BY FEDERICO FUENTES
Student activists at Melbourne University are determined to defend fellow students who face disciplinary action, even expulsion, over their part in an April 5 protest against university privatisation - and have appealed for
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Asylum seekers
The vilification of asylum seekers as "queue jumpers" continues. How hypocritical is it that this epithet comes from people who have never queued. Most Australians either had the good fortune to simply be born here, or had access to
BY EWAN SAUNDERS
BRISBANE — Plans are well underway for a mass people's march and convergence on the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in October after more than 30 anti-corporate, environmental, indigenous and social justice activists
BY SEAN HEALY
@box text intr = In order to qualify for what debt relief is on offer, poor countries must jump through many hoops.
Qualify as "IDA": In order to qualify for debt relief, a Third World country must first be deemed eligible for
Founding conference approaches
Socialist Alliance will hold a founding national conference in Melbourne on August 4-5.
The conference will adopt a platform and constitution for the alliance, and discuss the coming federal elections. Vigorous
BY MELANIE SJOBERG
"Balaclava-clad hoons", "busted-up offices", "terrorised staff", "union officials arrested" — these are the lurid makings of a corporate media scare campaign against the leaders of the militant Victorian branch of the
BY NORM DIXON
JOHANNESBURG — A political publicity stunt by the Pan Africanist Congress has snowballed into a major confrontation between homeless and land hungry people and the African National Congress government. The failure of the ANC to
"For those who've come across the seas, we've boundless plains to share." — From Advance Australia Fair.
It's an irony that despite the refrain of the Australian national anthem, many people express alarm and fear about an immigration policy
BY JEREMY SMITH
The campaign by the National Tertiary Education Union to defend sacked University of Wollongong academic Ted Steele went to the Federal Court on July 5. The union claims the dismissal breaches the university's enterprise agreement;
"Woman hurt in sex attack — Don't walk in city alone at night", "Intruder sat on naked woman", "Woman jogger brutally bashed" — just a few examples of the lurid accounts of violence against women featured almost every day in the only widely and
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