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BY CHRIS SLEE MELBOURNE — On February 5, the Industrial Relations Commission began a hearing on the dispute between Yallourn Energy and the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union. The CFMEU is appealing against the termination of its
BY GRANT COLEMAN PERTH — More than 500 issues of Student Underground, a new newsletter produced by secondary students which promotes International Women's Day and the May 1 blockade of the city's stock exchange, have been greeted with enthusiasm
The Australian Bureau of Agricultural Resource Economics (ABARE) released its report on the outcome of dairy deregulation on January 30. It confirmed that in the six months since the final stage of dairy deregulation was implemented on July 1, 200
BY PETER BOYLE  Following the January 25 call by the Democratic Socialist Party for a socialist electoral alliance to contest the coming federal elections, a formation meeting on February 17 has been convened jointly by the DSP and
Silencing cyberspace? Really annoyed about something? Want to get your message across, but you don't own a newspaper, radio or television station? You can always buy a can of spray paint and find a local wall. That sounds simplistic,
BY MARGARET ALLUM "In his attempt at reinventing himself, Ariel Sharon is claiming supernatural powers — i.e. the ability to accomplish the impossible", wrote Hanan Ashrawi, Palestinian parliamentarian and professor at Birzeit University, in
BY GEOFF FRANCIS HOBART — Environmentalist Sarah Bayne turned herself in to the Hobart magistrates' court on February 6 for non-payment of a $5000 fine imposed in 1998 after she was arrested in a protest at Mother Cummings Peak. Bayne had
BY EVA CHENG Whether the US economy is plunging into a recession is the $64 million question of the day. Preliminary data for the December quarter suggests that US gross domestic product was growing at an annual rate of only 1.4% at the end of
Vigil for refugees MELBOURNE — The Refugee Action Alliance is to begin a weekly vigil at Maribyrnong detention centre from February 25, in the hope it will give people to an opportunity to see for themselves the situation of detained
BY KATH O'DRISCOLL LISMORE — Plans are underway here to organise International Women's Day, the region's first for two years. Women from different parts of the region having been meeting to prepare a march and rally, multicultural fair day, art
NUS factionalism My article, titled "Why Resistance left the National Broad Left" in Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Weekly #435, unintentionally omitted some important details. Controversy about the carve-up of official positions brokered between the "left" Labor
BY JIM BRADLEY February 10 is the 25th anniversary of the start of Australia's longest teachers' strike: the month-long action taken by teachers at Warilla High School, on NSW's south coast, for adequate staffing. This monumental strike should be