BY MARY MERKENICH
For the first time, education unions across Australia are planning to take co-ordinated action to protest against the pay offers to teachers and education funding policies of state governments. NSW, Victorian and WA teachers and
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COLOMBIA: Coca-Cola sues workers' union
The Panamco Colombia (Coca-Cola's Colombian branch) has filed charges of slander in the Southern Federal District Court of Florida against the leadership of the
UWS funding protest
SYDNEY — Thirty students and staff at the Kingswood campus of the University of Western Sydney protested on September 4 against the federal government's planned cuts to university funding, under which UWS stands to lose over
BY CHRIS SLEE
MELBOURNE — On September 5, 600 people participated in a rally and march to defend and extend Medicare. The rally was called in response to the federal government's refusal to ensure universal free access to general practitioners'
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BY BRADLEY SIMS
ALBANY, WA — A soccer team will be dismantled, teachers feel their work is futile, workers will lose work-mates, landlords will lose tenants, friends will lose friends, businesses will lose customers and a local abattoir will lose
HOBART — The Wilderness Society's "corporate campaign" against woodchipping company Gunns Ltd resulted in an extraordinary general meeting of the company on August 29. A motion calling on the company to stop woodchipping in high-conservation
BY NIKOLAI HADDAD
On August 30 in Melbourne, opposition leader Simon Crean delivered an address at the Werdiger Family Hall. The event was organised by the Australia-Israel and Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC), the State Zionist Council of Victoria
Jewish historian Reuven Moskovitz, who was awarded Germany's prestigious Aachen Peace Prize on September 1, fired a broadside at the Israeli government during his acceptance speech.
The outspoken award winner used the glittering occasion to launch
Inside the walls of Florida State Prison on September 3, Paul Hill, who shot and killed a doctor and a volunteer escort at a Pensacola abortion clinic in 1994, remained unrepentant until death. Hill, the first US anti-abortion terrorist to be
Obviously not addressing GIs in Iraq
"All over the world, all across this globe, everywhere you go, people long for ... the ability to get up in the morning, walk out your door and not have to look in every direction to make sure that someone won't
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