BY LISA MACDONALD
SYDNEY — The 1500 local residents who rallied in Mona Park, Auburn, on February 23 sent a clear message to the NSW Labor government: no new waste dump in Sydney's western suburbs!
The rally was called to oppose the building of
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BY KERRY VERNON
BRISBANE — "It is with deep disappointment and sadness that we announce the closure of the Domestic Violence Resource Centre's statewide functions due to a decision by the Queensland minister of families and the department of
BY MELANIE SJOBERG
SYDNEY — The M1 collective is organising a peaceful blockade of Australasian Correctional Management, which runs Australia's refugee detention centres, at 8am on May 1, kicking off a day of action for global justice and peace
BY KATE WILSON
More than 650 young people have joined the socialist youth group Resistance since January, 465 of them students who joined from stalls at campus orientation weeks.
Resistance's national coordinator, Simon Butler, told Green Left
BY ROHAN PEARCE
On March 5, a group of Palestinian school children sent a letter to US President George Bush, in which they wrote, "[E]ven our parents' comforting does not free us from the horror we live on a daily basis, the images of funerals,
BY KAMALA EMANUEL
HOBART — "The problem of Afghanistan is a political one. It won't be solved with aid. As long as warlordism continues, there will be no real solution", Tahmeena Faryal, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan
BY ALISON DELLIT
A decade after a federal ALP government began the process of deregulating domestic air travel and privatising government-owned airlines, safety standards have fallen, services to regional areas are in crisis, airline workers who
'Non-thinkers'
Referring to his decision not to dismiss Dr Hollingworth, the PM has expressed the belief that "thinking people understand that I have reached a correct judgment".
To write-off around 55% of the population as "non-thinkers" is
BY NGLINTING DARMONO
YOGYAKARTA — Two hundred protesters from across central Java gathered in Yogyakarta on March 8 to mark International Women's Day.
The protesters marched from Gadjah Mada University to the regional parliament. Their demands
BY SIMON DIVECHA
BHP Billiton is attempting to wash its hands of responsibility for 10 years' damage caused by its Ok Tedi gold and copper mine in Papua New Guinea.
The company is putting its majority share in Ok Tedi Mining Ltd into a holding
Bus drivers strike for better pay
SYDNEY — Government bus services in Sydney and Newcastle stopped for 48 hours on March 6-7, as drivers and maintenance workers took strike action over pay.
The strike was called after the Rail, Tram and Bus
Afghan, Iraqi events
SYDNEY — Around 60 people gathered in Parramatta Town Hall on March 8 for a "Women's rights are human rights" dinner organised by the worker-communist parties of Iraq and Iran. The next night, around 200 members of the Afghan
Socialists picket Bracks
MELBOURNE — Supporters of the Socialist Alliance held a rally outside the Treasury Place office of Victorian Labor Premier Steve Bracks on March 5, protesting at the government's failure to reverse service cuts carried
Sacrificed on the altar of imperialism
It is more dangerous, but at the end of the day ... the sure way to
work against the enemy is to put people on the ground, General Tommy Franks,
the commander of Washington's war in Afghanistan,
BY ROHAN PEARCE
According to the Israeli interior ministry, the demand for gun permits rose 75% over the last year.
In 2001, 7790 people applied for permits — almost twice the number of applications in 2000. In January of this year alone, 879
Museworthy: Silence and its Answer
The uprooting of words
took place here
in the country with no tongue
The most silent of plants
grows here
It is an animal
that turns its belly
to the blade
and faces with the heart's generic
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