@box text intr = The results of the July 14 Aston federal by-election said a lot about what the existing parliamentary parties will be offering voters in the federal election later this year. And what a sorry performance it was.
Despite Peter
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Unlike the corporate-owned press, Green Left Weekly has never been supportive of Pauline Hanson or her racist politics. Quite the opposite — we have actively built opposition to the kind of racist scapegoating that Hanson peddles. This newspaper
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On July 5, representatives of the East Timor Transitional Cabinet, the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor and the Australian government met in Dili and signed the Timor Sea Arrangement, concluding 10 months of negotiating and
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Public need not corporate greed: Fund Medicare and end government funding of private schools, hospitals and health insurance Axe the GST, tax the rich: Introduce a highly progressive tax on incomes, profits and wealth of the rich. Jobs not
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It has now been six years since a federal Liberal-National Coalition government was elected. During these six years, the government, aided and abetted by the Australian Democrats, has: introduced anti-union legislation so severe that workers need
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The GST has got to go! It's not just a tax, but part of a system of taxation, which in the words of Business Review Weekly "is about shifting the burden of taxation from capital to labour." The GST widens the gap between rich and
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By Ian Rintoul & Dick Nichols, national convenors, Socialist Alliance The Socialist Alliance was formed last February by nine socialist organisations to meet the burning need for a real alternative in Australian politics: An alternative for all
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@box text intr = The Honourable Philip Ruddock, John Howard's minister for racism, plumbed new xenophobic depths this week with his full-frontal assault on a Joint Parliamentary Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs report on conditions in detention
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The people's rollback versus Labor's In the five years since John Howard was elected prime minister, his government has carried through a breathtaking range of attacks on the working class. Key among these were the sale of Telstra, the
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@box text intr = The June 3 demonstrations to free the refugees will be the first nationally co-ordinated actions in support of refugees in Australia's history. It is a tragedy that they are necessary. Australia offers no welcome haven to those
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HIH is not a bad apple Public calls for a full-scale royal commission into the collapse of failed insurance giant HIH are mounting. And so they should be it's high time that the insurance industry was dragged kicking and screaming
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100 years of service ... to capitalism When the likes of Kim Beazley, Paul Keating and Bob Hawke swell with pride at something, you know it must really stink. On May 8, Labor leaders, past and present, gathered in Melbourne to