Adam Leeman, Sydney
May Day rallies took place around Australia on the May 1-2 weekend. In Sydney, 1000 people marched, including contingents from the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union, the Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous
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Sarah Stephen
The seven judges of the High Court's full bench ruled unanimously on April 29 that the Family Court did not have the authority to release children from immigration detention or make orders about their welfare.
Constitutional lawyer
An April Morgan Poll shows that on a two-party preferred basis, voter support for the federal ALP is at 54.5%, while support for the federal Coalition parties is trailing behind at 45.5%.
On these figures, it seems likely that Prime Minister John
Norm Dixon
Even while working people were still coming to terms with the shock of witnessing the unimaginable and traumatic collapse of the World Trade Center, top US officials were describing this mass-murder of 3000 people as "an opportunity",
Jason Tockman, Caracas
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Frias has announced that the cultivation of genetically modified crops will be prohibited on Venezuelan soil, possibly establishing the most sweeping restrictions on transgenic crops in the
In late January, Internationalen's Farooq Sulehria caught up with renowned writer and activist Tariq Ali. The following is an abridged vrsion of the interview.
Do you really think that Islamic fundamentalism is a threat created by US imperialism
Unequal Treatment: what you don't know about how women are mistreated by the medical communityBy Eileen Nechas and Denise FoleySimon and Schuster, 1994232 pages, US$19.80
REVIEW BY RACHEL EVANS
Unequal Treatment exposes a medical system that
HOBART — With 78% of the vote counted by the end of polling night on May 1, Socialist Alliance candidate Kamala Emanuel had received 860 votes or 5.27% in the Tasmanian upper house seat of Elwick.
Greens candidate Helen Burnett gained 14.79% of
A growing anti-privatisation movement, allegations of government corruption and revelations of the repression of Muslims are all causing headaches for the government of Thaksin Shinawatra, and creating new opportunities for a re-emerging Thai left.
Sue Bolton, Melbourne
Craig Johnston, the former Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) Victorian branch secretary, goes on trial on May 10 on charges arising from an industrial dispute in 2001. The dispute was over the sacking of 29 workers
Shua Garfield, Hobart
Sixty people heard Cecilio Freitas, chair of East Timor People's Action, and Greens senators Bob Brown and Kerry Nettle speak at an April 26 forum on "oil and self-determination: Iraq and East Timor". The meeting was organised
Since the beginning of the year, student activists have been struggling to stop university administrations from increasing student fees. Stuart Munckton, national co-ordinator of Resistance and a member of the Socialist Alliance, takes up the debate
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