Since March 1, 5000 Scottish nursery nurses (childcare workers) have been on strike for better pay. It is 15 years since the low-paid workers had a pay review. Currently paid £13,000 a year, the workers are demanding £18,000.
While more
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Vannessa Hearman
MELBOURNE — On April 14, 50 members of the Timor Sea Justice Campaign met outside the High Court to launch the group. Comedian Rod Quantock was joined by protesters disguised as Prime Minister John Howard and foreign minister
Last month, the Australian government released new offshore areas for companies to bid for petroleum exploration permits. This includes territory that is much closer to East Timor's coast than to Australia, which East Timor's government claims as
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Channel 31 forced off air
SYDNEY — In the Federal Court on April 16, Justice Ronald Sackville upheld the Australian Broadcasting Authority's decision to award TV Sydney with the broadcasting licence previously held by Community TV Sydney
Doug Lorimer
BBC television journalist Tara Sutton reported on February 4 that one of the first signs people see as they enter the Iraqi city of Fallujah in March reads: "Welcome to Fallujah — burial ground of the Americans."
The mass rebellion
Alex Bainbridge, Hobart
Doctors began strike action on April 15 and a community rally was held that same day as part of a campaign to restore services at the Mersey Hospital in northern Tasmania.
The private operator of the hospital, Healthscope,
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"This is [US President George] Bush's 33rd visit to his ranch since becoming president. He has spent all or part of 233 days on his Texas ranch since taking office, according to a tally by CBS News. Adding his 78 visits to Camp David
The Socialist Alliance joined the hundreds of thousands of Australians who rallied against the war on Iraq last year. Now we are building demonstrations against the US occupation as events in Iraq of the past two weeks have shown the world the brutal
Robyn Marshall, Caracas
Jorge Rodriguez, one of the five members of Venezuela's National Elections Council (CNE), announced on April 14 that the re-verification of signatures on the right-wing opposition's petition for a referendum to recall
Alex Miller
The Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) will initiate a campaign to abolish the local council tax wuith a mass demonstration in Glasgow on April 24, and with the presentation of bill in the Scottish Parliament by SSP MSP Tommy Sheridan.
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Max Lane
Despite what some media may tell us, the 2004 Indonesian election results indicate that there is no nostalgic swing to the past, but instead a popular rejection of the elit politik.
Not a single major political party has increased its
Federal treasurer Peter Costello's superannuation plan is just what you would expect from a government that does nothing for workers, unless it first means a profit for the bosses.
Costello wants a flood of cut-price pensioners who "choose" to
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