BRISBANE — A protest was held outside state parliament on March 2 in solidarity with the Palm Island community and the family of Mulrunji Doomadgee, who died in police custody in November. The protest demanded the sacking of Labor Premier Peter
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Sue Bolton
Both Coalition and Labor federal governments have traditionally opposed ACTU applications to the Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC) for annual for increases to the minimum wage.
However, it is only since Prime Minister
Doug Lorimer
US President George Bush's "broad coalition" of countries participating in the US-led "multinational force" (MNF) occupying Iraq is steadily shrinking. Since Spain's pull-out of its 1300 troops last April, a dozen other countries have
On March 1, Uruguay formally resumed diplomatic relations with Cuba, which had been broken in 2002 by right-wing president Jorge Batlle. Cuban foreign minister Felipe Perez Roque, in Uruguay for the inauguration of new President Tabare Vasquez,
Ian Jamieson, Fremantle
After four weeks on strike, 430 workers involved in the expansion of the BHP-owned Worsley Alumina plant near Bunbury in south-west Western Australia appear close to victory in a dispute in which individual strikers were
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