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  • Government uses 'bribery' to push Jabiluka mine

    The Australian government's response to the World Heritage Commission's damning report on uranium mining in Kakadu has been a predictable combination of "You're wrong", "You have no right", and "We're doing all we can". The report,

  • Speak-out on Balkans war

    Speak-out on Balkans warSYDNEY — The socialist youth organisation Resistance organised a snap speak-out at Town Hall on April 16 against the NATO war on Serbia and Serbia's attacks on Kosova. Resistance organiser Sarah Peart spoke

  • Student bureaucrats refuse support for anti-VSU campaign

    BRISBANE — The University of Queensland student union executive has shocked students and anti-voluntary student unionism campaigners by formally disassociating itself from the Cross Campus Anti-VSU Collective (CCAVSUC). At its

  • Liberal and Labor cover-up: terror in Timor

    Liberal and Labor cover-up: terror in TimorAs Indonesian-sponsored militias create chaos throughout East Timor and the Indonesian government threatens to send East Timorese Resistance leader Xanana Gusmao back

  • Women in revolutionary movements

    Women in revolutionary movementsADELAIDE — Inspired by International Women's Day, women members of Committees in Solidarity with Latin America and the Caribbean organised an event on April 9 on the topic of women in

  • Shadowboxing with Mark Latham

    SYDNEY — About 90 people attended a seminar titled "Globalisation and the Third Way" presented by the International Socialist Organisation on April 16 at the University of Technology, Sydney. Speakers were ALP parliamentarian Mark

  • Rank and file strengthen CPSU ACT campaign

    Rank and file strengthen CPSU ACT campaignCANBERRA — Nationally, the failure of the ALP-dominated leadership of the Community and Public Sector Union to defend the 5000 Centrelink jobs threatened by the Liberals shows it

  • University pulls plug on community radio

    University pulls plug on community radio By Corinne Batt-Rawden and Ritchie Logan LISMORE — Around 120 people gathered on April 13 at a public meeting to show their support for the future of 2NCR, after the local community radio station's

  • Hiccup for government's VSU plans

    The Australian Vice-Chancellors Committee has received legal advice from Minter Ellison that the government's voluntary student unionism (VSU) legislation may be unconstitutional. This is denied by education minister David Kemp, who claims that he

  • Loose cannons

    Honoured leadership "Today's [party room] meeting will be happy to let George stay, because no-one would want his job anyway." — A NSW National Party source, predicting to the Sydney Morning Herald the re-election of state National leader George

  • Protest against Sydney nuclear reactor

    Protest against Sydney nuclear reactorSYDNEY — Six hundred people attended a rally on April 11 to protest against a new nuclear reactor proposed for Lucas Heights in southern Sydney. The rally was held outside the front gates