Natalie Lowrey
Over the weekend of April 14-17, 120 people participated in the Rain Corroboree in support of the Wiradjuri traditional owners' fight to protect Lake Cowal in central-western NSW from contamination by cyanide, which is used by mining
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Kerryn Williams
The Indonesian government withdrew its draft labour law revisions on April 8, pressured by a wave of workers' protests. The revised law would have made it easier for employers to sack workers by dramatically reducing severance pay;
PERTH — Don't worry, be happy, global warming will be tackled by big business, says a PricewaterhouseCoopers' publication released on April 10. The Corporate Responsibility: Strategy, management and value handbook expects corporate sustainable
SYDNEY — The Shitty Rail Tranny Cop Dance Troupe in a satirical protest against over-policing was part of a Reclaim the Streets action on April 9. The protest targeted the NSW government's embarrassing cross-city tunnel fiasco.From Green Left
NEWCASTLE — "Bring the troops home now!" was the slogan of an anti-war rally held on April 7. Among the speakers were members of the Socialist Alliance, the Greens, the ALP, Newcastle University Students' Association and Christians for Peace. The
Peter Boyle
"Hey, big spenders: the bubble that refuses to burst" was the title of a cheery little piece in the April 20 Sydney Morning Herald.
"Petrol may be pinching the hip-pocket nerve but one part of the retail economy is feeling no pain —
SYDNEY — At the April 20 Unions NSW meeting, assistant secretary Mark Lennon reported that affiliates had agreed to organise local mass delegates' meetings in the week beginning May 15. The meetings will discuss what course of action will take
Tony Iltis, Melbourne
Despite threats by local and state governments, court injunctions and a racist propaganda campaign by the Herald-Sun and the Returned Servicemen's League (RSL), Indigenous activists remain at "Camp Sovereignty" on the Kings
Dave Holmes
Every society deals with crime and punishment in its own special way. Modern capitalism, for all the ludicrous claims of its media hacks and propagandists, is a class-divided society based on the exploitation and oppression of the many
Graham Matthews
More and more incidents of bosses using the federal government's new Work Choices laws to sack "troublemakers", slash the pay of casuals or "restructure" their workplaces are surfacing in the media and, in the lead-up to May Day
Simon Cunich and Katie Cherrington
After being detained by the Wolf Brigade — an elite police squad controlled by the US-backed Iraqi Interior Ministry — in February 2005, Khalida Zakiya, a 46-year-old woman from Mosul, appeared on Iraqi
Luisa Ara
The April 9 presidential election in Peru attracted the attention of many in Latin America and the rest of the world, given the possibility that Peru may join the wave of South American countries turning against neoliberal policies and
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