BY MELANIE SJOBERG
SYDNEY — NSW Premier Bob Carr's Labor government calls its plan to cut 1000 jobs in the Department of Education and Training (DET) "lifelong and learning". However, public education needs more, not less, jobs. Students need
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BY JOHN NEBAUER& BRONWEN BEECHEY
ADELAIDE — More than 150 bus drivers went on strike here on July 25 and 600 on July 28. Their actions follow strikes earlier this month. Another strike is planned for August 4, with the the prospect of further
BY GRANT COLEMAN
The federal government's plans for higher education, contained in the package "Our universities: backing Australia's future", represent the most decisive step towards a tiered, privatised system since the abolition of free
BY NICK EVERETT
SYDNEY — A special meeting of the Walk Against the War Coalition, the group which organised the 500,000-strong February 16 anti-war rally, will be held to decide the coalition's future. The meeting will be on August 18.
Two of
BY DOUG LORIMER
On July 21, the first contingent of some 155 Australian Federal Police (AFP) and 1500 Australian Defence Force (ADF) personnel, including 200 combat troops, began departing for the Solomon Islands' capital of Honiara. They will be
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