BY RODNEY CHRISTOPHER
Nobody can deny that the Medicare system is in need of resuscitation. However, nobody can deny that our most vulnerable citizens, the elderly, are the pawns in the latest debate between doctors and the federal government over
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Refugee policy condemned
PERTH — Australia's policy of detaining asylum seekers in detention centres was a blatant breach of at least three international treaties, Dr Judith Watson, a former minister for multicultural affairs, told a May 21
BY CHRIS SLEE
MELBOURNE — Two hundred power workers and supporters gathered outside Nauru House on May 16, the first day of an Industrial Relations Commission hearing on Yallourn Energy's application for an arbitrated award that would take away
BY MELANIE SJOBERG
At an ACTU conference in April unions representing workers employed by BHP decided to put aside demarcation differences to "walk arm-in-arm" against the hard-line industrial moves of BHP.
On May 10 the Construction, Forestry,
BY JON LAND
The World Bank has been prominent in East Timor's transition to full independence - so prominent in fact that the country now faces a looming struggle about whether the institution's neo-liberal economic model, so renowned for the
BY FRED FUENTES
MELBOURNE — Just two and a half years after the launch of Melbourne's first private university, Melbourne University Private (MUP), confidential university documents have revealed it is in financial crisis and could lose its legal
BY SEAN HEALY
Let's face it, there can be few things worse than being compared to the epitome of bland, consumer capitalism. So when someone within the movement, especially someone as prominent as Naomi Klein, compares it to everyone's favourite
Emma's NoseBy Paul J. LivingstonDirected by Neil ArmfieldBelvoir St Theatre, SydneyPlaying until June 24
REVIEW BY BRENDAN DOYLE
One response to the doldrums into which Sydney theatre had lapsed was to say: okay, if the more or less well-known
BY ANGELA LUVERA
SYDNEY — Angry at the imprisonment of asylum seekers in its detention camps, more than 150 protesters descended on the offices of Australasian Correctional Management offices early on the morning of May 17.
The protest to "shut
BY ANNA CHEN
At 11am on May 18, as the clouds parted and the sun emerged (briefly), the Socialist Alliance launched its general election manifesto and unveiled its campaign slogan — People Before Profit — in front of Millbank Tower, Labour
BY RACHEL MASSEY
US President George W Bush has canceled a health regulation that would have reduced allowable levels of arsenic in US drinking water from 50 parts per billion (ppb) to 10 ppb.
According to the US Environmental Protection Agency
Ignoring the devastating toll 30 years of reckless oil development has taken on Ecuador — particularly on the Amazon and its people — a consortium of multinational oil companies are poised to make the same irreversible mistake by moving ahead
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