Campaigns to win with
For the last two and a half decades of neo-liberal attacks, the Australian trade union movement has been under siege from the bosses and their politicians. On the principle that the best form of defence is to go on the
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By Anthony Benbow
Since September, a battle has been unfolding in Western Australia's north-west Pilbara region, the outcome of which will affect the conditions and wages of workers throughout Australia. The fight to prevent individual contracts at
Candidate to campaign for prostitution law reform
By Philippa Stanford
ADELAIDE — Speculation that brothel owner Stormy Summers will run for the position of lord mayor of Adelaide in the May council election has sparked enormous controversy.
The following is abridged from a statement, in solidarity with the striking electricity workers of Uttar Pradesh, India, issued by the Labour Party Pakistan (LPP) on January 25. The Labour Party Pakistan expresses its deepest solidarity with the
ALP challenged in Woodridge by-election
By Jim McIlroy
BRISBANE — Peter Beattie's Labor government is in danger of losing the outer suburban seat of Woodridge, traditionally one of Labor's safest, to an ex-ALP independent local councillor,
By Sean Healy
Federal Labor leader Kim Beazley has announced that his party will establish a new coastguard to "protect Australia's borders" when it is elected to government. Beazley said the initiative, announced on January 23, was motivated by
Police raids on One Nation condemned
By Margaret Allum
On January 21, offices of the One Nation party in Ipswich, Queensland, and Sydney were raided by the Queensland police major fraud squad and the New South Wales commercial crime squad.
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Christianity and liberation
Barry Healy (GLW #389) is unjustified in criticising Nick Carr and Kate Carr for their article "Why God hates homosexuals and women (and we hate Christmas)" (GLW #388).
He charges Nick and
By Diana Haywood-Rankine and Stuart Munckton
ADELAIDE — South Australia's only daily newspaper, the Rupert Murdoch-owned Advertiser, ran a page-one story on January 15 headed, "Weapons of street war. Vietnamese gangs 'vicious and violent'". The
By Erica Haines
ADELAIDE — Vehicle manufacturer Mitsubishi has confirmed it will stay in South Australia for at least another 10 years but will impose a major restructuring program which will cost up to 1000 jobs — more than a quarter of its
By Nabaz
I am 16 years old and arrived in Australia from Iraq last February. In Iraq, I had to leave school when I was 11 and get a job to help my family survive. I had to get a labourer's job. The pay and conditions were extremely bad. There were
Review by Eva Cheng
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