[MELBOURNE — On May 11, the Socialist Alliance sponsored a trade union seminar, discussing, among other things, unions and political representation. This question of relating to political parties, and specifically the ALP, has been an increasing
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A few months ago a group of friends at Fort Street High School were painting a banner and talking, they decided to convince their fellow students of the injustice of government policy towards refugees and to mobilise them to change it. Year 12
[On May 31, Greens Senator Bob Brown told ABC radio that he would consider
helping the government to sell the remaining third of Telstra if the government
was prepared to end old growth logging. Later that day, a press statement
from Brown's
BY ELIZABETH SCHULTE
Maybe there is a god. Five years ago, the Fox network introduced Ally McBeal — a show focused on the wacky antics of the self-absorbed Harvard law graduate and her coworkers at a high-powered Boston law firm.
TV audiences
Sorry Day
BRISBANE Around 2000 people walked across the Goodwill Bridge to a festival
in Musgrave Park to mark National Sorry Day 2002 on May 26, condemning
past governments forcible removal of Indigenous children from their
BY NORM DIXON
The United States is tacitly backing many of Afghanistan's brutal
and reactionary warlords as they divide up the country among themselves.
Many of the same warlords committed unspeakable atrocities during the devastating
and ain't i a woman?: Maternity leave divides conservatives
Feminists have long called on the government to provide women with maternity leave on full pay, but what was interesting about the debate leading up to this year's federal budget was
BY JESS MELVIN
MELBOURNE — On the morning of May 30, I and fellow high school Resistance activist James Crafti stood before a judge at Melbourne Children's Court. The case followed our arrest for trespass while protesting for refugee rights
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BY SUE BULL
MELBOURNE Craig Johnston, the secretary of the Victorian branch of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU), may be under attack, but along with the rest of the militant union branch's Workers First leadership, he is
BY SUE BULL
MELBOURNE Tony Abbott, federal workplace relations minister, used
parliamentary privilege on May 29 to savagely attack the Australian Manufacturing
Workers Union and, in particular, Craig Johnston, the secretary of the
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