BY JOHN GAUCI
SYDNEY — More than 800 schools were shut down in NSW on September 17. The 24-hour strike also closed colleges and TAFEs across NSW, as tens of thousands of primary, secondary, TAFE and trainee teachers took part.
The industrial
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BY JOHN NICHOLS
Later this year, the American Recordings label will release a collection of Johnny Cash songs which will include a collaboration with one of the legendary country singer's greatest fans, the late Joe Strummer. The pair's version of
BY ROHAN PEARCE
An investigation by the Washington Post's Vernon Loeb has revealed that the number of US troops in Iraq who are being officially classified "wounded in action" is around 10 per day. The number of soldiers injured by the Iraqi
BY SUE BULL
MELBOURNE — Across Australia, 100,000 teachers poured out of their schools throughout Australia on September 17 in the biggest teacher action that has ever taken place in this country, and the biggest single-profession national strike
BY NIKKI ULASOWSKI
PERTH — At its meeting on September 18 the Perth No War Alliance decided to change its planned October 25 protest, in order to hold a protest coinciding with the visit to Australia of US President George Bush.
The new
BY RIHAB CHARIDA
The emergence of the Al Aqsa Intifada (uprising) in September 2000 was inevitable. For years before, Palestinian population centres remained enclosed by a strict Israeli military cordon. The Palestinian people were being denied the
BY MICK BULL
After two years and more than $60 million of taxpayers' money, the recommendations from the federal government's building industry royal commission have been put into proposed legislation. The draft Building and Construction Industry
BY SUSAN AUSTIN
DUBLIN — Nine women's rights, women's health and civil liberties organisations came together for a press conference in Dublin's Shelbourne Hotel on September 5 to mark the 20th anniversary of the passing of the Eighth Amendment to
BY ROBYN MARSHALL
Ernie Gare died on August 17 at the age of 86. He was a member of the Communist Party of Australia from 1941 until the party dissolved itself in 1992, and a sympathiser of the Democratic Socialist Party thereafter.
Ernie's
BY BILL MASON
BRISBANE — Queensland Liberal senator Brett Mason has been accused of being a "dummy-spitting bigot", after he criticised the acknowledgment of traditional land owners at citizenship ceremonies.
Mason used a citizenship day speech
BY PIP HINMAN
SYDNEY — David Hicks, who has been held at the US military base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba for almost two years. His father, Terry, told 130 people attending a public meeting at the Trades Hall Auditorium on September 20 that he
BY MEGAN CONNOR
SYDNEY — On September 11, 100 students participated in a student general meeting at the University of Western Sydney's Bankstown campus. They voted defend the autonomy of the Bankstown Student Association, which is threatened by
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