Protest against Hanson's One Nation
By Justin Randell
WOLLONGONG — Pauline Hanson has been in the news again. Not content with her racist rhetoric, she is revealing more of her reactionary agenda by arguing that young people should be kept off
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By Zanny Begg and Marina Carman
One of the most controversial recommendations of the West review of higher education was the proposal for "student centred funding" — vouchers or "learning accounts" for higher education. The rhetoric that
Resistance campaigns to support the wharfies
By Kerryn Williams
MELBOURNE — Resistance has been campaigning to build support among young people for the struggle of the maritime workers. Resistance activist Mark Abberton explained, "As soon as
On February 16, members of the Maritime Union of Australia ended their 18-day strike at Webb Dock, Port Melbourne, following an Australian Industrial Relations Commission order to return to work. At the same meeting, it was decided to launch a
By Norm Dixon
The United States is moving inexorably towards another bloodbath in Iraq. Disregarding overwhelming worldwide opposition and hampering proposals for peaceful compromise, Washington seems determined to launch a massive, unilateral air
Mock funeral warns against Badgerys Creek airport
By Gail Lord
SYDNEY — On February 15 a mock funeral cavalcade left the proposed Badgerys Creek airport site and proceeded to Warragamba Dam, to dramatise the dangers of noise and water
By Bridget Riggs
MELBOURNE — About 600 people attended a Defenders of Native Title (DONT) public meeting on February 15 in the Melbourne Town Hall. Speakers included former Democrat senator Sid Spindler of the DONT coordinating committee, singer
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Should or shouldn't men be encouraged to actively participate in the feminist movement? What business is it of theirs anyway? How would it affect women's role in their own movement?
These questions have been hotly debated for decades,
Anti-war anger in the heartland
By Barry Sheppard
"One, two, three four! We don't want your racist war!", was the shout that greeted US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright as she took the podium to defend Washington's policy before what was
Hong Kong democracy activist fined
By Eva Cheng
Veteran pro-democracy activist Leung Kwok-Hung was fined by a Hong Kong magistrate on February 17 and given a "good behaviour" order for six months for protesting last July 16 against the
IWD live to air on 2SER-FM
SYDNEY — As women take to the streets of Sydney on Saturday, March 7 — International Women's Day — community radio 2SER-FM (107.3) will take to the airwaves between 11am and 5pm to present a unique day of
By Francesca Davis
"White people have four seasons, but we have only two: the wet and the dry, the high and the low of the river. The land rules the seasons for us. In the dry, we know the pools where the big fish have stayed. In the floods we know
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