BY ANTHONY BENBOW
PERTH — On October 10, 125,000 homes in Western Australia lost electricity when a computer fault caused the Collie power station to shut down for two-and-a-half hours. This followed widespread blackouts in the south-west area of
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BY BOB GOULD
In 1966, the Vietnam War was still fairly popular, and the jingoistic patriotism of the previous period in Australia was still predominant. In this context, it is hard to understate the courageousness of federal Labor leader Arthur
BY JOHN GAUCI
SYDNEY — Members of the NSW branches of the Socialist Alliance will meet on November 8 for the alliance's NSW conference. Its theme is "Regime change begins at home: unite for socialism!". Socialist Alliance NSW committee member
BY NIKKI ULASOWSKI
PERTH — Around 60 members and supporters of the Socialist Alliance attended the organisation's WA conference on October 12. A variety of workshops and plenary sessions were held, discussing topics such as fighting governments'
BY MALIK MIAH
SAN FRANCISCO — In a referendum that coincided with the election for California's governor, voters rejected Proposition 54 — the "Racial Privacy Initiative" — by an almost two-to-one margin. Drafted and aggressively promoted by
BY NORM DIXON
MANILA — At least 50,000 people mobilised across the Philippines on October 18 as US President George Bush, arrived for an eight-hour visit.
At least 10,000 people jammed the main thoroughfare leading to the House of
BY NORM DIXON
In a humiliating backdown, Bolivia's president Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada resigned as president on October 17 and fled to the United States. Lozada resigned as his last remaining supporters in cabinet deserted him in the face of huge
In early September, the organisers of Lesfest, a national lesbian festival and conference, were granted an exemption under Victoria's Equal Opportunity Act to allow the event to be advertised as being for "female-born lesbians".
Explaining their
BY ROHAN PEARCE
A little over two years ago, on October 7, 2001, US President George Bush announced that the Pentagon had begun air strikes against Afghanistan in preparation for a US invasion. The bombing campaign marked the official start of the
Grief in Bali
The world today is full of grief. The wars, poverty, disease and cultural disruption wrought by imperial policies of plunder, conquest, humiliation and exploitation are producing an ocean of tears and agony.
How many times a day on
BY IAN JAMIESON
FREMANTLE — The battle to save the popular South Beach is gathering pace, with a public rally being organised on the beach on October 26, at 11am, called by residents and beach users. The rally aims to stop powerful property
BY ARUN PRADHAN
Libraries standing empty and university lectures being cancelled would normally alarm people concerned with quality education, but on October 16 — when up to 40,000 university staff went on strike across Australia — the sight
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