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BY JENNY LONG SYDNEY — The details are emerging of the NSW Labor Council's deal with the state Labor government to resolve the debacle over industrial relations minister John Della Bosca's proposed changes to workers' compensation. Although the
Rally saves planetarium BRISBANE — The Brisbane City Council has backed off from a threat to cut funding to the Brisbane Planetarium, after some 60 people rallied at the planetarium's Mount Coot-tha site on May 20 to demand it be kept open.
BY WILL WILLIAMS WOLLONGONG — Unions claimed victory over BHP in last week's dispute over individual contracts and workplace safety. After a three-day strike, BHP was forced to delay its contracting out of protective services workers at its Port
BY TERESA FOARD As a result of the May 13 elections, Silvio Berlusconi's right-wing La Casa delle Liberta ("House of Freedom") coalition will hold 177 seats in the 315-member upper house and 368 seats in the 630-member lower house of Italy's
BY DICK NICHOLS Since it called off its truce in late 1999, the Basque armed independence organisation ETA (Basque Homeland and Freedom) has carried out a spate of bombings and assassinations across Spain. These have aroused such disgust among
BY JIM GREEN Environment groups have slammed the May 22 federal budget for failing to provide much-needed funding for environmental repair, for creative accounting and disguising corporate welfare as environmental reform. The Coalition government
BY JAMES VASSILOPOULOS M1, the first May Day of the new century, will be remembered by many of us for a long time. Twenty thousand students, workers, pensioners and mothers chanted, yelled, spoke, sang, danced and linked arms across Australia in a
BY SARAH STEPHEN In a dawn raid on May 26, state and federal police, immigration officials and Australasian Correctional Management staff descended on the Port Hedland immigration detention centre to seize and remove detainees involved in a May 11
BY SEAN HEALY Fearful of being embarrassed by large anti-corporate protests at the October Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Brisbane, Queensland Labor Premier Peter Beattie is preparing a concerted effort to either intimidate or co-opt
BY ANDREW HALL CANBERRA — The Socialist Alliance was the best thing to happen on the left in Australia since the formation of the Communist Party following the 1917 Russian Revolution — a bold claim from the National Tertiary Education
BY PATRICIA CORCORAN & ARUN PRADHAN The immediate measure to demand of "our" government is the unconditional right of entry and residence for all those who come here — an open door. Upon arrival, immigrants should be given equal access to
BY NICK EVERETT SYDNEY — Angry at federal budget plans to further erode access to social security and toughen "mutual obligation", local residents, indigenous community representatives, welfare recipients and Centrelink staff met in inner-city