BY DOUG LORIMER
"Nothing dramatises the criminally anti-social nature of the Howard-Costello government so much as the federal treasurer's latest budget", Socialist Alliance national co-convener Lisa Macdonald told Green Left Weekly.
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BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS
MELBOURNE — Australian and international delegates met at the "Keep space for peace" conference on May 17-18 to discuss greater cooperation of the international peace movement, especially to combat the increasing militarisation
BY CHRIS SLEE
MELBOURNE — Medical care is "a right not a privilege", declared Victorian Trades Hall Council secretary Leigh Hubbard on May 14. Hubbard was launching a campaign to defend and extend Medicare.
Hubbard said people need to "get out
BY ALISON DELLIT
Federal Greens politicians have condemned the government's federal budget, Greens Senator Bob Brown describing it as "bereft of humanity and environmental responsibility".
Brown said that the budget would deepen the divide
BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS
MELBOURNE — In a "private settlement", three Victorian unions have agreed to pay $300,000 in fines to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) for violating the secondary boycott provisions of the Trade
BY LISA MACDONALD
SYDNEY — Treasurer Peter Costello's 2003 budget was giving a caning at a "People's reply to the budget" on May 16. At the meeting, organised by the Socialist Alliance, a range of speakers described the greater disadvantage and
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On June 3, the Sharia Court of Appeal of Katsina State in Nigeria will hear an appeal from Amina Lawal, who is fighting for her life after being convicted of adultery last August by an upper area court in Katsina because she gave birth to a child
[In the March NSW election, the Greens almost tripled their vote, in an indication of significant national growth for that party. Local activist SYLVIA HALE joined Lee Rhiannon and Ian Cohen as an MLC. This Hale's first speech to the NSW parliament,
BY PETER ROBSON
Filled with confidence from its apparent "success" in waging war on Iraq, the Howard Coalition government has began another assault on public services. Higher education in particular is under attack, with the worst proposals from
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