Eva Cheng
Hong Kong's recently elected pro-worker parliamentarian Leung Kwok-Hung, known as Long Hair, has overcome one threat to his elected position, only to have more descend.
After being elected to the Legislative Council (the territory's
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Kathy Newnam, Darwin
Postgraduate students at Charles Darwin University have declared their determination to continue to fight university management attempts to relocate 35 postgraduate research students to what they are calling "holding pens".
Alison Dellit
As the dust settled on PM John Howard's decisive victory, across Australia social justice activists have been trying to make sense of the election outcome. This discussion has not been restricted to the opinion pages of the print
Coming out of the October 9 federal elections, it seems that Family First candidate Steven Fielding may have the balance of power in the Senate, after receiving just 42,560 votes, because most parties, including Labor and the Democrats, preferenced
Doug Lorimer
The Los Angeles Times has reported that US officials have told it the Bush administration has decided to delay a major offensive to recapture rebel Iraqi cities until after the November 2 US presidential election.
A week earlier,
Rachel Evans, Sydney
On October 11, 200 people packed out Gleebooks for the launch of Bob Brown: Gentle Revolutionary by James Norman. With the Greens consolidating as the third force in Australian parliamentary politics, the book's timely release
PM John Howard now claims a mandate for a raft of reactionary measures that he didn't even mention during the federal election campaign.
Before polling it was all about security, trust and "rewards". Just four days after the election, treasurer
Sarah Stephen
On October 14, the immigration department deported MK, an Iranian Christian, from the Baxter detention centre in South Australia. Australia is the only country that deports asylum seekers to Iran.
"Immigration minister [Amanda]
Lisa Macdonald
In early September, National Party leader and deputy prime minister John Anderson said of the Australian Greens: "This idea that they are some warm, nice midway house between the Coalition and the Labor Party overlooks the fact that
Sarah Stephen
In the days following the re-election of the Coalition government, the corporate press crowed about Howard's fresh mandate for reform. The October 11 Australian Financial Review editorial argued that PM John Howard "now has a thumping
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