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  • Protest against mandatory sentencing!

    Protest against mandatory sentencing! MELBOURNE: "Oppose mandatory sentencing". Resistance forum. Guest speaker from Deaths in Custody Watch Committee. Thursday, March 23, 1pm. Union Laws, Melbourne University. SYDNEY: Protest against the visit

  • Sex, drugs and our right to decide

    Sex, drugs and our right to decide Marina Carman The $5 million National Alcohol Campaign has hit our TV screens. In the two advertisements, teenagers drinking alcohol end up either having unsafe sex or beating someone up. The campaign includes

  • Griffith students unite for better conditions

    Griffith students unite for better conditionsBRISBANE — An upgrade of computer facilities, tutorial sizes capped at 15, free child-care, better security on campus, abolition of library fines and an end to academic job losses

  • Olympics forcing Sydney rents up

    Olympics forcing Sydney rents upSYDNEY — Tenant rights advocates Rentwatchers have warned that rent levels in the Olympics corridor here are skyrocketing and the frequency of evictions from houses, flats and lodges in the city

  • Workers' alternative needed, say socialist candidates

    Workers' alternative needed, say socialist candidatesBRISBANE — "The Democratic Socialists support a city council which truly represents the working people of Brisbane", socialist candidates Graham Matthews and Coral Wynter

  • CLP by-election victory proves little

    CLP by-election victory proves littleDARWIN — The Northern Territory's chief minister, Denis Burke, claims that the Country Liberal Party (CLP) victory in the March 11 Port Darwin by-election shows that Territorians approve of

  • Loose cannons

    Maggots unite! "It sounds terrible, but it is a fact that flies get into wounds on occasions." — Senator John Herron, representing the minister for aged care, excusing maggots infesting the wounds of patients at Perth's Kensington Park Nursing

  • Tax workers dissatisfied with pay offer

    Tax workers dissatisfied with pay offerMELBOURNE — Community and Public Sector Union members in the Australian Taxation Office are dissatisfied with management's "final offer" for a new agency agreement. Negotiations have been

  • Staff resist individual contracts

    Staff resist individual contracts By Nikki Ulasowski HOBART — General staff at the University of Tasmania have formed an industrial action committee to oppose an attempt by the vice-chancellor to introduce individual contracts as part of a new

  • Newcastle holds People's Inquiry

    Newcastle holds People's InquiryNEWCASTLE "Madre, they will kill us." These words have stayed with Sister Carmel Hanson, even since she returned from East Timor last year. She feels that her assurances to people there that the

  • Aboriginal communities face deregistration

    Aboriginal communities face deregistrationHundreds of remote Aboriginal communities face the loss of title to their land because of federal government enforcement of seriously flawed legislation. Federal law requires all

  • Nuclear waster dump: 10 reasons for a referendum

    Nuclear waster dump: 10 reasons for a referendum1. Sydneysiders have been told that long-lived intermediate-level nuclear wastes — including reprocessing wastes from the nuclear reactor in Lucas Heights — will definitely be