmania are set to play an integral role in the mineral future of Chinese-occupied Tibet. The Tanjianshan gold deposit, lying within northern Tibet's Chokle Namgyal mountain range,
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