Student Environment conference
NEWCASTLE — More than 500 students have registered for this year's Students and Sustainability Conference to be held at the Newcastle University, Callaghan Campus, from July 2 to July 6. Students from around the
453
BY SEAN HEALY
If you've gotten used to the feel of the velvet glove around your throat, then get ready to kiss it good-bye — because if events in Gothenburg, Sweden, are anything to go by, the steel fist is making a comeback.
The shootings of
BY KYLIE MOON
Behind closed doors in its Geneva headquarters, out of view of the public eye, the World Trade Organisation is currently negotiating the expansion of GATS, the General Agreement on Trades in Services. The product of extensive
BY GARY MEYEHOFF
DARWIN — The Top End Users' Forum has voiced concerns at the Northern Territory government's efforts to pass new laws expanding police powers, calling them "vote-grabbing".
The Country Liberal Party has introduced draft
Defend us from the centre-left
"Every centre-left government in the world — except New Zealand — is spending more on defence." — New Zealand military commentator Graeme Hunt, attacking military cutbacks by the NZ government.
Or maybe his
BY SEAN WALSH
MELBOURNE — Two hundred protesters successfully blockaded the Nike superstore on Friday June 22, despite police attempts to disperse them. The weekly blockades, protesting Nike's extreme exploitation of workers in the Third World,
"M1 was a great, inspiring demonstration of people's power and of what we can achieve if we organise against corporate tyranny, whatever the odds. I think the most inspiring thing at M1 was the level of solidarity and unity among protesters, and the
BY ANDY GIANNIOTIS
KATOOMBA — "For decades people have been asking the Australian socialist left 'Why don't you people get together?'", Philippa Skinner, a homecare worker from Woodford, told the Blue Mountains launch of the Socialist Alliance on
BY JO WILLIAMS
MELBOURNE — The rapid expansion of Socialist Alliance is continuing, with the launch on July 18 of a new branch of the alliance in Melbourne's western suburbs.
The meeting, attended by more than 40 people, discussed how the
By Sophie Williams & Belinda Selke
"The shameful events of yesterday had nothing to do with democracy or individual freedoms." That was how NSW Premier Bob Carr described the June 20 trade union blockade of the NSW parliament imposed to stop his
Pages
