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ADELAIDE — Unprecedented strike action by more than 15,000 state public servants will shut down many offices and services on March 26, in protest at the state government's failure to improve its pay and conditions offer. The state government is
End the occupation! In 2003, a clear majority opposed Australia joining the US in its war for oil in Iraq. The contemptuous Howard government retorted that removing Saddam Hussein was a matter of urgency because its "weapons of mass destruction"
Eva Cheng The re-emergence of concurrent deficits in the external current account and the federal budget of the United States — dubbed the "twin deficits" — and the likelihood of them continuing to grow for a long time, has reignited a debate
Jody Betzien, Melbourne On December 31, Victorian housing minister Candy Broad released a consultation document on the government's Strategy for growth in housing for low-income Victorians. While Broad claims the strategy, which involves the
Australia, NSW in particular, has been internationally praised for sex industry reform and maintaining one of the lowest HIV rates of any sex industry in the world. However, Erica Red and Saul Isbister, winners of the NSW World Aids Day 2002
Chris Slee, Melbourne Speaking to at least 500 people at a public meeting at Melbourne University on March 11, British freelance journalist Yvonne Ridley detailed the lies and manipulation of the media by the US and British governments during the
Maria Voukelatos US Senator John Kerry, now the sole Democratic Party candidate in this November's US presidential election, has called for an expansion of the US Army by an extra 40,000 "active service" troops. Kerry's call reflects a growing
Ben Reid, Newcastle A wave of disgust and some resignations from the National Tertiary Education Union have swept academic staff at the Newcastle University as a result of NTEU branch president Wayne Reynolds' support for increased HECS fees for
James Balowski, Jakarta One thousand people from the Indonesian capital and the satellite cities of Bogor, Bekasi and Tangerang commemorated International Women's Day (IWD) with a march from the Hotel Indonesia roundabout to the offices of the
Seventy per cent of Iraqi workers — about 10 million people — are unemployed. Many are now organising in the Unemployed Union of Iraq. In February, the UUI appointed Jalal Mohamad its official representative in Australia. Socialist Alliance

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