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  • Kennett bans taxi magazine

    Kennett bans taxi magazine MELBOURNE — This month's issue of the main Victorian taxi industry magazine, Taxi Call, has been withdrawn from the streets following disapproval by the Kennett state government. The 2500-copy print run was released a

  • Cancer cure in private hands

    At the beginning of October, the former publicly owned Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, now CSL Limited, announced a breakthrough discovery — a therapeutic vaccine against a bacterium which causes peptic ulcers and sometimes

  • Western Sydney women reclaim the night

    Western Sydney women reclaim the nightPARRAMATTA — More than 100 women and children from Sydney's western suburbs participated in a spirited Reclaim the Night march and rally on October 24 under the banner of "Women's and

  • Support needed for 'people's reconciliation resolution'

    Support needed for 'people's reconciliation resolution' SYDNEY — The National Aboriginal History and Heritage Council is proposing an alternative "people's reconciliation resolution" to the one which will be put to state parliament by Labor

  • Last chance for a national treasure

    Imagine a forest scene of such beauty it could be the cover of a fantasy novel. Picture trees so wide that a group of five people standing with their arms stretched and their hands linked could not form a complete circle around the

  • Speaking out against racism

    PERTH — On November 8, around 150 people gathered in Murray Street mall to hold a speak-out against racism and intolerance. Organised by the socialist youth organisation Resistance, and co-sponsored by a broad range of other

  • Woodchipping — another gift to business

    Less than two years ago, thousands of people took to the streets around Australia to protest against the Labor government's expansion of the woodchipping export quotas and the granting of licences to woodchip areas of high

  • Women reclaim the night around Australia

    Rallies, marches and other activities in the last week of October marked the annual Reclaim the Night events protesting violence against women. From Canberra, Katrina Dean reports that around 350 women and male supporters gathered in Civic on October

  • NMIT Student Union wins partial victory

    MELBOURNE — Students at Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE won a partial victory in their campaign to restore funding to their Student Union at an Institute Council meeting on October 28. The council, the governing body at

  • Electricity Trust enterprise bargaining stalls

    ADELAIDE — The third round of enterprise bargaining has stalled after eight meetings at the Electricity Trust of South Australia (ETSA). On October 18, the unions' single bargaining unit, seeking a 15% wage rise over two

  • Queensland government faces growing crisis

    BRISBANE — The Queensland Coalition government is lurching further into trouble following the resignation on October 29 of Kenneth Carruthers. Carruthers quit as chief of the Criminal Justice Commission probe into an alleged corrupt

  • Labor looks to modernise

    Labor looks to moderniseMELBOURNE — Given the defeats suffered by Labor governments over the last 12 months, you would think a conference entitled Social Democracy: Future Directions would attempt to explain why Labor is on the