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  • Labor cuts housing funds

    Labor cuts housing funds The federal government is to cut $50 million from state-tied housing programs, which will affect low income earners harshly. For years the New South Wales government has underfunded the community housing sector,

  • Questions on national parks funding

    Questions on national parks fundingADELAIDE — Following serious concerns about funding levels to national parks, a federal parliamentary committee has projected that $200 million will be spent nationally on acquiring

  • Mayne Nick heists Port Macquarie hospital

    The Mayne Nickless conglomerate, whose fleets of armoured cars have sometimes been the target of gun-wielding desperadoes, pulled a heist of its own over the holiday period. With an audacity that makes the Melbourne Club

  • Concerned Citizens picket

    Concerned Citizens picket SYDNEY — The Concerned Citizens group continues to hold a weekly picket outside the Israeli consulate here to demand that all the Palestinians deported by Israel be allowed to return to their homes. The picket

  • Kennett stalls on Coode Island move

    Kennett stalls on Coode Island moveMELBOURNE — Despite promises prior to last year's state election, it appears that the Kennett government may be backing away from funding the relocation of the Coode Island chemical

  • Melbourne frame-up defeated

    MELBOURNE — On January 20 Scott Baker was acquitted in Magistrate's Court of false charges laid against him by police who arrested and assaulted him in Collingwood last year. In the afternoon of September 4, the

  • Loose cannons

    Man of the people US President Bill Clinton's first cabinet includes eight millionaires. George Bush's had six and Ronald Reagan's seven. Spin "146,000 miss out on offers for university" — headline in January 29 Australian. "They're in:

  • Socialist preferences to Greens in WA

    Socialist preferences to Greens in WA PERTH — The large number of third party and independent candidates in the WA elections has given an increased importance to the question of preferences. The Democratic Socialists, who are running in

  • Picket supports abortion rights

    Picket supports abortion rightsPERTH — "Get your laws off our bodies", shouted a lively picket outside Liberal Party offices here on January 27. The demonstration, initiated by the Democratic Socialists, highlighted

  • Brisbane City Council bans free speech

    BRISBANE — Five people were arrested on January 29 and 30 as a result of the Brisbane City Council's campaign to remove all political groups from the City Mall. Three arrests occurred on January 29 after members of

  • Pickets on Indonesia

    Pickets were held last week, often outside Garuda Airlines offices, in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney to protest against the arrest of farmers and student activists in East Java, Indonesia. The 50 arrested were held for four days

  • PSU rank and file contest election

    PSU rank and file contest electionSYDNEY — A David and Goliath contest is opening up within the Public Sector Union in an election for the position of assistant national secretary. Phil Sandford, a poorly funded