People who know me will agree I'm an unassuming and moderate person who doesn't like bad language. So I was shocked to hear that at a meeting of teacher unionists in Kempsey on June 21, Andrew Stoner, leader of the NSW Nationals, had called Kevin
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The following reports give a flavour of the June 28 national protest against Work Choices around the country.
Karen Fletcher reports that between 80,000 (police estimate) and 150,000 (Trades Hall estimate) workers gridlocked central Melbourne
Jim Green
The military and its civil arms have a history of forcing uranium mines, nuclear reactors, radioactive waste dumps and nuclear weapons tests on Indigenous peoples' lands. This history of radioactive racism is one of oppression, but also
Sandy Whelan
In the lead-up to the June 28 union protests against the Work Choices laws, Australia Post issued a number of bulletins warning staff that taking industrial action under the current enterprise agreement was illegal and that
Allen Myers, Phnom Penh
Several hundred members and supporters of the Women's Network for Unity (WNU), the union of sex workers, gathered on June 28 to celebrate the organisation's sixth anniversary.
The events began on the bank of the Tonle Sap
In George Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman, Act 3, a group of brigands sit near a road high in the Sierra Nevada in Spain, discussing politics. Mendoza, their leader, presides over a discussion ranging from anarchism to social democracy. Suddenly the
Alex Miller, London
Some 220 members of the University and College Union (UCU) met at the London Metropolitan University on June 24 to launch the UCU Left, an organised progressive platform within the 120,000-strong union, which was formed when the
Kerry Smith
Single parents and their children face income cuts of $20-$50 per week from July 1 as government changes to income support, child support and family law take effect, Dr Elspeth McInnes, convener of the National Council of Single Mothers
Tony Iltis, Melbourne
Margarita Windisch, the Socialist Alliance candidate for the seat of Footscray in the November 25 Victorian state elections, has condemned a Footscray police proposed scheme, dubbed Project Reduction, that would give
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REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
It is the last decades of the 19th century in the US and women are stirring. Elizabeth Cady Stanton lectures and writes on the right of women to vote. Her
John Vidovich & Rachel Evans
After campaigning for over a year, queer students at Western Australia's Edith Cowan University (ECU) have finally won a space for the use of queer students, — as exists on most campuses.
"Women's and indigenous
Anna Samson
Following last year's deal with four Liberal MPs, it seemed that the Howard government had finally acknowledged that children do not belong in immigration detention. It was tempting to believe this was the beginning of a reversal of the
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