BY JIM MCILROY
BRISBANE — Community and Public Sector Union members in Centrelink offices and call centres around the country met during the week of March 19-23 to vote on a resolution from their union to launch a "community based campaign" to
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BY JOHN GAUCI
SYDNEY — The large turnout of 230 people for a March 17 dinner and public meeting here on issue "Free Aceh, Referendum now!" is an indication of growing interest in the struggle in Aceh among the Australian public.
The event was
BY SEAN HEALY
Peter Costello's 1995 comment about a weak Australian dollar needs one small but important revision: devaluation impoverishes every working-class person in Australia. For owners of capital, especially those who own assets in foreign
BY EVA CHENG
The pro-business reality of the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement hit home forcefully in August when the Mexican government was ordered by a NAFTA tribunal to pay nearly US$16.7 million to US waste disposal Metalclad
A former member of the Labour Party's national executive committee, Liz Davies, has announced her resignation from the Labour Party after two decades of membership, and declared her support for the Socialist Alliance and other left candidates in the
BY VIV MILEY
The evidence is mounting that university students are paying too
much for higher education and the federal government spending too little,
with a senior university administrator backing such claims by the union
which
BY ROBERTO JORQUERA
PERTH — Organisers of the M1 blockade of the Australian Stock Exchange here have added an end-of-day march to state parliament house to their plans. The new Labor state government of Geoff Gallop will be sworn in on that day.
Sabotage of Fair Employment Bill
MELBOURNE On March 20, 150 people protested against attempts by the Liberal
and National parties to block the Fair Employment Bill from passing through
the Victorian parliaments upper house.
The
Starting March 27, a United States court in Washington, DC, will hear evidence that Indonesian General Johnny Lumintang is responsible for gross human rights violations and crimes against humanity committed in East Timor. The proceeding will
BY RUTH RATCLIFFE
DARWIN — In the absence of a local stock exchange, the M1 Alliance here has decided to blockade the offices of the Northern Territory Chamber of Commerce and Industry, due to its anti-worker stance and its self-declared role as
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