BRISBANE — Mineworkers, their union and townspeople have condemned a decision by BHP to close two underground mines at Blackwater, 200km west of Rockhampton, and the resulting loss of 200 jobs. The closure of the Laleham and Kenmare
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MELBOURNE — Yallourn Energy is attempting to use the Industrial Relations Commission to force the shedding of further jobs and conditions on the workers of the Latrobe Valley. On January 18, as the commission sat, a 400-strong
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Adelaide: Sat Feb 3, noon. Women's Studies Resource Centre, 64 Pennington Tce, city. Ph Rebecca 8231 6982. Brisbane: Mon Feb 5, 6.30pm. TLC Bldg, 16 Peel St, Sth Brisbane. All women welcome. Ph 3831 2644. Darwin: Mon Jan 29, Feb 12, 19, 26,
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BRISBANE — Each week, US-backed counterrevolutionary groups broadcast 2800 hours of propaganda into Cuba, using a frequency that the country's government cannot block without also playing havoc with aircraft navigation controls,
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MELBOURNE — Members of the National Union of Workers at the Qenos refinery in Altona have reached the 100th day of a management lockout. The workers are holding out against management's attempt to impose large reductions in an
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BRISBANE — The Queensland Labor government is in deep trouble after one of its leading lights, MP for Woodridge and former state secretary Mike Kaiser, quit the ALP and announced he would not stand in the upcoming state election.
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BY FRANCES SHEEHAN & SARAH CLEARY Taking up the theme "Women fighting for global justice", the International Women's Day 2001 collectives have been launched in Sydney and Hobart. The Sydney collective is organising a political action for Saturday
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PERTH — Supporters of refugee rights here have formed a new Refugee Rights Action Network to demand the immediate release from detention of all asylum seekers and a complete overhaul of Australia's border policy. The January 16
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ADELAIDE — The full bench of the South Australian Supreme Court has ruled against Michael Brander, head of the racist National Action organisation, in his defamation action against Messenger Newspapers. Brander claimed that he
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Universities are lowering academic standards in order to pass a greater number of full fee-paying domestic and international students, the preliminary results of a new study of academic freedom has revealed. The soon to be released
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Improving on perfection "I believe the system is as safe as it could possibly be, but that doesn't mean that we can't make it safer." — NSW transport minister Carl Scully on the state's public transport system. Executioner "I am mindful of
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HOBART — Faced with a rising tide of public opposition to its latest woodchip mill and wood-fired power station proposal, Forestry Tasmania has decided on a complete change of tactics. Abandoning any pretence of warm and fuzzy