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Thanks for nothing The frost lies heavily on the lawns of the Lodge the morning after the Budget is brought down. The ABC drones on attempting to achieve balance by broadcasting the clichéd statements of experts. Economic
Solidarity Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor (ASIET) has issued an emergency petition calling on the Suharto government to release all political prisoners and end suppression of freedom of assembly and organisation. More than 100
By John McGill and Sheila Suttner PERTH — Aboriginal activist and Vietnam veteran Lenny Culbong died on June 18, aged only 48. His exposure to Agent Orange in Vietnam was a major factor in his early death. Despite increasingly bad health, Lenny
By Brian Kelly It is twilight. I am sitting in an outdoor restaurant in Becora, Dili, with several East Timorese youths, listening to local songs played by one of the teenage boys. The neighbouring children sit cross-legged in the grass around us,
Shell workers strike By Dave Mizon GEELONG — Workers at Shell's refinery are striking in response to a push for multi-skilling at the refinery. In negotiations over an enterprise agreement, workers have been pushing for a 12% pay rise over two
High school picket a success PERTH — High school students held a lively picket and speak-out in the mall on August 16. The action was organised by Resistance and the Student Unionism Network, a cross-campus tertiary students' group coordinating
By Marina Cameron For more than a decade, neo-liberal rhetoric has promised that a globalised "free market" will lead to progress and increasing prosperity for greater numbers. But the reality is the opposite: "in the past 15 years the world has
I am not usually one for public confessions, but I feel that something must be said. You can imagine how difficult this is for me to admit to. I am just an ordinary Joe Blow trying to make their own way in the world. There's nothing special about me.
Women's right to choose under attack By Tuntuni Bhattacharyya There is a stealthy war being waged against women in Australia, a war that threatens to erode most of the reproductive rights and choices that women have won in past years. The first
International acclaim "Perhaps the most relentlessly corrupt police service in the English-speaking world." — The London Mail on Sunday, describing the NSW police. Bad PR "Mining industry leaders yesterday condemned the Federal Government

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