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  • Green and left candidates

    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,

  • 90,000 Victorian workers take to the streets

    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'

    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.

  • Loose cannons

    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

  • Building a green, left alternative in the Illawarra

    Building a green, left alternative in the IllawarraWOLLONGONG — Doctor Margaret Perrott has been campaigning for a decade to build a green, left alternative to Labor and Liberal. In 1984 she was the founding

  • 'Anti-gay, go away!'

    'Anti-gay, go away!'HOBART — Anti-gay, anti-choice campaigner Fred Nile was confronted by 50 angry protesters from Tasmanian Gay and Lesbian Rights Group and Women's Action Group when he arrived at the airport here on

  • Victorian employment contracts to cut wages

    MELBOURNE — On March 1, some 800,000 workers in Victoria covered by state awards are forced to make a choice: sign an employment contract (individual or collective) or have award conditions automatically rolled over into an

  • Two decades of Tuesday Afternoon Group

    Two decades of Tuesday Afternoon GroupADELAIDE — The Tuesday Afternoon Group (TAG) has been meeting, discussing and demonstrating here for 20 years. It is the only women's organisation in Australia that arose during the

  • Candidate launches socialist platform

    Candidate launches socialist platformBRISBANE — The Democratic Socialist Campaign launched its policy platform at a meeting here on February 24 with a talk by Brisbane candidate Susan Price. Price outlined the

  • 400,000 attend Mardi Gras

    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

  • International Women's Day Collective

    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 Kelly

    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