BY CHRIS SLEE
MELBOURNE — The Australian Tax Office is preparing to sack thousands of its workers, following a 9% cut in the department's funding announced in the May federal budget.
The tax office has taken on several thousand new workers in
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Starting From ZeroA documentary by Mandy King & Fabio CavadiniScreening on SBS, Friday, August 17, 8.30pm
REVIEW BY FIONA CROCKFORD
Starting from Zero profiles the return home in October 1999 of three East Timorese exiles following the decisive
Seven years after the African National Congress swept to office on the promise of "a better life for all", the patience of South Africa's working class and poor is wearing thin. Across the country, community organisation and mobilisation is beginning
BY IGGY KIM
Left parties and activists around the world have enthusiastically welcomed a further step in the international process of socialist renewal and regroupment. The Socialist Alliance's first national conference received 41 greetings of
Just ArtShowing August 8-1531 Woods Street, Darwin
REVIEW BY JO ELLIS
Opened by Dadang Christano on August 8, this eclectic collection of artworks by local and international artists, explored the themes of democracy, peace and freedom.
Taring
BY SEAN HEALY
Humans have made all kinds of nifty things — the axe, the wheel, the spinning jenny, the aeroplane, the pill, the Pentium III computer chip — and achieved all sorts of things with them. But these inventions have not freed society.
Sydney community radio station 2SER's annual radiothon is on again — and
the station is after your support.
The radiothon, which began on August 10 and runs until August 17, is one of the main ways by which the station, long a centre of
BY LEIGH HUGHES
CANBERRA — A common lament heard on university campuses around Australia in the last month has been: "Damn, it's the third term." It reflects the level of enthusiasm for the student government election period. Years of
BY SAM WAINWRIGHT
SYDNEY — Seventy-two workers at the Metroshelf factory in Revesby, in Sydney's west, have won their jobs back after a two-month struggle.
The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union had been pursuing an unfair dismissal claim
BY SEAN HEALY
While they undoubtedly thought that brutality would fix everything, things are only getting worse for Italy's authorities, with ever more condemnations coming from ever wider circles of their violent attempts to put down anti-G8
BY EVA CHENG
Companies in the US planned to lay off 205,975 workers in July, 65% more than in June. These new cuts bring the total US job losses so far this year to nearly a million, three times those over the same period last year.
Such cuts are
BY NOREEN NAVIN
SYDNEY — Teachers and parents in Dulwich Hill, in Sydney's inner west, are rallying to defend their local high school, appealing for statewide industrial action if the NSW government decides to close the school.
The two-month
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