BY BARBARA WHELAN
PERTH — Residents of Burt Way, East Perth are outraged over Perth City Council's plan to demolish the housing in their street to make way for luxury high rise apartments.
Local resident Karen Kinsett told Green Left Weekly
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RU486
Over the last decade the ability of women to access abortion services in Australia has become increasingly difficult due to government funding cutbacks and protests by the religious right outside abortion clinics.
In this context the
Who knows internet business?
The purpose of business is profits. A few years ago that would
have been a controversial statement, drawing replies of companies invest
for the national good or something similar. Today every government and
BY ROBERT DARCY
New Zealand's Waterfront Workers Union (WWU) is locked in a major dispute with forestry giant Carter Holt Harvey (CHH) over the contracting of cheap labour to load log ships in South Island ports. Over the last three months pickets
BY ALISON DELLIT
Following her participation in the September 26 protests in Prague against the meetings of International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, Felicity Martin decided upon her return to Australia she would join the Democratic Socialist
Unearth ThisOb(zine) Blue Mountains/western Sydney music compilationAvailable from PO Box 300, Blaxland NSW 2774 or <http://fly.to/obzine>
BY BARRY HEALY
This collection of 17 tracks by different bands from the western Sydney/Blue
BY CHRISTOPHER PERKINS
WOLLONGONG — Teachers and library staff at TAFE's Illawarra Institute of Technology are taking action against attacks which have flowed from repeated budget cuts by the NSW Labor government.
TAFE library staff, members of
BY BILL MASON
BRISBANE — Traditional dances were performed outside Cairns District Court on January 31 to celebrate the acquittal of two Torres Strait Islanders charged with robbing a group of commercial fishers.
Benjamin Ali Nona and George
BY JOHN PILGER
On the eve of an election campaign, the government of British Prime Minister Tony Blair is attempting, with mounting desperation, to suppress a scandal potentially greater than the arms-to-Iraq cover-up. This is the deaths of
BY JONATHAN STRAUSS
PORTO ALEGRE Cuban National Assembly president Ricardo Alarcon
reaffirmed the internationalist and socialist perspective of the Cuban
Revolution in a speech from the chair of a thematic panel at the World
Social Forum
BY ANDY GIANNIOTIS
SYDNEY With the demise of the Refugee Action Collective, members
of the International Federation of Iraqi and Iranian Refugees (IFIR), the
Democratic Socialist Party (DSP) and independent anti-racist activists
have
BY KAREN FLETCHER
BRISBANE — The Brisbane M1 Alliance has pledged to build a peaceful mass blockade of the Brisbane office of the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) on May 1 and bring the business of neo-liberal globalisation to a standstill for a
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