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Kamala Emanuel & Anthea Stutter, Hobart Tasmanian Aborigines and their supporters are campaigning in favour of the Aboriginal Lands Act 2004, due before state parliament in November. The bill, introduced by the government, will hand back three Bass
Sue Bull, Geelong The Shell oil refinery in Geelong has once again been caught out polluting Corio Bay. On November 4, Shell failed to inform the Environmental Protection Agency that a spill had reached the bay and the company was initially very
#2 La Trobe University evicts NTEU MELBOURNE — La Trobe University has served an eviction notice on the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU), demanding that it vacate its office on campus by December 31. Campus unionists believe this is
Vannessa Hearman, Melbourne I was actively involved in the campaign for East Timor's independence throughout 1999 as a member of Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor. We were fortunate that at the time, Craig Johnston held the
In this article, which first appeared in the November 9 Sydney Morning Herald, former diplomat Tony Kevin called on Australians to oppose what is happening in Fallujah. We need to be clear on what is happening in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, about
Rohan Pearce Many have spent their time since the November 2 US presidential election bemoaning the "stupidity" of US people for "re"-electing President George Bush, instead of voting for John Kerry, the alternative pro-war candidate favoured by
Jim McIlroy, Brisbane Sam Watson, prominent Aboriginal activist and Socialist Alliance member, slammed as "racist clowns" the members of the Australian army who were revealed in the November 11 Courier Mail, standing behind Aboriginal soldiers in a
On October 19, 2001, the "SIEV X" boat sank between Indonesian and Australian waters, taking the lives of 353 people. Amal Basry survived the tragedy and the following is her story, which she told to Mary Dagmar Davies. Amal means hope in Arabic.
Max Lane, Sydney Action in Solidarity with Asia and the Pacific (ASAP) is deeply concerned at the news that 38-year-old Indonesian human rights campaigner Munir, who died in September aboard a flight to Amsterdam, was murdered, according to an
Sarah Stephen, Sydney The immigration department must have changed its mind at the last moment, because Sereana Naikelekele wasn't on the flight from Sydney that arrived in Fiji at 6.10pm on November 6, where Fijian police and airport officials
Share of federal funding to public schools went from 73.7% in 1964-65, to 33.3% in 2005-06. During the same period, the share of federal funding to private schools went from 26.3% to 66.7%. Direct federal funding to private schools was $2.7 million
Eva Cheng The illegal Korean Government Employees Union (KGEU) plans to press ahead with a general strike on November 15 despite having the strike ballot among its 140,000 members seriously disrupted by police. The KGEU had planned a general