WOLLONGONG — With only a few days' notice, 700 people protested PM John Howard's visit on October 18, when he opened the office of a local Liberal MP. The South Coast Labor Council coordinated the action and contingents from many unions
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Sarah Stephen
Following a coordinated series of raids by Australian Federal Police and immigration department (DIMIA) officers on houses in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane last December 1, four refugee supporters in Sydney were charged with helping
Peter Woodward
$484.40
That's the weekly rate an employer will be able to pay an adult employee under John Howard's new industrial laws in John Howard's new Australia.
"But why can't they pay me that now?" you may ask. Because most people are
Sean Seymour Jones, Melbourne
It is becoming more and more obvious that the so-called war on terror is being used in countries like Australia as a pretext for significant attacks on civil liberties. The Australian government has tried to sell these
John Pilger
"The propagandist's purpose", wrote Aldous Huxley, "is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human". The British, who invented modern war propaganda and inspired Joseph Goebbels, were specialists in the
Ike Okonta, Lagos
It's nearly 10 years since Nigerian activist and writer Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other members of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) were hanged on the morning of November 10, 1995. Today, Nigeria faces fresh
Kathy Newnam, Darwin
Opponents of the nuclear industry took their message to the federal parliamentary inquiry into uranium resources when it met in Darwin on October 24. Deceptively calling itself "the inquiry into developing Australia's
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Pip Hinman
It seems that PM John Howard is keen to make Melbourne Cup week this year very memorable. He wants to introduce his terror bills — aimed at dissenters, including us — and more of his anti-worker bills into
Liam Mitchell
"Billy", who features in the federal Coalition government's WorkChoices booklet promoting its planned industrial relations "reforms", has to sign an individual contract (Australian Workplace Agreement) to get a job. He is currently
Alex Miller
A British Royal Air Force officer is facing a court martial after refusing to return to Iraq on the grounds that the war is illegal.
The October 17 British Guardian reported that Flight-Lieutenant Malcolm Kendall-Smith is facing four
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