Trent Hawkins
Amid all the media hype about tax cuts and the surplus following the release of the federal budget on May 9, one thing that didn't attract much attention was the budget's impact on higher education.
In a nutshell, the 2006 budget is
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On May 15, the US announced that it would halt weapons sales to Venezuela due to its alleged lack of cooperation in the US "war on terrorism". In response, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez told the BBC during a recent London visit: "If it's true that
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
Zoe Kenny
Federal treasurer Peter Costello's 2006 budget included a $500 million "cash injection" towards restoring the health of the Murray River, probably to give "green" cover to an otherwise woeful environment budget that only commits just over
Graham Matthews
The Coalition's 11th budget delivered on May 9, which gave tax cuts to all, was an attempt to distract us from the Australian Wheat Board scandal, Work Choices, and rising fuel and mortgage costs. But of the $36.7 billion to be
Ben Courtice, Melbourne
According to the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU), 35 casual workers employed at Ballarat's MaxiTrans, which builds semi-trailers, have been sacked while 25 guest worker welders hired last year have been kept
John Pilger
I have spent the past three weeks filming in the hillside barrios of Caracas, in streets and breeze-block houses that defy gravity and torrential rain and emerge at night like fireflies in the fog.
Caracas is said to be one of the
The Great Labor Schism: a retrospectiveedited by Brian Costar, Peter Love & Paul Strangio Scribe, 2005 384 pages, $35 (pb)
REVIEW BY MATTHEW LAMB
Although the essays collected in The Great Labor Schism are said to be a retrospective of the
On May 14, Venezuela's socialist President Hugo Chavez proposed a program to provide cheap heating oil to low-income communities in Europe. This follows a successful program in the US by Venezuelan oil subsidiary Citgo, providing subsidised heating
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