BY DICK NICHOLS
With each new comment on the Australian economy, smug federal treasurer Peter Costello becomes even more smug. "Look at my beautiful numbers", he seems to purr. "Real wages are increasing and yet inflation is contained at 2.6%. And
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BY SUE BOLTON
On November 20, ABC Radio's PM program and most TV network news programs reported that Australian Manufacturing Workers Union national secretary Doug Cameron had been punched on the nose outside his home on November 18. On November
BY NICK FREDMAN
In the face of broad opposition to the attacks on higher education contained in last May's federal budget, education minister Brendan Nelson has announced numerous, if minor, concessions hoping to win over top university bureaucrats
BY TAMARA PEARSON
SYDNEY — Fancy-suited councillors grumbled about feeling "intimidated" when protesters packed into an Auburn council meeting on November 19 to oppose the construction of a waste compacting plant at the former Clyde rail yards,
BY ALISON DELLIT
"I hate to disappoint your readers", an earnest David Barsamian told Green Left Weekly on November 6, "but most Americans are not genetically ignorant. For people to believe that Iraq is about to attack them, that they are
BY MARCUS GREVILLE& JULIAN COPPENS
LONDON — In a tremendous display of opposition to US President George Bush's and British Prime Minister Tony Blair's invasion and occupation of Iraq, a vast crowd — estimates vary between 200,000 and 300,000
BY MARCUS GREVILLE& JULIAN COPPENS
LONDON — Australians Against the War (AATW) on November 20 held a successful demonstration outside the Australian High Commission to protest against the Australian government's participation in the US-led
MELBOURNE — Protesters at a lunchtime picket of the immigration department offices on November 15. The picket was organised by the Socialist Alliance to protest the towing out to sea of a boat with 14 Kurdish refugees that landed on Melville Island
BY NORM DIXON
On November 11, the people of the Dominican Republic staged a 24-hour general strike in protest at the government's neoliberal policies. Ten people were killed by police, 60 wounded and more than 1000 detained.
Narciso Isa Conde,
BY EVA CHENG
South Korea's workers have launched a wave of industrial action in response to repressive labour laws which are aimed at helping local and foreign capitalists undermine workers' wages and conditions. Workers' resistance has been met
BY MARCE CAMERON
BRISBANE — Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) activist Danny Dougherty was elected state secretary of the printing division of the union's Queensland branch on November 18.
Dougherty comfortably won the postal
BY LISA MACDONALD
A whirlwind speaking tour by Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) member of parliament Colin Fox left a trail of inspiration and optimism along the east coast of Australia last week.
Fox, one of six SSP activists elected to the
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