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COMMENT BY DAVID LAFFERTY
Currently, all tertiary students pay an affiliation fee, separate from the Higher Education Contribution Scheme (HECS), to their student union.
This fee varies slightly between universities. A full-time student can
On March 20, the day the US, Britain and Australia launched their war on Iraq, the federal government reintroduced a bill into the House of Representatives to give the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) draconian police powers.
BY JORGE JORQUERA
Within 100 days of taking office on January 1 this year, Brazilian President Luis Inacio "Lula" da Silva's Workers Party (PT) government had demonstrated its commitment to neoliberal economic policies beyond anything Washington
BY AMANDA ZIVCIC
"This building went up two years ago. It was corruption that brought it down", Algerian student Abelzak told Reuters, as he surveyed the damage of the vastly under-reported May 21 earthquake that left 2200 Algerians dead and more
BY SARAH STEPHEN
Getting a visa to stay in Australia depends on who you know and who you pay money to, rather than the veracity of your claim. That's the conclusion to be drawn from the "cash for visas" scandal currently engulfing immigration
BY EVA CHENG
At US$45.6 billion, Japan's military budget was dwarfed only by the military budget of the United States which totalled $396.1 billion for fiscal 2003. Throughout the 1990s, Japan's war budget was the second largest in the world
BY MICHELLE BREAR
Young progressive activists will be converging on Sydney from July 11 to 13, to discuss, debate and listen to international campaigners at the Resistance national conference.
"Thousands of young people took part in their first
BY DANNY FAIRFAX
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies a theft from those who hunger and are not fed; those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the
BY SARAH STEPHEN
Last July, two children asked the Family Court to make the immigration minister release them from detention, because it was harmful to their welfare. The judge, however, found in October that the court did not have jurisdiction
Cuba
Peter Frost (Write On, GLW #542), criticises GLW for publishing my article on the "independent libraries" project in Cuba (GLW #541), I would like to make a number of points.
Firstly, he incorrectly asserts that some of the 75 opponents of
BY JENNY LONG
SYDNEY NSW unions covering public servants and teachers in TAFE and the Department of Education and Training (DET) have rejected proposed job cuts announced by NSW Labor education minister Andrew Refshauge on June 17.
At least
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