Sarah Stephen
At 11.20am on November 19, a 36-year-old Aboriginal man, Cameron Doomadgee, died in the police watch-house on Palm Island, 70km north of Townsville. An hour earlier he was very much alive, singing along the street. He was arrested for
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Jim McIlroy & Margarita Windisch, Ballarat
"The spirit of Eureka has always been part of the progressive trade union movement", environmentalist and former NSW Builders Labourers Federation secretary Jack Mundey told a crowd of several hundred at
The Bush administration thinks it has political "capital". And it plans on spending some to destroy women's right to choose abortion.
Tucked away in the omnibus spending bill approved by Congress last month was a provision that would allow
The brutal imposition of martial law and the use of armed Tactical Response Group officers against the Aboriginal community on Palm Island has shocked many Australians. Yet another Indigenous person has died in police custody. Yet another community
Sarah Stephen, Sydney
Early on the morning of December 1, Refugee Action Coalition activist Mark Goudkamp got a knock on his door. He opened it to find eight Australian Federal Police officers and immigration department officials.
The AFP
Sam Wainwright, Perth
On November 25, 300 workers employed by Leighton Contractors on the construction of the Perth to Mandurah railway won a significant victory in their fight for better night shift penalties.
Negotiations between the
Frederico Fuentes
With a Coalition majority in both houses of parliament from July 1 next year, federal education minister Brendan Nelson has signalled his intention to move forward with key elements of his higher education "reform" package
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Prostitution law opposed
DARWIN — On December 1, the Scarlet Alliance, a national sex workers' rights group, held a World AIDS Day public forum to highlight issues surrounding the unjust and discriminatory sex worker law in the Northern
Raul Bassi
Under the slogan "less work so we can all work", around 5000 people filled one of the historic places for the Argentine working class, Federacion del Box, on October 29.
Delegates and representatives from different unions — including
On November 11, under instruction from the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, federal police raided the Canberra offices of the National Indigenous Times to search for leaked government documents. NIT editor Chris Graham spoke to Â鶹´«Ã½
The Polar ExpressWritten and directed by Robert Zemeckis
Based on the book by Chris Van AllsburgWith Tom Hanks, Chris Coppola and Nona Gaye
REVIEW BY NICOLE HILDER
The Polar Express is a tale of Christmas Eve re-education. A mysterious train
No politician wants to be associated with the James Hardie scandal. Who can blame them? Australia has the world's highest per capita incidence of mesothelioma, one of the painful forms of cancer caused by exposure to asbestos fibres. By 2020, 18,000
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