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"The problem facing both leaders is that the more they try to distance themselves from each other, the more they are sounding the same." — Paul Coorey, the Adelaide Advertiser's chief political reporter comparing Prime Menzies John Howard
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BY ROBERT DARCY
New Zealand's Waterfront Workers Union (WWU) is locked in a major dispute with forestry giant Carter Holt Harvey (CHH) over the contracting of cheap labour to load log ships in South Island ports. Over the last three months pickets
BY JIM McILROY
BRISBANE — The Democratic Socialist Party (DSP) candidates in the February 17 Queensland elections have slammed the decision by 17 National Party candidates to give preferences to the racist One Nation party in the upcoming state
RU486
Over the last decade the ability of women to access abortion services in Australia has become increasingly difficult due to government funding cutbacks and protests by the religious right outside abortion clinics.
In this context the
BY ANDY GIANNIOTIS
SYDNEY — With the demise of the Refugee Action Collective, members
of the International Federation of Iraqi and Iranian Refugees (IFIR), the
Democratic Socialist Party (DSP) and independent anti-racist activists
have
BY SARAH PEART
MELBOURNE — "The task facing us is to build a worthy sequel to S11 on May 1 that will strengthen and advance the movement, organisationally and ideologically", M1 Alliance spokesperson and Democratic Socialist Party activist Jackie
BY JOHN PILGER
On the eve of an election campaign, the government of British Prime Minister Tony Blair is attempting, with mounting desperation, to suppress a scandal potentially greater than the arms-to-Iraq cover-up. This is the deaths of
BY ALISON DELLIT
Following her participation in the September 26 protests in Prague against the meetings of International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, Felicity Martin decided upon her return to Australia she would join the Democratic Socialist
BY CHRISTOPHER PERKINS
WOLLONGONG — Teachers and library staff at TAFE's Illawarra Institute of Technology are taking action against attacks which have flowed from repeated budget cuts by the NSW Labor government.
TAFE library staff, members of
BY JON LAND
Imagine someone referring to prime minister John Howard and his foreign minister, Alexander Downer, as "more generous than Mother Theresa". You wouldn't be surprised if it came from a Coalition backbencher — but these are the precise
Who knows internet business?
The purpose of business is profits. A few years ago that would
have been a controversial statement, drawing replies of “companies invest
for the national good” or something similar. Today every government and
BY MAX LANE
In an escalation of tensions between President Abdurrahman Wahid and right-wing forces in the country's parliament, a full session of the DPR, the Indonesian house of representatives, voted almost unanimously on February 2 to accept a
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