BY FEDERICO FUENTES
Student activists at Melbourne University are determined to defend fellow students who face disciplinary action, even expulsion, over their part in an April 5 protest against university privatisation - and have appealed for
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BY SEAN HEALY
The military regime which has ruled Burma for nearly 40 years may be about to not only release opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest but form a power-sharing government with her party, the National League for
BY GARY MEYERHOFF
There's an election brewing in the Northern Territory: the ruling Country Liberal Party has passed an act to extend police powers, the Anti-Social Conduct and Public Order Act, and suddenly illicit drug use has become a hot
BY KYLIE MOON
ASTON — More than 150 people attended a July 8 forum to discuss environmental issues in the July 14 Aston by-election. The forum was organised by The Wilderness Society (TWS) and the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF).
Founding conference approaches
Socialist Alliance will hold a founding national conference in Melbourne on August 4-5.
The conference will adopt a platform and constitution for the alliance, and discuss the coming federal elections. Vigorous
BY SEAN HEALY
@box text intr = In order to qualify for what debt relief is on offer, poor countries must jump through many hoops.
Qualify as "IDA": In order to qualify for debt relief, a Third World country must first be deemed eligible for
SAN FRANCISCO - In a small victory for legal immigrants, the US Supreme Court weakened a series of laws adopted by Congress in 1996 that limited the rights of foreign-born legal residents. The decisions by a narrow 5 to 4 margin means the immigration
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NSW Police Association president Ian Ball writes a poignant letter to Workers Online (29/6) about the "moral dilemma" of being a police
BY MELANIE SJOBERG
The web-based Workers Online (<www.workers.labor.net.au>) published by the NSW Labor Council received a major plug in the June 5 Media supplement of the Australian. Workers Online was praised for offering innovative
"For those who've come across the seas, we've boundless plains to share." — From Advance Australia Fair.
It's an irony that despite the refrain of the Australian national anthem, many people express alarm and fear about an immigration policy
BY NORM DIXON
JOHANNESBURG — A political publicity stunt by the Pan Africanist Congress has snowballed into a major confrontation between homeless and land hungry people and the African National Congress government. The failure of the ANC to
BY SHANE BENTLEY
NEWCASTLE — Friday July 13 was an unlucky day for federal defence minister Peter Reith. Newcastle business leaders were not the only people he met at the Forgacs Dockyard in Carrington.
More than 100 Forgacs workers, members of
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