Socialist seminar discusses racism
BY SAM WAINWRIGHT
SYDNEY — Mandatory sentencing laws and "zero tolerance" policing were part of a deliberate attempt to catch indigenous people in the criminal justice system, Aboriginal activist Kim Bullimore
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Teachers plan state-wide strikes
BY BILL MASON
BRISBANE — After teachers at Sarina High School near Mackay walked off the job for 24 hours on May 23, the Queensland Teachers Union has warned that unless Premier Peter Beattie began serious talks
In early April, a Texas jury recommended that Kenneth Payne, 29, spend 16 years in jail. Payne's crime?: stealing a Snickers bar from a Tyler grocery store on December 17. When Smith county assistant district attorney Jodi Brown was asked by the
Iranian workers protest ILO conference
Iranian workers' organisations have called on their supporters worldwide to assist their demand to bar Iranian government representatives from an International Labour Organisation conference, scheduled to
BY KIM BULLIMORE
SYDNEY — While Prime Minister John Howard was preparing to speak at the handover of the Document of Reconciliation at the Sydney Opera House on May 27, a group of protesters from the Indigenous Students Network (ISN) and their
Networker: Control freaks
Shock! Horror! Racism has been found on the internet. Searchers have discovered web sites encouraging race hatred. Of course, all other vestiges of racism have been eradicated. Governments have ensured that racial
Nike: How transnationals profit from human misery
BY LINDA WALDRON
MELBOURNE — On June 6, footwear and sports clothes giant Nike will appear in the Federal Court here, charged with breaches of Australian labour laws. This is a result of a
Log of claims campaign launched on La Trobe
BY CHRIS ATKINSON
MELBOURNE — Drawing inspiration from student campaigns at the University of Western Sydney, Bankstown, and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, students at La Trobe
ZIMBABWE: Can the MDC solve the crisis?
The popular trade union-backed Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) poses the greatest threat that President Robert Mugabe's corrupt and authoritarian Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF)
Wollongong students say no to internet fees BY CHRIS LATHAM WOLLONGONG — In the second such demonstration in a week, 100 Wollongong University students marched on the administration offices on May 24 to demand progress on a log of claims and
We are all reconciled
I reckon I'm pretty much reconciled.
— You do?
Yep. I'm much more reconciled than I was last week.
— That's great. But I have a question.
Shoot.
— What is there to be reconciled about?
Where have you
Truck owner-drivers blockade over pay rates
BY JIM McILROY
BRISBANE — Truck owner-drivers blockaded the Cunningham Highway between Brisbane and Toowoomba as part of a national Transport Workers Union campaign for improved cartage rates. TWU
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