John Pilger
Once again, the neat, placid surface of white Australia is disturbed by those who owned and cared for this country and remain its internal exiles.
On February 15, a crowd of Aboriginal youths set fire to a railway station and fought
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MELBOURNE — On February 23, 200 people attended a rally at Telstra's Melbourne headquarters, called by the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU), to protest against the planned transfer of information technology jobs to India.
CPSU national
Barry Sheppard, San Francisco
Prominent consumers' rights advocate Ralph Nader's decision to stand in the November US presidential election as an independent is freaking out Democratic Party and its liberal and leftist hangers-on. While claiming to
In this interview by Eduardo Jimanez Garcia, which first appeared in Alma Mater, the journal of the University of Havana, Mariela Castro Espin, the director of the Cuban National Institute for Sex Education (CENESEX), advocates an amendment to the
Susan Price, Sydney
The death of 17-year-old TJ Hickey on February 15, and the subsequent explosion of community anger in Redfern — sparked by police provocation on top of decades of police violence and racism — has been seized upon by NSW
Tariq Ali
The whole world knows that US President George Bush and British PM Tony Blair lied to justify the war, but do they know the price being paid on the ground in Iraq?
First, the blood price — paid by civilians and others every week. More
Mary Merkenich, Melbourne
On March 3, Victorian public school teachers and their colleagues from the Catholic school system will stop work for one day. This collaborative action is unprecedented and is a sign of the desperation that teachers feel
Robyn Marshall, Brisbane
The Liquor, Hospitality, and Miscellaneous Workers Union is taking an equity case to the industrial court to improve wages and conditions for childcare workers.
The childcare industry is dominated by women workers, and
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The following letter was sent by the Western Suburbs Community Campaign Against Racism (to the residents of the Redfern Block in mid-February.
Dear friends,
We wish to express our condolences to the family and friends of Thomas "TJ" Hickey. This
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