Maureen Francis
The NSW Labor government's planned $2 billion water desalination plant in Sydney's eastern suburbs has produced an interesting group of opponents.
The state Liberal opposition may perhaps be discounted: they see it as their duty
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In the wake of the July 7 bombings in London, people in Britain and around the world are asking: why did this happen, and what can we do to stop it from happening again? Perfectly reasonable questions to which there are a variety of possible answers,
DARWIN — A 20-year-old Aboriginal man was confined to a wheelchair on July 16 after being dragged behind a police wagon until the toenails and skin were torn off his feet.
Police spokespeople told the July 24 Sunday Territorian that the incident
John Martinkus
HT Lee died on July 26. I only knew HT for the last six years of his life, but the circumstances of our meeting in the final days before the 1999 independence ballot in East Timor meant that we formed a strong friendship.
HT
ARMIDALE — Since the July 1 Sky Channel meeting and rally to defend workers' rights, attended by 500-600 workers, unionists have been meeting weekly to organise a family picnic and rally on August 7, and to inform the community about the effects
On July 28, the Islamic Human Rights Commission reported that attacks on Asian-Britons reported to it, and not to the police, had increased 13-fold since July 7 - from an average of 6-7 a week, to 170 in two weeks. The Muslim Safety Forum, which
NEWCASTLE — On the morning of July 29, 200 workers rallied outside the office of federal Coalition MP Bob Baldwin in the town of Raymond in a display of solidarity with the nine-week-long strike by maintenance workers employed by Boeing at the
Green Left Weekly's Bronwyn Jennings spoke to Geelong Trades Hall secretary Tim Gooden about the campaign to defeat the federal Coalition government's proposed changes to industrial relations laws.
Can the new IR laws be defeated?
Yes. They may
Chris Johnson, Queenscliffe
They came in red coats, scarves and hats, wrapped in red blankets and waving red flags. One-hundred-and-fifty residents of the Bellarine Peninsula in Victoria called on the state Labor government to reverse its decision
Paul Oboohov, Canberra
The Unions ACT rally against PM John Howard's new industrial laws, set for August 9, the first sitting day of the new Senate, will no longer be held in front of Parliament House as planned, but several kilometres away in
HOBART — The Hobart Organic Food Co-operative distributed free food to 60 people in a Food not Bombs activity on Parliament House Lawns on July 22.
Food not Bombs is a volunteer organisation dedicated to creating a world free from coercion and
Message Stick: 4-Wheel Dreaming — Documents a journey into the very heart of Australian Aboriginal culture. ABC, Friday, August 5, 6pm.
Hiroshima's Atom Bomb Dome — To coincide with the 60th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, this program
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