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Deal proposed on radioactive waste A leaked letter from South Australian Premier Dean Brown to Prime Minister Paul Keating reveals that the SA government is attempting to trade its opposition to a radioactive waste repository at Woomera for a

Employable "With my skills in life, I am employable elsewhere." — NSW Labor right MLA Bob Martin, threatening to resign and cause a by-election if he was dropped from the front bench. Loyalty "If you only want to run for the big jobs, what

PERTH — The latest public sector cuts announced by the Court Liberal government are the most direct attacks so far on working people, and on our right to organise and fight for better work conditions. Behind the somewhat

SYDNEY — Social Security workplace delegates from all over NSW attended the Combined Delegates Conference (CDC) at the Community and Public Sector Union's Sydney Office on March 27 and 28. Important issues discussed

Coogee women's pool savedSYDNEY — An anti-discrimination tribunal on March 31 dismissed as "vexatious" and "frivolous" against the Randwick and Coogee Ladies Swimming Club and the Randwick Council over McIver's Baths

RMIT fees to riseMELBOURNE — As is appropriate for a university that has just appointed smallgoods king Sam Smorgon its new chancellor, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology is leading the way on becoming a

Green senators challenge budget plans Greens (WA) senators Dee Margetts and Christabel Chamarette have released an alternative analysis of the economy, challenging many of the government's basis assumptions informing the May budget plans. The

"Those with a conscience in the ALP will find it hard to defend the indefensible", was how WA Green Senator Dee Margetts summed up the federal government's forests package, announced on March 30. Margetts told Green Left Weekly

BRISBANE — Brisbane's Campaigning for Democratic Socialism conference, over the Easter weekend, is shaping up to be the largest such gathering ever held here. The conference is organised by the Democratic Socialist Party and the

Twenty-four arrested in M2 blockadeSYDNEY — At 6am on March 29, police dispersed the "civil disobedience" blockade of the M2 Tollway, near Macquarie University in Epping, which had been costing the Abigroup-Obayashi

Duty calls "Cabinet members should be more deeply involved in issues, and some of them might care to stay in Australia and do some work. It's been hard to find them in Australia this year." — Federal Labor backbencher Peter Cleeland, MP for

SYDNEY — The people of NSW gave a decisive thumbs down to "politics as usual" in the state election on March 25. The 1.5% swing away from the Liberal-National Coalition, the fact that the ALP just managed to limp over the