BY KAMALA EMANUEL
HOBART — In a move that has shocked workers in women's and children's refuges, the Tasmanian Labor government announced plans on May 11 to close one of the four refuges in the south of the state, while the other three will have
450
BY MARIA VOUKELATOS
SYDNEY — Coming hard on the heels of launches of local Socialist
Alliance groups across the city, 25 students at Sydney University gathered
on May 23 to launch the alliance on their campus.
Student activist Dom Rowe,
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — Seventy of ship-builder Incat's 900 workers finished work on May 25 after accepting voluntary redundancies. The company extended an earlier deadline for workers to apply for redundancies but threatened forced sackings
BY SEAN HEALY
Organisers of the protest against the Commonwealth Business Council
Forum point to the record of the corporate leaders involved as motivation
for their action.
Hugh Morgan, chief executive, Western Mining Corporation,
BY DAVID BASS
LAHORE — A 250-strong demonstration at the Lahore Press Club has supported a boycott by social and political organisations here of World Bank consultations for a new "Country Assistance Strategy".
Representatives of the Joint
BY SUE BULL
GEELONG — Victorian teachers are set to strike on June 19, if the Premier Steve Bracks' Labor government does not reconsider its allocation of funds for education.
The Australian Education Union has called on pre-school, primary,
BY SEAN HEALY
One of the corporations which had a direct part in drawing up George W Bush's new energy policy was Houston-based corporate giant Enron, a US$100 billion empire which trades energy in every corner of the world.
Enron and its chief
BY EVA CHENG
Failing to coopt the activists who were planning to protest at its Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE) in Barcelona on June 25-27, the World Bank announced on May 19 that the meeting has been called off.
BY SEAN WALSH
George Pell, the newly appointed Catholic archbishop of Sydney, is once again under attack from angry community groups, in particular those at the sharp end of Pell's bigoted, anti-gay and anti-lesbian stick.
Sydney gay and lesbian
BY MELANIE SJOBERG
Workplace relations minister Tony Abbott has called for an inquiry
into the construction industry, alleging widespread corruption, fraud and
intimidation of workers. What this really represents is a blatant political
BY ALISON DELLIT
The Australian Financial Review's May 23 headlines said it all, "There's a hole where the surplus used to be", "Even the 1.5 billion isn't as good as it looks" and, on May 24, "The incredible shrinking surplus".
Behind the
BY SIBYLLE KACZOREK & JO ELLIS
DARWIN — The AIDS Council's annual candlelight vigil, held on May 20, provided solidarity for those living with HIV and encouraged people to join the fight against discrimination and oppression.
Gary Meyerhoff,
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