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Somewhere this Saturday night in cold and miserable
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By Branny Schembri
MELBOURNE — It was announced on February 4 that the government is establishing a scheme for schools to be supported by private business donations and sponsorships. The project will be run by Alister Maitland, chairperson of the
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
... and ain't I a woman?: Equal pay victory
After a two-year battle, Sydney electronics manufacturer HPM has finally agreed to union demands for an enterprise bargaining agreement ensuring equal pay for work of equal value. Women at this plant
By Allen Myers
On February 3, Helen Coonan, a Liberal senator from NSW and the government's deputy whip in the Senate, delivered a speech on "reform" of the Senate to the Sydney Institute, a right-wing think-tank. An abridged version of the speech,
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 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
New MUA rank and file web page
The MUA Rank-and-File movement has given itself a national voice and discussion forum with the establishment of a web page. The address is <http://www.angelfire.com/ma/rank/index.html>.
By Vannessa Hearman
More than 60 police were brought from around central Queensland to the Gordonstone coalmine near Emerald on February 11 as 250 unionists solidified their picket line near the entrance to the site. Twenty-two picketers were
Correction
In last week's Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly the article on the resignation of Queensland MUA organiser Jeff Langdon contained the following sentence: "Langdon claimed the branch leadership did not send copies of his resignation letter to ships
War memorials
War and Capitalism is the Science of Euphemism. No photos of mutilated soldiers were printed, only the clear enrollment faces. People did not expect big casualties. The Boer War had few Australian casualties.
Like shearers, soldiers
By Marce Cameron
PERTH — The forest campaign in Western Australia has focused on blockades, in which small groups of protesters chain themselves to trees and machinery or construct elaborate tree-houses. The blockades have helped to keep the
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