SAN FRANCISCO — The richest US citizens are paying a declining share of their income even as their incomes grow more rapidly than everyone else's does. Yet President George W. Bush announced a budget that includes a tax cut proposal that will give
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BY ALISON DELLIT
Two separate inquiries into the Australian government's refugee detention centres have confirmed reports that detained refugees have been harassed and the centres mismanaged. The picture that has emerged is of desert hell-holes
BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS
MELBOURNE — Representatives of the International Socialist Organisation, Democratic Socialist Party, Freedom Socialist Party, Workers' Liberty, Workers' Power, Socialist Democracy, the Progressive Labor Party and the Worker
BY NICK EVERETT
SYDNEY — M1 Sydney's plans for a blockade of the city's financial district on May 1 took a significant step forward on March 8 with a successful media launch outside the Australian Stock Exchange's Bridge Street offices.
Two
Thousands of women and men turned out for International Women's Day rallies and marches around Australia last week.
From Sydney, Lisa Macdonald reports that more than 3000 people wound their way through the city centre on the morning of March 10
BY JACQUI THOMAS & SAM KING
ADELAIDE — High school students have defied an attempt to prevent
them attending a demonstration during school hours against One Nation leader
Pauline Hanson. While one student, Resistance member Jess Griffin,
BY JIM GREEN
Australia was the sixth largest land-clearing country last year, according to a report released by the Australian Conservation Foundation on March 1. The issue is now a political hot potato.
The ACF report, Australian Land Clearing,
BY TOM WILSON
The Native Forests Network recently conducted a bus tour of the old growth forests of Tasmania's Huon Valley. This was their response to Forestry Tasmania's advertising blitz which urged people to "gather as much information as
ADELAIDE — McDonald's decision to sponsor this year's Clean Up Australia Day came under attack here on March 4, when 30 people protested outside the multinational's Rundle Mall store in protest at its hypocrisy.
Representatives of the S11
BY DOD ROSHANBIN
BRISBANE — Ross Daniels of Amnesty International told a public meeting here on March 1 that a 200-inmate immigration detention centre is planned for a yet to be revealed Brisbane site.
Daniels also said that the federal ALP's
BY JACKIE LYNCH& AMANDA PEARSON
MELBOURNE — Fifty members and supporters of the Democratic Socialist Party and Resistance celebrated the opening of the DSP Melbourne northeast branch's new Resistance Centre on busy High Street, Northcote, on
BY VANYA TANAJA
DILI — The "Draft Regulation on the Election of a Constituent Assembly to draft the Constitution of an Independent and Democratic East Timor" was presented to East Timor's National Council by the United Nations Transitional
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