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John Howard upped the election stakes on January 29 when he unveiled his $2.9 billion innovation action plan, Backing Australia's Ability. The plan was applauded by business circles, university administrators and research bodies, but

SYDNEY — Dita Sari, chairperson of the Indonesian National Front for Labour Struggles (FNPBI), has written to the central New South Wales branch of the Maritime Union of Australia to thank the union for funding a number of FNPBI

PERTH — Residents of Burt Way, East Perth are outraged over Perth City Council's plan to demolish the housing in their street to make way for luxury high rise apartments. Local resident Karen Kinsett told Green Left Weekly

SYDNEY — Community activists from Richmond, Penrith and across the Blue Mountains are organising to stop a new women's prison from being built in Windsor, on the city's western outskirts. They say the state government should

DARWIN — Twenty spirited demonstrators chanted "Deport Ruddock, not the refugees" in protest at an appearance by the minister for immigration at a meeting here on February 1. The meeting, attended by 100 people, was part of

MELBOURNE — "The task facing us is to build a worthy sequel to S11 on May 1 that will strengthen and advance the movement, organisationally and ideologically", M1 Alliance spokesperson and Democratic Socialist Party activist Jackie

Because: * The average women's earnings (including overtime) are around two-thirds what men earn. * Abortion is still part of the Crimes Act in most states of Australia. * Women are still largely judged by how they look, rather than what they

ADELAIDE — More than 80 people attended a speakout and candlelight vigil to mark Invasion Day on January 26. The meeting was held outside Government House, on what has become known to Aboriginal activists as Genocide Corner,

Diplomacy “Once that clear political objective is established — such as kick the government of Panama totally; not just kick the army out, but get rid of an entire government — that's what we did in 1989 on 12 hours' notice, with

PERTH — The campaign to save Western Australia's old-growth forests has become a major issue in the February 10 state election campaign. On January 23, the ALP released its "controversial" policy which pledges to stop old-growth

In Melbourne last year on September 11, more than 20,000 people mobilised to shut down the World Economic Forum's Asia-Pacific meeting. The meeting's purpose was clear — for the chief executives of the largest 1000 corporations

BRISBANE — Angry at the expulsion of two gay men from Southbank parklands for kissing in public, 100 protesters gathered at the park on January 14 for a public "kiss off" denouncing the idea that such public displays of affection