BY LISA MACDONALD
SYDNEY — A new Palestine Human Rights Campaign was launched at a meeting of Palestine solidarity activists on November 18. The group will provide a coordinating centre for activities here in solidarity with the Palestinian
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BY NICOLE HILDER
WOLLONGONG — Left-wing students at Wollongong university fended off a challenge from the right-wing and regained control over the Student Representative Council (SRC) in elections held on October 24-26.
The left won all office
BY BILL MASON
BRISBANE — A pregnant diesel fitter, sent on unpaid maternity leave by her employer Mount Isa Mines, has successfully appealed to the Queensland industrial commission against the giant company. The commission on November 16 ordered
BY JOHN GAUCI
Once upon a time the majority of commonwealth schools funding went to public schools. Successive Labor and Liberal governments have ensured this is no longer the case.
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the proportion
Newcastle student election
I've just discovered your article, "Students outraged by Newcastle Uni election decision", by Melody Coutman & Alison Dellit.
Articles such as this have broken my faith in 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ as a reliable source of information.
BY FIONA GRAHAM& COLIN FOX
GLASGOW — A recent opinion poll on voting intentions reflects the Scottish Socialist Party's (SSP) consistent increase in support among the Scottish electorate. The poll, reported in the Herald on September 4, shows
BY MARGARET GLEESON
SYDNEY — An estimated 80,000 people marched from Redfern Oval to Sydney Town Hall on November 12 to demand the inclusion of the South Sydney "Rabbitohs" football team in the 2001 National Rugby League competition. The massive
BY JUSTIN RANDELL
Members of the Democratic Socialist Party, Resistance and others
inspired by the growing anti-capitalist movement will meet for the 19th
DSP congress, to be held in western Sydney from January 3-7. The theme
of the
BY CHRIS SLEE
MELBOURNE — Five hundred owner-drivers rallied on the steps of Parliament House on November 13. They parked their trucks in the street and blocked traffic for an hour. They were demanding that the Victorian Labor government's Fair
Blind justice
"The George Speight coup was unsuccessful in its attempt to overthrow the democratically elected government of Mahendra Chaudry." — excerpt from Fijian High Court ruling on the legality of the Speight-army coup last May.
Stop
BY IGGY KIM
SEOUL — The annual National Workers' Rally, held on the weekend of November 11-12, showed signs that the decline in militancy that has plagued the South Korean labour movement this year is reversing. The leadership of the Korean
BY JONATHAN STRAUSS
As John Howard's federal Coalition government faces increasing public criticism over its cuts to welfare, employment services minister Tony Abbott has resorted to invoking both the Pope and Karl Marx in defence of the
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