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  • Printers beat Murdoch

    Printers beat MurdochSYDNEY — Printing workers at Rupert Murdoch's News Limited voted to return to work on July 17 after defeating company attempts to impose significant and retrograde changes in working conditions in a new

  • Black deaths continue

    Black deaths continue Black deaths in custody are increasing, according to a report into 1993 deaths by the Institute of Criminology. Eight Aboriginal people died in custody in 1993, a rate almost eight times the national average.

  • Protests target Tasmania's anti-gay laws

    Protests target Tasmania's anti-gay lawsProtests demanding the repeal of Tasmania's anti-gay laws were held in a number of cities on July 14. Rohan Gaiswinkler reports from Hobart that 800 people attended a rally in

  • Gay businesses push boycott campaign

    Gay businesses push boycott campaignThe struggle to repeal Tasmania's anti-gay laws has taken on a new edge with the launch of a boycott campaign by gay businesses around Australia and internationally. The campaign aims to

  • Brown attacks annual leave

    Brown attacks annual leave Dean Brown's Liberal government sided with a local South Australian employer in a failed bid to halve annual leave under an enterprise flexibility agreement. Secretary of the Automotive, Food, Metals and

  • Meat inspectors' conditions for the chop?

    Meat inspectors' conditions for the chop?CANBERRA — Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service (AQIS) agency bargaining negotiations broke down on July 8 over the issue of conditions for meat inspectors and field-based

  • Protest condemns crackdown in East Timor

    BRISBANE — Fifty people attended a speak out in support of East Timor in the Queen Street Mall on July 15. The protest was called in response to the previous day's violent crackdown by Indonesian troops on a protest in Dili.

  • Queer conference stresses activism

    Queer conference stresses activismBRISBANE — Two hundred students from around the country attended the very successful Queer Collaborations Conference here from July 2-9. The conference opened with a rally at Albert

  • Socialist youth set goals

    Socialist youth set goalsSYDNEY — More than 250 people attended the 23rd Resistance National Conference here from July 8-10. Activists from around Australia, including Darwin, Perth and Launceston discussed the crisis of

  • SA's own Dan Quayle

    SA's own Dan QuayleADELAIDE — Single women are "going around getting pregnant to rort the system", according to state Liberal backbencher Joe Rossi. He has also been quoted by a suburban newspaper as saying that single

  • Union women's conference calls for action

    CANBERRA — In a period of international trade agreements, Australian workers can't ignore international issues and working conditions, Greens Senator Dee Margetts told a Canberra Public Sector Union dinner on June 22. The dinner

  • Lesbians and gays rally in Brisbane

    Lesbians and gays rally in BrisbaneBRISBANE — 1500 people rallied on July 2 to support lesbian and gay rights. The rally, which commemorates the 25th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, was followed by a