By Nicolle Berell SYDNEY — On March 7, NSW teachers struck in support of their demand for a 12% pay rise with no productivity trade-offs. More than 2500 teachers packed Town Hall in one of several strike meetings that took place across the state to
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By Pip Hinman Big business is salivating at the prospect of appropriating an even greater share of the country's wealth under a Coalition government. But given that John Howard says he intends to honour his $6.4 billion election promises despite a
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By Seetal Dodd MELBOURNE — Hospital services in the northern region, covering the Austin, Repatriation, Fairfield, PANCH, and Bundoora hospitals, are entering their third week of industrial action. Strong bans have been in place on all hospital
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By Nikki Ulasowski WOLLONGONG — Fifty women attended the year's first women's collective meeting at Wollongong University. The meeting discussed ideas of what the collective should be and what campaigns should be organised. Ideas flowed, such as
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NEWCASTLE — The notion that feminism is irrelevant in the '90s is being challenged on Newcastle University. After a period of several years without a prominent feminist presence on campus, a group of inspired women who recognise that the fight for
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By Anthony Benbow and Justin Randell PERTH — A mass meeting of bus drivers on March 7 demanded the state Liberal government suspend its "competitive tendering" process or face further industrial action. The drivers, members of the Public Transport
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By Alex Bainbridge NEWCASTLE — CRA subsidiary, Novacoal, rejected an offer on March 7 by miners' union, CFMEU, to guarantee its profits to the tune of $250,000. The Vickery mine near Gunnedah has struck for almost seven months over compulsory 12
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By Lisa Macdonald Despite the large number of small progressive parties and independents contesting the federal elections on March 2, the vote for these alternatives was relatively low. The Australian Democrats, promoted by the establishment media
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By Lisa Macdonald The right-wing National Association of Forest Industries (NAFI) is sponsoring an end of the month visit to Australia by former Greenpeace campaigner Patrick Moore. Since 1991, Moore has been working for the British Columbia Forests
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By Neil Eveleigh BRISBANE — ASIET (Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor) hosted a forum at the Resistance Centre on February 29 on "East Timor and Australian foreign policy". The forum included speakers from the Australian Democrats,
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By Bill Mason BRISBANE It only took a week for the revelation that Queensland is returning to the bad old days of Bjelke-Petersen, former Democratic Socialist candidate for the federal seat of Brisbane Zanny Begg told Green Left Weekly. The secret
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Right credentials "He has shown more than most politicians a good understanding of how business works and would certainly have most of the credentials that a board would look for." — A representative of an "executive search" company on the further