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  • Fees for national parks?

    Fees for national parks?HOBART — Entrance fees to National Parks and botanical gardens are inevitable according to Tom Crossen, the national president of the Royal Australian Institute of Parks and Recreation. Speaking

  • ABC team ordered out of Bougainville

    ABC team ordered out of Bougainville Heavily armed Papua New Guinea soldiers on October 17 forced an Australian Broadcasting Corporation television news crew to leave Bougainville at gunpoint. The crew, which included the well-known Port

  • Tributes

    Tributes Tributes and messages of condolence for Jim Percy received as of Sunday, October 18 (We will publish a range of these in future issues): Aliansi Kekuatan Demokratik Se-Indonesia (AKSI, Indonesian Democratic Something Alliance), Central

  • Loose cannons

    But we'll pretend it does "The theoretical notion of a completely free market does not exist in practice. It never has existed and it never will exist." — John Hewson. Realistic A group of Liberals in Alice Springs has invented a board game

  • Liberals bomb out on job creation

    Liberals bomb out on job creationHOBART — At a time when the state Liberal government is slashing more than 1100 public sector jobs, a new job subsidy program has failed to create a single job. The "Tas Jobs for Youth"

  • Los Angeles youth speak out

    Los Angeles youth speak outADELAIDE — Helena Swan and George Evans, two young people from Central Los Angeles who are touring Australia to inform people about life in Los Angeles after the riots, spoke to a Resistance

  • Memorial meetings for Jim Percy

    Memorial meetings for Jim Percy Adelaide Monday, October 26, 7pm Resistance Centre, 34A Hindley St, Adelaide Brisbane Tuesday, October 27, 7pm Resistance Centre, 29 Terrace St, New Farm Hobart Saturday, November 7, 6pm Resistance

  • Powell presses for repeal of 45D and 45E

    Independent Victorian Senator Janet Powell, formerly leader of the Democrats, has given notice of her intention to introduce a bill in November to repeal the anti-union Sections 45D and 45E of the Trade Practices Act. She is

  • Port Macquarie resists private hospital

    PORT MACQUARIE — Nurses and local residents are planning a rally outside state parliament in Sydney on October 28 in an effort to stop the privatisation of their hospital services. Green Left spoke to one of the organisers

  • South Sydney Festival

    South Sydney FestivalSYDNEY — Redfern and the area of South Sydney in general has had its share of bad press and negative public opinion. Residents have also suffered the attempted closure of the Royal Prince Alfred

  • WA teachers in the mood for change

    WA teachers in the mood for changePERTH — Delegates at the annual conference of the WA Teachers' Union on September 29-October 1 overwhelmingly endorsed an agenda of change. This was the outcome of a campaign by rank and file

  • Green camp for Cuba

    Green camp for CubaMELBOURNE — The Green Team, a new non-profit cooperative, is trying to organise a group of Australians to participate in a new internationalist Green Camp in Cuba next year. According to Wayne Wadsworth,