On May 5, the Law Lords overturned the decision of an immigration official to grant asylum to a woman suffering from full-blown AIDS, deciding that it was permissible to deport her to Uganda where she will be denied the drugs needed to keep her
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Susan Price
Workers at TAFE colleges across the country were issued with an ultimatum by the federal government on May 11: Unless state and territory employers offer TAFE teachers Australian Workplace Agreements (AWAs), Commonwealth funding will be
American Dream
"Working and low-income families from New York to California face an affordable-housing shortage that threatens to spoil the 'American Dream' of a decent home if you get a decent job. A recent Center for Housing Policy study found
CAIRNS — "Aboriginal people were paid a pittance for their work over 100 years, and even that pittance was stolen", Terry O'Shane, chair of a rally held in the city mall on May 15, told the audience.
Aunty Ruth Hegarty from the Stolen Wages
Andre Gunder Frank
On February 23, Andre Gunder Frank, renowned left-wing academic, writer and activist, passed away after a lengthy battle with cancer. Once suggested as a possible Cuban economy minister by Che Guevara, Frank packed his 76 years'
Ian Jamieson, Perth
Since the Coalition government was re-elected in 2004, workers around Australia have been waiting for the union movement to begin to organise against the federal government's anti-union agenda. Almost immediately after the
ARMIDALE — On May 17, 50 people braved cold and rainy weather to protest against foreign minister Alexander Downer when he visited the University of New England to deliver the annual Earl Page College politics lecture.
The protesters voiced
How long does it take employees at McDonald's restaurants in our region to earn enough money to purchase a Big Mac?
Australia — 17 minutes
New Zealand — 28 minutes
Hong Kong — 41 minutes
Malaysia — 1 hour, 26 minutes
South Korea —
Hula Girls — Explores the sexual mythology that has for centuries defined notions of Pacific Island women. SBS, Friday, May 27, 10pm.
Russell Page: A Dance Tribute — Russell Page was the principal dancer for Bangarra Dance Theatre, the
James Balowski, Jakarta
At midnight on May 18, the Indonesian government declared an end to its two-year civil emergency in Indonesia's northern-most province of Aceh. But calls by the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) and human rights groups for the troops
Annolies Truman, Perth
Twenty-four per cent of Aboriginal children in Western Australia are at high risk of clinically significant emotional or behavioural difficulties, a ground-breaking report has found. Adele Cox and Sven Silburn from the
On May 4, Army judge Colonol James Pohl terminated the court-martial of Private Lynndie England, accused of torturing prisoners at the US-run Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, saying her guilty plea was "not believable". Pohl explained that if, as England's
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