Alex Bainbridge, Hobart
Public sector nurses have won significant improvements in their pay and conditions after a hard-fought dispute with the Tasmanian government. The decision to accept the government's offer was made at mass meetings held
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MELBOURNE — On August 17, a range of speakers addressed a public forum organised by the Darebin Ethnic Communities Council on the humanitarian crisis unfolding in the Darfur region of Sudan. Malcolm Witton, Victorian manager of World Vision,
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Sarah Stephen, Sydney Staff at the University of New South Wales face an unprecedented attack in the wake of vice-chancellor Fred Hilmer's pursuit of his vision for UNSW as one of the "top three" universities in Australia. Before the ink was even
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Sarah Stephen On April 26, a team of Australian lawyers, including prominent Melbourne QC Julian Burnside and solicitor Eric Vadarlis, planned to challenge in a Nauruan court the legality of visas issued to 252 asylum seekers to keep them in
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Luke Fomiatti, Sydney UWS students declared victory after the University of Western Sydney Board of Trustees voted against increasing HECS fees on August 12. With only two days' notice, 100 students blockaded the secret meeting, which was called
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The people's champion is laid to rest, by the rank and file your soul is blessed, your casket draped with the flag of stars, for you did not break behind those bars, and behind those bars you served your time, for the workingman's gain is
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3 Suicide attempts in Port Hedland Port Hedland immigration detention centre, in the far north of Western Australia, is the site of deep depression, despair and suicide attempts. All of its 54 prisoners have been there for more than three
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Kathy Newnam Over 10% of the population of Yepoon, in central Queensland, rallied on August 1 against plans for a joint US-Australia military "training centre" in nearby Shoalwater Bay. Hundreds of people took to the town centre to demand that
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Alex Bainbridge, Sydney Fifty unionists protested outside the Korean embassy on September 12 in support of striking construction workers in Korea. The Korean workers are facing jail, injury and even death in pursuit of their demands for better
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SYDNEY — Canadian academic Leo Panitch discussed the making of global capitalism at a meeting of 25 people on April 14, organised by the Socialist Alliance. Panitch is co-editor of Socialist Register, a professor of political science at York
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Saddam-lite I "[US-appointed Iraqi prime minister Iyad] Allawi was a Baathist, and his vision for Iraq almost seems like Saddam-lite or neo-Saddam in the sense that he believes in a strong central government and a large army which would also
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SYDNEY — One hundred and twenty people attended a rally at against Australia's participation in the US-led wars on Iraq and Afghanistan on September 21 — the UN's Global Ceasefire and Non-violence Day. Held outside the Sydney Town Hall and