The average Australian household spends 2.3% more than it earns each week.
In 2002 household debt, at $431 billion, represented almost 60% of economic activity in Australia.
Current average household debt represents around 1.3 years of household
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Rich Bowden
The site where a French team conducted the first scientific experiments in Australia is now the subject of an international furor following the Tasmanian government's decision to ignore its own heritage council recommendation and allow
BY LISA SARAMEL
Checkpoint is a series of life-sized depictions of armed soldiers, which were to be placed at various locations in Blacktown in November 2004. The "checkpoints for weapons of mass distraction" were intended to confront people with
Jim McIlroy, Brisbane
The pay rises of up to 27% over three years recently announced for the Queensland power industry were "some late justice" for the sacking of 700 electricity workers in 1985, according to Bernie Neville. Neville was a leading
Sarah Stephen
Cornelia Rau is a very unlucky woman. She suffers from schizophrenia and escaped from a mental institution in Sydney last April. She was taken to a Queensland police station by Indigenous people she had been living with, but instead
Che Guevara and the Cuban RevolutionBy Mike GonzalezBookmarks 2004186 pages, $28
REVIEW BY CHRIS SLEE
Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution is a critique of Che's political theory and practice. Mike Gonzalez argues that Che's understanding of
SYDNEY — A packed February 2 opening of When the World Said No to War — an exhibition of images from the global anti-war protests of February 14-15, 2003 — heard from John Pilger, whose comments on the anti-war movement's need for
Zely Ariane has been the secretary-general of the Peoples Democratic Party (PRD) since 2003. Indonesia's only openly operating socialist party, It played a central role in the movement to overthrow Suharto between 1994 and 1998 and has been at the
According to the January 30 London Sunday Telegraph, a 25-year-old German woman faces cuts to her unemployment benefits after turning down a job as a prostitute at a Berlin brothel. When prostitution was legalised in Germany just two years ago,
On January 28, security forces at the Cairo Book Fair arrested three activists associated with the Center for Socialist Studies, and charged them with disseminating false propaganda against the ruling regime. The first to be arrested were Mawa
PERTH — The Socialist Alliance has announced that it will be running six candidates in the WA state elections, scheduled for February 26.
Ian Jamieson and Sam Wainwright, two Fremantle wharfies, are running for the Socialist Alliance in the South
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Sacked lifesavers picket base
WOLLONGONG — The crew of Wollongong's Westpac Life Saver Rescue Helicopter is continuing its five-week-long campaign to be reinstated. The crew was stood down on December 24 after voicing concerns about poor
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