MELBOURNE — In the early hours of May 11, police attacked 150 Indigenous activists and their supporters as they removed embers from the "sacred flame" that had been burning in the Kings Domain park in central Melbourne since the Camp Sovereignty
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Eloise Schnierer
The New Caledonian islands lie 1200 kilometres off the east coast of Australia. A French territory that is co-governed by a provincial New Caledonian parliament and the French government, New Caledonia (or Kanaky) is a biodiversity
Labor Party
I read an article sourced from the Australian Associated Press (AAP) on April 17, in which Labor treasury spokesperson Wayne Swan said a number of research projects pointed to the need for an overhaul of the tax and welfare systems. He
MELBOURNE — Residents of the western suburb of Broadmeadows are celebrating a small victory after the Howard government announced in its 2006 budget that it had decided to scrap the construction of a $120 million, 500-bed immigration detention
James Caufield, Canberra
On May 10, 100 people chanting "Refugees yes, racism no, Johnny Howard has got to go", rallied outside federal parliament. The demonstration was called by the Refugee Action Committee to protest against the introduction of
Michael Karadjis
A wide-ranging public discussion in the lead up to the 10th congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) — held in Hanoi on April 18-25 and attended by 1176 delegates — focused on issues of corruption, calls for greater
Duncan Meerding, Hobart
A May 11 meeting of workers employed at the Beaconsfield goldmine in northern Tasmania called for an independent judicial inquiry into the rock fall in the mine on April 25 that resulted in the death of miner Larry Knight,
GEELONG — On May 9, 25 members of the Geelong Community and Union Solidarity Group (GCUSG) met to discuss the fight against the Howard government's Work Choices laws.
Joan Doyle, Victorian branch secretary of the communications workers' union,
The following statement was issued by the Democratic Socialist Perspective (DSP) on May 19.
In 1999, following the pro-independence vote at the UN-supervised ballot in East Timor, the Indonesian military and its hired militia thugs went on a
On May 11, 10,000 riot police attempted to prevent a pro-democracy demonstration in Cairo in support of two judges facing disciplinary hearings for exposing corruption in the November elections. Dozens of protesters, as well as media reporters, were
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