By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — As set forward recently by labour minister Gennady Melikyan, the Russian government's "solution" to unemployment is a familiar line from the West — "Women back into the home!"
More than 70% of Russia's
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By Arun Pradhan
Aboriginal people face highly disproportionate levels of imprisonment and are more vulnerable to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment within the justice system. These are just some of the criticisms raised in the recent
By Norrian Rundle
MELBOURNE — Secondary school teachers from the Victorian Secondary Teachers Association and the Federated Teachers Union of Victoria on February 10 took part in the first "illegal" 24-hour stop-work under the Kennett
Expelled ALP member to stand against Baldwin
SYDNEY — A former Labor Party member is the Democratic Socialist candidate in the inner city seat of Sydney, currently held by Peter Baldwin for the ALP. Margaret Gleeson, a community housing
Accord Mark VII
In the seventh manifestation of the misnamed Prices and Incomes Accord between the federal Labor government and the ACTU, the peak union body has agreed to forgo national wage claims for three years, or even longer if high
By Liam Mitchell
ADELAIDE — In a cynical election gimmick, the federal government has made the South Australian state Labor government an offer of financial assistance if the state government sells off part of the debt-ridden State Bank.
By Pip Hinman
While the media have made much of federal Labor's child-care cash rebate proposal, child-care workers are not as eager to embrace what they regard as anything but a fairer system.
"To start with, the 30% rebate is not
Utungan Percussion
By Katrina Dean
They were clad in purple, baggy clothes and top hats with streamers, drums around their necks and shells around their ankles — full body groovin'! This is Utungan Percussion.
This Sydney-based
No GST on Tomatoes! say Tasmanians
By Sean Pybus and Natasha Simons
HOBART — When Liberal leader John Hewson visited Salamanca Markets on Saturday, February 20, he didn't expect to be pelted with fruit and vegetables.
Hewson was
By Moyiga Nduru
LONDON — During a short visit to her native Somalia recently, Rakiya Omaar was stunned to discover that she could not gain access to foreign relief offices. "It was a very painful experience", she recalled, "to see the
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