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90,000 Victorian workers take to the streetsMELBOURNE — March 1 marked the death of the state award system here. Some 80,000 people marched in Melbourne and several thousand more rallied in regional centres to

The hole in Kennett's 'safety net'MELBOURNE — The Kennett government's Employee Relations Act purports to establish a "safety net" of minimum conditions for the new employment agreements being forced on many workers.

Stop press "GST is not a tax on business." — Title of a talk by the executive director of the NSW Chamber of Commerce at a seminar on GST. No tie? "In Franklin, which the Liberals hold with a 1.8 per cent margin, the big unknown is the

Here is the complete list of seats in which green and left candidates are standing in the March 13 poll. House of Representatives Australian Democrats New South Wales All seats except Berowra, Calare, Chifley, Eden-Monaro, Fowler, Hunter,

ay and Lesbian Mardi Gras was an exuberant festivity, with an estimated 400,000 watching the parade, which festival organisers described as a celebration of the community's self-pride, or participating in other festival activities. The

NEWCASTLE — Women from the International Women's Day Collective held a vigil in the Hunter Street Mall on February 18 in response to a call by the US National Organisation of Women (NOW) for protests against the atrocities being committed

Anti-nuclear author challenges Ros KellyCANBERRA — Anti-nuclear author Greg Adamson is contesting environment minister Ros Kelly's seat of Canberra for the Green Democratic Alliance. As in the 1990 federal

PORT MACQUARIE — The Hospital Action Group (HAG) held a meeting on February 24 to inform the people of the Hastings Valley of the implications of the services agreement signed between the Health Administration Corporation

Socialist presents alternative budgetNEWCASTLE — "At a time when major parties are trying to outdo each other on who can give the best offer to business, we are experiencing unemployment of over 1 million, cuts to

No argument "... remarkably amenable to Kerry's suggestions. He very rarely argues about anything." — Trevor Kennedy on the success formula of Richard Walsh, managing director of Kerry Packer's Australian Consolidated Press. Usually the

Evans faces protest over TimorBRISBANE — Foreign minister Gareth Evans, addressing a breakfast on Australia's trade relations with Asia, faced questions and a protest picket from members of Aksi — Indonesia Solidarity

Blockade delays loggingCANBERRA — The Wilderness Society and Deua Action Committee blockaded loggers from an area of wilderness just south of the Deua National Park in NSW in mid-February. This area in the Narooma