By Arun Pradhan
Several weeks ago, surfers visiting Australian political parties' web sites might have been surprised to see the Liberals' site defaced and full of links to pornography sites. As well as severely embarrassing the Labor Party
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Union rally condemns Coalition
By Ben Courtice
MELBOURNE — About 12,000 people rallied here on September 30 in protest against the federal Coalition government's industrial relations laws. The protest was called by the Victorian Trades Hall
By Adam Hanieh
RAMALLAH — On September 10, the Israeli government announced it had killed two Palestinians in a shoot-out near the West Bank town of Hebron. The next day it revealed that the two dead men were Adel and Imad Awadallah, two Hamas
By Ben Reid and Chris Spindler
MELBOURNE — The September 25 explosion at the Longford gas processing plant near Sale left two workers dead and millions of Victorians without gas. Hundreds of thousands of workers have been stood down. While the
By Peter Robson
BRISBANE — Speaking to a full lecture theatre at the University of Queensland, Amien Rais, chairperson of the Partai Amanat Nasional (National Mandate Party of Indonesia), declared himself a candidate for president in
Chris Rock
By Brandon Astor Jones
[T]he liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language — Jane Austen 1775-1817 (From Northanger Abbey, 1818, chapter 5.)
I find myself in agreement with the late
Arguments for socialism: Unemployment
A grotesque number of workers — 1 billion — are unemployed or underemployed worldwide, according to a new report from the International Labour Organisation (ILO). This one statistic reveals absolutely that
By Kim Bullimore
CANBERRA — ACT Jabiluka Action Group and members of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy held a colourful and vocal picket outside the National Press Club luncheon on September 30. Kim Beazley was addressing the luncheon. About 20
Sri Lankan minister rejects Tamil homeland
By Nadeem Ansari
CANBERRA — The Sri Lankan minister for housing and construction, Inika Gunawardena, told a Friends of Peace in Sri Lanka meeting here on September 29 that a united Sri Lanka was the
Toxic dump close to defeat
The long community campaign to stop the toxic waste dump at the abandoned Werribee quarry seems likely to succeed. A stand-off between CSR, the company that wants to establish the dump, and the local community has
By Malik Miah
Throughout US history "race" has been a major factor in the country's politics. The English occupation and the westward drive by settlers to conquer and slaughter the native peoples was justified in the name of advancing
The same old routine
Now that the election is over, maybe we can all get back to normal. — What do you mean "normal"?
Run of the mill existence, same old routine ... that sort of thing.
— But we've just had an election.
So?
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