Dick Nichols
It's the lying rodent's favourite statistic in the "battle of ideas" over his government's new industrial relations legislation: on average, real wages have risen 12 times more in the last nine years of the John Howard government (14%)
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Eva Cheng, Hanoi
Around 100 solidarity and left-wing activists travelled here from some 40 countries on August 31-September 2 to join the 82 million Vietnamese people in celebrating their 60 years of hard-won independence.
Throughout several days
Survival International reported on September 5 that Bushmen in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve have been threatened at gunpoint by wildlife guards in an attempt to force them to abandon their homes. This is part of a crackdown by Botswana's
Defend democratic rights!
In the last month it has become clearer than ever that the so-called war on terror is being used as a pretext to destroy civil liberties and democratic rights in Australia.
The "national security" and "anti-terror" laws
Tim O'Connor
On September 15, 1975, the Australian flag was lowered for the last time in Papua New Guinea. It was a momentous occasion and an historic day for PNG, but 30 years on the shadow of Australia still has a large bearing on life in that
Tim Stewart, Canberra
"We used to have freedom to fish and to swim in our lagoon, but now we have freedom no more", Yat Paol, a visiting activist from Papua New Guinea, told a September 9 forum organised by Aid/Watch and hosted by Greens ACT
Jim Dowling
On September 1, I was introduced to the pre-emptive strike Brisbane-style.
Admittedly, it was mild compared to the more than 100,000 dead and many more living in terror and poverty in Iraq. Still, such thoughts were far from my mind
Marg Gleeson
Ever since the shock resignations last month of the NSW Labor government's three top ministers, it has been a turbulent time in state politics.
It started with new premier, Morris Iemma, and then-opposition leader John Brogden
Kim Bullimore
In a letter to the August 25 Australian Jewish News (AJN), federal Labor MP for Melbourne Ports Michael Danby launched a "pre-emptive strike" on a yet-to-be published book, Voices of Reason, which explores the pro-Israel lobby in
Socialist feminist Linda Averill, a bus driver and a union activist, is campaigning as a Freedom Socialist Party candidate for the September 20 Seattle City Council election. She is backed by her union, Amalgamated Transit Local 587, as well as other
Sarah Stephen
The immigration department's website claims that as of August 26 there were 667 people still being held in detention. The department does not include in those figures the 27 asylum seekers remaining on Nauru. Villawood detention
On September 16, 1982, under the protection of the Israeli military, then led by the current Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, right-wing Lebanese Christian militias entered the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut. They murdered
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