"I wish them the actuarial tables in Cuba". That was the parting wish that outgoing US secretary of state Madeleine Albright extended to the new administration of George W Bush, during a January 10 media conference in Washington.
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BY GRANT COLEMAN
PERTH — The Western Australian Liberal government has called a snap state election for February 10. The Democratic Socialists will be running Anthony Benbow in the seat of Fremantle and Roberto Jorquera in seat of Perth.
The
BY SUE BOLAND
It is just a little over 12 months since the protests against the
World Trade Organisation (WTO) meeting in Seattle awoke the world to the
gathering strength of a new anti-corporate movement against neo-liberal
BY NORM DIXON
The low level of participation by voters in the December 5 South African municipal elections reflects a growing dissatisfaction among workers and poor at the African National Congress (ANC) government's repeated failure to keep its
BY JACQUI LEE
PERTH — The lack of funding and resources has led to a crisis in Western Australia's hospital system. In the face of low pay and an ever-increasing workload, many nurses are leaving for better paid jobs.
Nurses are to take action
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 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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BY KERRYN WILLIAMS
"We see the potential energy among urban poor youth, whose power has been shown many times in Indonesian history. They are brave, energetic and not afraid of new ideas and changes. We are trying to build their trust in the idea
BY PETER BOYLE
Activists in every capital city in Australia have begun organising
around calls for a worker-student strike and blockade of the stock exchanges
on May 1. The M1 coalitions have brought together veterans of the S11 blockade
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 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.
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