Now that PM John Howard has announced the abolition of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, his project of crushing every vestige of "special treatment" for Indigenous people is complete.
Mark Latham stole his thunder, by
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Will and Dave are committed to repaying reasonable cleanup costs for the removal of their artwork on the Sydney Opera House. The current bill stands at $151,000, of which more than $40,000 has already been paid.
All donations will be very
Doug Lorimer
If the US troops leave Iraq, "violence will fill the vacuum as groups struggle for political power, and we risk all-out civil war", John McCain, a leading Republican member of the US Senate armed services committee, declared in a April
Nick Everett, Canberra
More than 60 people rallied outside the Israeli embassy on May 1, including supporters of Australians for Justice and Peace in Palestine and a delegation of Palestine solidarity activists from Sydney.
Anglican bishop of
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PSA says 'Put it to a vote!'
ADELAIDE — The Public Service Association has called on the South Australian government to put its wage offer for public servants to a vote of employees, after negotiations failed to reach a conclusion.
The PSA
On April 28, the ballot opened for the post of Queensland branch secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union. The candidates contesting the position are Brett Cardinal, a former Queensland AMWU organiser, running for Workers Unity, a militant rank-and-file group in the union, and acting state secretary Andrew Dettmer, who is supported by AMWU national secretary Doug Cameron.
Dettmer became acting state secretary in 2003 when the elected state secretary, Dave Harrison, resigned to contest preselection for a safe Labor Party seat.
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