Jacob Mundy
On June 11, the United Nations announced that former US secretary of state James Baker had resigned his position as the UN secretary-general's personal envoy to the Western Sahara. Baker failed to bring the Moroccan government around to
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The federal election date may not yet be determined, but the vote-buying scams are already in full swing.
We've already been treated to tens of millions of dollars worth of publicly funded political advertising for the Coalition government.
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Alex Miller
At its national conference last month, the Fire Brigades Union voted by 31,105 to 14,611 to break its 86-year-old tie with the Labour Party.
The massive majority in favour of disaffiliation with Labour was achieved despite strong
The July 1 Australian published its top ten websites "Most used political directories" list, and once again, Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly is on top:
1. Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly11.21%
2. Australian Labor Party9.88%
3. On Line Opinion7.44%
4. Sydney
Graham Matthews, Melbourne
Staff cuts and lengthening queues were the subject of a street protest organised by the Wills branch of the Socialist Alliance at the Moreland Centrelink office on July 9.
Forty people participated in the protest,
Kathy Newnam
Agreements signed by defence minister Robert Hill at the annual Australia-US ministerial consultations in Washington on July 7 greatly strengthened Australian government support for the US war machine.
The agreements include plans to
The Melbourne North-East Activist Centre (formerly the Resistance Centre) on High Street, Northcote, is now closed, due to financial constraints.
The Socialist Alliance will continue to meet at the Northcote Town Hall, 189 High Street, Northcote.
Does the fear of refugees flooding Australia keep you awake at night? Do you agree that ASIO needs more powers to track down, detain and interrogate "illegal" and "suspicious" people, especially Muslims?
If your answer is "Yes", then PM John Howard
Tariq Ali
Before the war, they said Iraq had "weapons of mass destruction" that threatened the West. Those of us who opposed the war said this was a lie. US President George Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Australian PM John Howard
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PERTH - Up to 300 building workers converged on the Holiday Inn Burswood construction site on June 28, following the sacking of six construction workers.
The sacked workers, all members of the
BY VANNESSA HEARMAN
With the plethora of reality TV, and thinly disguised corporate marketing, documentaries are bringing people back to cinemas. As the Melbourne Age's Larissa Dubecki wrote on May 11: "Reality TV's malaise might now be judged a
Chris Slee, Melbourne
Two Iraqis living in Australia, both of whom have recently returned from visits to their homeland, addressed 50 people at a forum organised by the International Socialist Organisation, an affiliate of the Socialist Alliance,
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