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
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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
Looking at a map of the world, where would you expect to find a clandestine nuclear project? A project shrouded in secrecy that is attempting to make the process of enriching uranium cheaper, easier and more mobile? An attempt to develop technology
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
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,
The Public Broadcasting Service pulled an episode of the children's television show Postcards From Buster on January 26 because it featured lesbian parents. In the episode, cartoon rabbit Buster visited the home of real-life children and their "mom
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
After the debacle that was Mark Latham's exit from politics, the decline in the fortunes of the Australian Labor Party proceeds unabated.
With a state poll fast approaching in Western Australia — which may see Labor lose office there — any hope
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
Rohan Pearce
For most activists in the global anti-war movement, it's obvious that the US-engineered January 30 elections in Iraq have not ushered in a new era of democracy nor fundamentally changed the nature of the brutal, US-led occupation. But
Chris Latham, Perth
Just three weeks before Western Australia goes to the polls, the nine-month-long nurses dispute over a new certified agreement has come to a head. The Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) is considering an offer made by the
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
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