BY RUTH RATCLIFFE
DARWIN — On June 13, education minister Brendan Nelson came to Darwin for the Australian National Training Authority Ministerial Council's launch of the National Training Complaints Hotline. The council was greeted by protesters
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BY ALISON DELLIT
On June 9, Prime Minister John Howard revealed his utter contempt for democracy. In proposing to de-fang the Senate, Howard wants to ensure his government's ability to force through unpopular legislation without having to go to an
BY ROHAN PEARCE
"For us, the war is still going on", a US soldier in the town of Samarra, north of Baghdad, told the London Financial Times on May 30. He showed the FT's correspondent the impact marks from mortar rounds and rocket-propelled
BY DOUG LORIMER
Washington's campaign to brand Iran as being in violation of its obligations under the 1970 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) will be bolstered by a report from the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
The report,
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BY NIKOLAI HADDAD
In his reply to my article, "55 years of oppression: Palestinians demand freedom!" (Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly #539), Sol Salbe (GLW #541) correctly notes that it was the United Nations General Assembly, and not the UN Security Council,
BY AARON BENEDEK & ANDREW MARTIN
SYDNEY — Around 50 people met in the south-western suburb of Yagoona on June 13 to discuss how to combat racism and police harassment in the local community.
The evening, organised by Bankstown Books Not Bombs,
BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS
MELBOURNE — On June 17, a left-wing activist will appear in the Sunshine Magistrates Court accused of illegally distributing leaflets.
Socialist Alliance member Tony Iltis has been charged with handing out leaflets at the
BY ANGELA VECCHIO
MELBOURNE — Australian Manufacturing Workers Union members at Stramit Building Products in Preston have won the first round of a struggle for a new enterprise bargaining agreement (EBA).
The workers' claim is based on the
BY MAX LANE
When Hasan de Tiro proclaimed the independent state of Aceh and launched the Aceh Sumatra National Liberation Front, also known as the Free Aceh Movement (GAM), in 1978, he attracted little support.
Contrary to the myth-making of the
BY JOHN PERCY
Some supporters of Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly have established a national archive of Australian and international political posters. This collection now numbers several thousand, spanning nearly four decades.
Steve O'Brien from Newcastle is
BY JEFF SHANTZ
TORONTO — The recent outbreaks of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) here are shining a harsh light on the inadequacies and outright failures of neoliberal public health policies and practices. It also shows clearly the
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