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  • Students organise global justice conference

    SYDNEY — Student activists have begun preparations for the Student Solidarity Conference to be held in Sydney next April. The conference will bring together solidarity activists from around the country, and the Asia-Pacific region,

  • ALP rorts: just the tip of the iceberg

    The number of senior ALP figures implicated in vote rorting and other shady internal party practices is increasing as middle and lower level ALP figures spill their guts to the Queensland Criminal Justice Commission inquiry headed by

  • Action updates

    Rally demands end to Israeli repression ADELAIDE — Around 150 people rallied here on November 29 on the steps of Parliament House to demand an immediate end to the brutal Israeli repression of the Palestinian people. Speakers included

  • STP workers: 'We stay till they pay'

    BY STEPHEN O'BRIEN NEWCASTLE — A photo of STP bosses Stephen and Bradley Weeks with the caption "wanted for unpaid workers' entitlements of over $3 million" is appearing around Newcastle as part of the support campaign for 220 workers owed money

  • Victorian NUS hits Bracks

    MELBOURNE — The National Union of Students (NUS) Victorian conference held at Monash University on November 25 adopted a number of progressive positions. The policy motion condemning Labor Victorian Premier Steve Bracks over his

  • ALP, ISO oppose solidarity conference

    MELBOURNE — In Palestine, young people are resisting Israeli tanks with rocks. In Indonesia, students, workers and peasants are mobilising daily against rising prices and job losses imposed by the International Monetary

  • Loose cannons

    Chockers already “There is no room in the ALP for people who break the law.” — ALP federal leader Kim Beazley. Their health is another matter “We commit to respecting the religious, cultural and ethical concerns of people.” —

  • Globalisation conference seeks answers

    BY ROBERTO JORQUERA & SARAH STEPHEN PERTH — Around 150 people attended the "Globalisation: trash or treasure" conference at Curtin university on November 25. The one day conference was initiated by the Stop MAI [Multilateral Agreement on

  • Wharfies demand a straight answer

    SYDNEY — A leaked document that appears to be a management report of a secret meeting between some federal Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) officials and P&O Stevedoring to discuss further retrenchments of workers has caused

  • Refugees on hunger strike to protest detention

    ADELAIDE — In recent weeks, the Woomera detention centre has been the focus of media attention, following allegations that the centre's management had covered up the sexual abuse of a 12-year-old boy at the centre. There have

  • Action updates

    S11 films hit Nimbin LISMORE — For the first event organised by Green Left Weekly supporters in the famous northern NSW counter-cultural centre of Nimbin, 30 people packed the Timbarra Environmental Caf‚ to watch several documentaries on the

  • A tragic decline in living standards

    CANBERRA — The ACT Coroners Court was told on November 17 that it was "a tragic indictment of the system" that a Canberra man had committed suicide while holding a letter of demand from the Child Support Agency (CSA). Warren