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For a real opposition to the GST The first report of the Senate committee hearings on the GST will be released this week. Predictably, the establishment press is attempting to water down criticism of the Howard government's so-called tax "reform
Britain keeps silent on state violence in Ireland By Stuart Ross On January 30, 1972, 13 unarmed civilians were gunned down by British soldiers on the streets of Derry. Another 14 were seriously wounded. One later died of his injuries. To this
By Sam Wainwright SYDNEY — More than 4000 teachers braved pouring rain to rally outside Sydney's Town Hall on February 9. The action was part of a statewide one-day strike called by the NSW Teachers Federation to pressure the Labor and Coalition
Industrial action at Sydney Uni By Tyrion Perkins SYDNEY — Staff at the University of Sydney voted on February 10 to take industrial action over problems with the latest round of enterprise bargaining. At a meeting of 300 National Tertiary
By Kate Carr BRISBANE — On February 9, the first Cross-Campus Education Network (CCEN) meeting took place in Queensland, attended by around 20 people. During 1998, the CCEN was an open, activist-based collective which directed the National Union
Details Why didn't anyone tell me that the line had been changed? I just made a complete fool of myself in front of everyone! What are you talking about? Haven't you heard? An independent East Timor is now OK. It isn't, is it? It is.
Gough Whitlam: * Supported Australia's intervention in Vietnam in 1965. * Met Suharto over dinner during his first year as Indonesia's president. During that year, up to 1 million people were massacred. Decades later, Whitlam still referred to
By Katie Broadbent ADELAIDE — Resistance is organising a protest against the federal government's attacks on Centrelink workers and the unemployed. With "initiatives" like literacy tests and work for the dole, the Howard government is trying to
Arrests on Timbarra Road By Olivier Maxted NORTHERN NSW — Protesters against the Timbarra goldmine staged the largest action for some time on January 19, with the erection of four tripods on Timbarra Road, 30 kilometres south-east of
By Bill Mason BRISBANE — The crisis in Pauline Hanson's racist One Nation party has deepened. Hanson attacked the Queensland state MPs who resigned recently as "traitors", and warned that One Nation candidates would stand against the defectors.
By Norm Dixon United States and British warplanes are launching multiple air attacks every day against targets in northern and southern Iraq. Had US rockets not slammed into a working-class Basra neighbourhood and a village on January 25, coverage
Carr caves in to forest industry By Simon Kenny SYDNEY — Prior to the last NSW election, Premier Bob Carr promised to "end all export woodchipping of native forests by the year 2000". Given that the level of export woodchipping in NSW has