BY RUTH RATCLIFFE
"They were all swept along by the one idea: that they might still get through the adjoining disused mine if they could get there before the way was cut off... In their frightened hearts old slumbering beliefs came back to
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BY VANNESSA HEARMAN
MELBOURNE — The Moreland City Council is proposing rate increases as high as 22%. The rate increases, which are scheduled for September, are the highest ever proposed in Victoria and are as high as seven times the inflation
BY JONATHAN STRAUSS
Around a thousand people participated in rallies across the country commemorating the 57th anniversary of the US nuclear attacks on the Japanese cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima at the end of World War II.
In Sydney, some 500
and aint i a woman: Refugees: A feminist issue
Figures from the office of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) indicate that 51% of refugees are female. The oppression and exploitation of the Third World forces millions of
1000 sign to oppose refugee policy
HOBART — More than 1000 people have signed a handmade, leather-bound book in one week to demonstrate their dissent from the federal government's refugee policies.
The project was launched by Tasmanians for
BY LISA MACDONALD
SYDNEY — August 6 was the 12th anniversary of the imposition of sanctions
on Iraq by the United States. To mark the day and demand that the sanctions
be lifted unconditionally, a 24-hour picket was staged outside the US
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BY MARK WEISBROT
WASHINGTON, DC — Last week's trip to South America by US treasury secretary Paul O'Neill is Washington's latest response to growing discontent about economic failure in the developing world.
O'Neill, who has become known for
A ceasefire between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation
Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the organisation fighting for the national self-determination
of the Tamil people in the island's north and east, has lasted almost six
months.
BY ROHAN PEARCE
The suffering of ordinary Palestinians inflicted by the Israeli occupation since September 2000 extends beyond the almost 1700 killed and the more than 20,000 injured by the Israeli army and paramilitary "settlers".
A new report
BY JIM McILROY
BRISBANE — Centrelink, the federal government's social payment delivery
agency, is demanding that its staff agree to work seven days a week at
standard pay. Workers would be rostered as required by management, rather
than
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