While much of Venezuelan's attention is focussed on the December 4 National Assembly elections, another set of important elections are scheduled to take place during November in the municipality of Sucre.
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Chris Peterson, Melbourne
"Howard is trying to silence us, and stop us from organising for our rights", Melbourne Resistance organiser Brianna Pike told Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly. "But here in Melbourne, Resistance is throwing ourselves into the broad
Kerry Vernon, Maitland
Two-hundred women, their relatives and supporters marched along Maitland's main street on the night of October 28 in the first Reclaim the Night event to be held in this city of 54,000 residents.
Led by 83-year-old feminist
Graham Matthews
Unemployed workers will face no choice but to accept any job offer, regardless of its lack of penalty rates, public holidays or breaks, under the Howard government's proposed changes to industrial relations laws.
Failing to take
Ian Rintoul
"Two boys betrayed", the October 7 Australian editorial proclaimed, referring to Alamdar and Montazar Bakhtiyari, the two eldest sons of Australia's most high-profile asylum seeker family. The Australian editorial was railing against
Andrew Hall, Canberra
Members of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) working in Centrelink are set to stop work nationally for several hours on November 15 to attend the ACTU's national SkyChannel broadcast and protest rallies against the
Simon Cunich, Sydney
Students have claimed all year that the Howard government's proposed "voluntary student unionism" (VSU) legislation is really aimed, not at giving freedom of choice as the government claims, but at silencing dissent against its
Alex Bainbridge, Hobart
The Recherche Bay Protection Group held a commemoration on October 28 for the 250th anniversary of the birth of French botanist Jacques-Julian Houtou de Labillardiere. The group used the occasion to call once again on the
BRISBANE — Ambulance officers around Queensland stopped work on October 26 to demand improvements in staffing and working conditions, in the first statewide strike in history. Around 500 paramedics and their families demonstrated outside the Kedron
Doug Lorimer
At an October 16 media conference where Prime Minister John Howard announced the Australian government's intention to double the number of people directly employed by its ASIO secret police agency by 2010, he dismissed concerns that
Andrew Martin, Brisbane
On October 19, workers at James Hardie's Meeandah concrete pipe factory arrived for their usual start time of 6.30 am to find factory's gates locked. The company had initiated a 28-hour lockout in response to workers holding
On October 26, Venezuelan ambassador Fermin Toro Jimenez told the UN Security Council that his country has begun processing an extradition request for Reverend Pat Robertson from the US. Robertson has publicly called for the assassination of
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