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By Roberto Jorquera BRISBANE — Orientation week was held at the University of Queensland from February 16 to 19. During that week, Resistance held vibrant stalls that attracted hundreds of people interested in socialist politics. More than 150
By Paul Oboohov and Tom Flanagan The leadership of the Community and Public Sector Union and its new section council covering the Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs (DEETYA) have abandoned any pretence of a campaign to
Reversing capitalism As much as I applaud Alex Bainbridge's sentiment that "all that is needed is for humanity as a whole, rather than the wealthy profiteers, to control production", I am anxious to know how he intends to wrest that control? While
Brunswick Music Festival By Bronwen Beechey MELBOURNE — The eighth Brunswick Music Festival kicks off on February 28 with Festivals Australia Indigenous Sounds, a weekend dedicated to the indigenous music and culture of Australia. The event
Protests against nuclear waste shipment By Pip Hinman The WA Greens have issued a protest against the secrecy and misinformation surrounding a highly dangerous shipment of nuclear waste travelling from France to Japan. "Any mishap would require
Social Security penalises strikers By Philippa Stanford One of the federal government's budget changes restricts access to income support payments for people unemployed as a result of participation in industrial action. This provision, which came
5000 at risk from AIDS in PNG AIDS may kill more than 5000 people in Papua New Guinea by the year 2000, according to a report released in Port Moresby on February 14. The report, by the United Nations Fund for Children and the PNG government,
Iranian oil workers arrested On February 16, hundreds of oil workers and their elected representatives from petroleum refineries in Shiraz, Isfahan, Tabriz and Tehran, together with workers of the oil pipelines and the national gas company, were