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Students fight up-front feesCANBERRA — A recommendation calling for the introduction of fees of up to $12,000 for the professional component of the Australian National University's law degree is being reconsidered after

Police powers questioned after night club raidMELBOURNE — Forty armed police burst into popular city gay and lesbian nightclub, Tasty, on August 7, detaining 463 patrons and staff for up to three hours and strip

Greens contest Parramatta by-electionSYDNEY — On August 27, voters in the state seat of Parramatta, once a piece of Labor's "heartland" and now a marginal seat, go to the polls. Some commentators estimate the outcome will

BRISBANE — The 11 miners buried underground after an explosion at the Moura No 2 coal mine on August 7, along with their suffering families, are the victims of the profit drive of BHP and other corporate mining giants.

RU486: extending women's choicesThe Catholic church in Australia has called for a halt to current trials of RU486, the so-called "abortion pill". The trials, taking place under the auspices of the World Health Organisation

South east tollway opposedBRISBANE — More than 7000 people rallied in the Daisy Hill State Forest on July 31 to protest the state Labor government's plan to forge a new road link between Brisbane and the Gold Coast through

ADELAIDE — The South Australian Institute of Teachers is planning a rally for September 3 and has proposed a series of strikes and school stoppages to protest the state Liberal government's cuts to public education. SAIT president, Claire

Count ourselves lucky? "Even though we ended up with a boom and a recession which followed ... it could have been catastrophic." Paul Keating explaining how the ALP's skills in managing economic policy avoided hardship and economic turmoil.

PNG environmentalists reject logging plansOn August 12, the PNG government will consider a Timber Supply Agreement (TSA) proposal. Ursula Rakova, spokesperson for a 14-strong delegation from the Papua New Guinea National

Independent challenges Labor in WilliamstownMELBOURNE — "Our central aim is to highlight the need to reverse the effects of the last decade of federal and state Labor policies on the west. The ALP's policies of

'Time to go'Time for Peace — Time to Go is an international broad-based campaign formed to mark the 25th anniversary of British troops in the north of Ireland. The campaign says that British withdrawal is central to

Kurnell workers win partial victoryOn July 15 the Australian Industrial Relations Commission handed down a decision that places the dispute between Caltex and workers at the Kurnell refinery out of the NSW state industrial