BY NOREEN NAVIN
SYDNEY — Pressure is mounting on Bob Carr's state Labor government to back down on its controversial "Building the Future" plan, which will force the closure of several inner-city high schools.
A rally outside the Department of
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BY JAMES CRAFTI & JODY BETZEIN
MELBOURNE — Around 250 people participated in the "regular" Friday evening Nike superstore blockade on Swanston Street on May 11. The Nike superstore was successfully shut-down by protesters for the eighth week in a
BY LISA MACDONALD
SYDNEY — It rained hard on May 6, the day scheduled for the traditional May Day rally and march. But, determined not to let the weather deter them, hundreds of activists nevertheless turned up to the assembly point in Hyde Park
The federal government has already made formal liberalisation proposals
in the following sectors:
architecture services;
engineering services;
financial services;
construction services;
Municipal elections in France, which took place on March 11 and 18 and are an important litmus test for the mood of the country, have brought a few surprises.
The conservative right has lost the two most important local government positions, the
In the weeks leading up to the M1 protests against corporate tyranny,
the big-business media waged psychological warfare against those who might
be thinking of attending, arguing that the protests were useless, violent,
undemocratic and
BY VIV MILEY
Twenty thousand people marched through Istanbul on May Day in support of left-wing hunger strikers in Turkey's jails. Twenty two prisoners have starved themselves to death since October, in a protest against authorities' decision to
It is not fashionable today to write something good about an ex-convict.
Nevertheless, that is what I am setting out to do in this essay.
I received a letter recently from a correspondent who lives in Wales.
In it, she relates having met a
BY PHIL HEARSE
LONDON — Ten thousand police were mobilised here on May 1, against the "threat" posed by 5000 anti-capitalist demonstrators. This grotesque overkill was accompanied by a weeks-long barrage of press hysteria, warning of "anarchy"
BY MELANIE SJOBERG
If you are one of the estimated 1.8 million low-paid workers in Australia reliant on an award for your wage, your pay packet will soon receive a $13 (before tax) boost, courtesy of the national wage case decision handed down by
BY JOHN PASSANT
"We have a great objective — the light on the hill — which we aim to reach by working for the benefit of mankind." So spoke Labor Prime Minister Ben Chifley half a century ago. Now Kim Beazley, celebrating the 100th anniversary
BY BILL MASON
BRISBANE — A report into the mysterious concentration of illnesses at the Capalaba Post Office, south-east of the city, has been described by former workers as "superficial" and "a farce".
Up to 40 current and former Australia
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