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5 September 2008
Australia:
Labor uses Howard's construction industry watchdog to attack
building workers
Australian media union refuses to challenge job cuts
at Fairfax
1 September 2008
Australia:
NSW government unveils "Plan B" to sell electricity
assets
29 August 2008
Australia:
Damning evidence surfaces in Beaconsfield mine inquest
27 August 2008
Australia's
"tax review": Rudd seeks to deliver corporate agenda
22 August 2008
Australian
Labor government presses neo-colonial agenda at Pacific Islands
Forum
20 August 2008
Australia:
Huge swing against Labor in Northern Territory election
19 August 2008
Goodyear
to shut down its last tyre plant in Australia
18 August 2008
Australia:
Labor government scapegoats air traffic controllers
4 August 2008
Australian
bank debt write-downs reveal deepening economic problems
31 July 2008
Australia:
Qantas engineers' union brokers another shabby pay deal
30 July 2008
Australia:
Qantas engineers' union brokers another shabby pay deal
28 July 2008
Australian
Labor government unveils carbon trading scheme that shields corporate
polluters
25 July 2008
Australia:
Pay decision maintains poverty level wages
17 July 2008
Sydney's
World Youth Day: a spectacle of state-sponsored obscurantism
Australian
court finds anti-democratic World Youth Day "annoyance"
law invalid
Australia: Rail unions cave in amid furor over disruption
to Pope's visit
16 July 2008
Australia's
"two-track" economy: super-profits and falling living
standards
12 July 2008
Australia:
Unions give Qantas a "breathing space" to prepare fresh
assault on engineers
5 July 2008
Australia:
Federal and state by-elections reveal growing disaffection with
Labor
30 June 2008
Australia's
"Iguanagate": the politics of scandal
28 June 2008
Australia:
Once again unions call off Qantas stoppages
27 June 2008
Australian
call for "Asia-Pacific Community": A sign of growing
tensions
24 June 2008
Australian
government releases National Employment Standards-a "win
for employers"
23 June 2008
West
Australian gas explosion cuts state's energy supplies and throws
thousands out of work
21 June 2008
19 June 2008
Australia:
Labor strikes deal with Liberals to push through NSW power privatisation
17 June 2008
Australia:
Unions refuse to fight GM's latest plant closure
12 June 2008
Australia:
Growing dissatisfaction with Rudd Labor government
11 June 2008
Australia:
Unions move to negotiate as Qantas rules out improved pay offer
for engineers
6 June 2008
Australia:
Rudd rewrites history as he announces "withdrawal"
from Iraq
4 June 2008
Australian
Prime Minister Rudd glorifies Vietnam War
31 May 2008
Australia:
Unions call off rallies against NSW electricity privatisation
30 May 2008
Australian
photographer Bill Henson--scapegoat for a wider assault on democratic
rights
26 May 2008
Australia:
Labor government backs witch-hunting of photographer Bill Henson
21 May 2008
ISSE meeting at University of New South Wales
Forty years since May-June 1968: The lessons for today
20 May 2008
Australia:
Demand mass meetings to reject Victorian teachers' union sell-out!
17 May 2008
Australia:
Peak union body calls off Qantas stoppages
14 May 2008
Australia:
Rudd Labor's budget delivers for business and the wealthy
10 May 2008
Australia:
Teachers' union moves to shut down industrial campaign
9 May 2008
Qantas
chief threatens "showdown" with workers over pay
8 May 2008
Australia:
NSW Labor MPs unanimously endorse premier's defiance of anti-privatisation
vote
6 May 2008
Australia:
Unions use anti-privatisation rally as leverage for negotiations
with Labor government
5 May 2008
Australia:
NSW Labor Premier prepares to privatise electricity despite party
conference defeat
30 April 2008
Another
Australian soldier killed in Afghanistan
26 April 2008
Australia:
Inflation soars and thousands more face losing their homes
23 April 2008
Australia:
Rudd Labor government suppresses documents on 1998 waterfront
dispute
22 April 2008
Dark
clouds gather over Australian economy
21 April 2008
Australian
Labor government's "2020 summit": more political spin
to package right-wing agenda
19 April 2008
Australia:
Fears of job losses grow amid signs of slowing economy
17 April 2008
Australian
prime minister's world trip: "a bright new image" for
US alliance
12 April 2008
Australia:
Families hit by rising bankruptcies and home repossessions
11 April 2008
Australian
government moves to impose further hardship on low-paid
5 April 2008
New
pamphlet from Mehring Books in Australia
2 April 2008
Australian
Labor leaders plan "third wave" of free-market measures
Australian unions seek to accommodate on NSW power
privatisation
1 April 2008
South
Australian Labor government to slash payments to injured workers
SEP-ISSE public meetings in Melbourne and Sydney
Shades of 1929: the global implications of the US banking collapse
31 March 2008
Australia:
Murdoch-sponsored conference outlines "new agenda"
for Rudd government
25 March 2008
Former
Australian prime minister feted by US Republican right
21 March 2008
Housing
stress at record levels in Australia
Interviews with Australian homebuyers: “We have a house, but we are very poor”
20 March 2008
SEP-ISSE public meeting in Sydney on April 9
Shades of 1929: the implications of the US banking collapse
17 March 2008
Despite
a nervous "backflip", Australian government plans deep
welfare cuts
14 March 2008
Australia:
Rudd government rejects emission targets in official climate
change report
13 March 2008
Australian
PM marks first 100 days as Murdoch demands "stiff dose of
Brutopia"
Australia: Unions rubber-stamp Mitsubishi closure
12 March 2008
Australian
prime minister undertakes tactical shift in Papua New Guinea
and Solomon Islands
7 March 2008
Australia:
NSW Labor embroiled in corruption scandal
5 March 2008
Australia:
Rudd government demands wage "restraint"
4 March 2008
After Rudd's "apology" to indigenous people
Australian government extends welfare "quarantining"
and land grab
27 February 2008
Australia:
Power workers oppose NSW Labor government's privatisation bid
25 February 2008
Australia:
"Lefts" sign-up with Rudd Labor
22 February 2008
An
exchange on Australia's "Sorry Day"
20 February 2008
Sino-Australian
relations complicated by BHP's attempted merger with Rio Tinto
19 February 2008
Australia:
Labor "rank and file" meeting--no perspective to fight
electricity privatisation
18 February 2008
Australia:
Unions collaborate with Qantas to slash wages and conditions
15 February 2008
Australia:
Press blacks out Aboriginal protest over Northern Territory intervention
Australia: Prime Minister Rudd backs NSW state power
sell-off in face of growing opposition
14 February 2008
Australia:
"Stolen generations" speak out in Canberra
13 February 2008
Australian
Prime Minister apologises to "stolen generation": rhetoric
versus reality
30
years since Sydney's Hilton Hotel bombing--the unanswered questions
12 February 2008
Australian
federal parliament's "sorry" resolution: the real agenda
11 February 2008
Tricom
breakdown exposes fragility of Australian share market
8 February 2008
Mitsubishi
axes its last Australian car plant
4 February 2008
Australian
police chief calls for media blackout on terrorism cases
31 January 2008
The
Australian Labor Party and Indonesia's dictator Suharto
28 January 2008
Continuing
turbulence on Australian share markets
24 January 2008
Australia:
Demands grow for closure of Villawood detention centre
21 January 2008
Billions
wiped off Australian share market
15 January 2008
Australia:
Labor's Julia Gillard threatens legal action against strikes
14 January 2008
Australian
Labor government threatens to censor Internet
10 January 2008
The
India-Australia cricket conflict: sport, profits and nationalism
9 January 2008
Australian
shopping centre investment trust, Centro, faces collapse
8 January 2008
Australia:
NSW Labor government unveils electricity sell-off
4 January 2008
Qantas
prepares strike-breaking operation against licensed engineers
31 December 2007
Australian
Labor government steps up vendetta against former Solomon Islands
attorney-general
24 December 2007
Australian
Labor government endorses further punitive measures against David
Hicks
21 December 2007
Australian
media uses Aurukun Aboriginal child rape case to push right-wing
agenda
18 December 2007
Australia:
Socialist Party lashes out at the SEP's election intervention
17 December 2007
Australia:
Labor government proceeds with pro-business industrial relations
agenda
15 December 2007
Australia:
Police attack African youth at public housing estate
14 December 2007
Australia:
Labor's "education revolution" to deliver for business
13 December 2007
Australia:
Labor government to boost military spending
10 December 2007
Australia:
Howard government knew of Guantánamo detainee's torture
complaints
8 December 2007
Australia:
Labor government moves to ratify Kyoto Protocol ahead of Bali
climate change conference
7 December 2007
Australia:
Qantas-union deal will set new benchmark to cut pay and conditions
4 December 2007
Australia:
Rudd Labor government commits to "economic conservativism"
1 December 2007
Labor
expected to send more troops as Australian casualties grow in
Afghanistan
30 November 2007
Australian
Labor prime minister-elect unveils new pro-business cabinet
28 November 2007
Election
defeat causes meltdown in Australia's Liberal and National parties
27 November 2007
Australian
Labor prime minister elect reassures "our great friend and
ally the United States"
20 October 2007
Australia:
McArthur Express workers face up to 10 years jail for protesting
19 October 2007
Australia:
Rudd tries to fudge Labor's agreement with WorkChoices
16 October 2007
Socialist Equality Party (Australia) 2007 federal
election statement
A socialist program to fight war, social inequality and the
assault on democratic rights
Socialist Equality Party in Australia launches new
election web site
15 October 2007
Australian
election: an ominous silence on US war plans against Iran
13 October 2007
Anatomy of a political diversion
The Australian Labor Party, the Bali bombings, and the death
penalty
10 October 2007
Liberal
and Labor parties responsible for death of Australian soldier
in Afghanistan
9 October 2007
Australian
SEP federal election campaign meetings
6 October 2007
Australia:
New reports reveal impact of Howard's IR laws
4 October 2007
Socialist
Equality Party in Australia announces federal election candidates
SEP public meeting in Perth, Western Australia
The socialist alternative in the 2007 federal election
Australia: Transport union abandons McArthur Express
workers
28 September 2007
Australia:
Riot police attack sacked transport workers
"Policing the neighbourhood"--Australia's
new para-military police
Part 2
27 September 2007
"Policing the neighbourhood"--Australia's
new para-military police
Part 1
26 September 2007
Socialist
Equality Party in Australia achieves party registration
21 September 2007
Well-attended
ISSE meeting discusses US war threat on Iran
20 September 2007
Australia:
Bipartisan political praise for police violence at APEC summit
17 September 2007
ISSE:
Nick Beams to address University of New South Wales meeting
13 September 2007
Australia:
In face of deepening opposition, Howard government implodes
11 September 2007
Iraq
forum in Howard's electorate Australian Labor promises "reliable
hands" in time of war
10 September 2007
Massive
police-state mobilisation for Sydney APEC demonstration
Former US Marine Matt Howard speaks with WSWS
"No-one is talking about the real violence"
8 September 2007
Australian
comedy team exposes APEC security hype
7 September 2007
Socialist
strategy needed to oppose war and social inequality
US-Australia defence deal underlines regional rivalry
at APEC summit
6 September 2007
Australia:
Police mobilised against high school students at APEC demonstration
4 September 2007
Australia:
Extraordinary security operation shuts down central Sydney for
APEC summit
Australia's corporate media praises Labor's modified
IR package
29 August 2007
US
Congress receives warning of China's growing influence in South
Pacific
24 August 2007
"Terrorism" case unravels further Australian judge overturns government cancellation
of Dr Haneef's visa
20 August 2007
Pitching for the right-wing Christian vote
Australia: Howard and Labor leader in censorship bidding war
16 August 2007
Australia:
Labor joins Howard government in blocking Haneef inquiry
14 August 2007
Solomon
Islands attorney-general rebuts Australian government child sex
allegations
13 August 2007
Australian High Court radically expands scope of military
power
Judges sanction "control order" on Jack Thomas
8 August 2007
Australian
government rams bills through parliament to take over Aboriginal
communities
6 August 2007
Australian
government recruits high-profile public servant to sell unpopular
IR laws
1 August 2007
Australian
government issues new "terrorist" smears against Haneef
Australia: State Labor premier and deputy head for
greener pastures
28 July 2007
Haneef
"terrorism" charges dropped: a debacle for the Australian
government
25 July 2007
Australian
government launches unprecedented attacks on lawyers as Haneef
case falls apart
23 July 2007
Ford
Australia announces axing of Geelong engine plant
21 July 2007
Australian
Fair Pay Commission hands down pittance for low-paid workers
20 July 2007
Australian
government's "terrorist" case against Dr Haneef unravels
18 July 2007
Aboriginal
people condemn police-military intervention in Northern Territory
17 July 2007
Australian
government unilaterally detains doctor after court agrees to
bail
14 July 2007
Australia:
British terrorist attacks used to detain doctor without trial
13 July 2007
Australia:
Protests against Howard's takeover of Aboriginal communities
7 July 2007
Australian
Labor leaders shift closer to Howard's IR laws
6 July 2007
Australian
defence minister admits oil a key factor behind Iraq occupation
5 July 2007
Australia:
Scepticism mounts towards Howard's Aboriginal intervention
3 July 2007
Western
Australian mine workers protest unsafe conditions
30 June 2007
Australian
government takeover of Aboriginal communities: the real content
of the "Children are Sacred" report
29 June 2007
Australian journalist Glenn
Milne's "twisted logic" on Northern Territory deployment
28 June 2007
Australian
neo-colonialism comes home: The Northern Territory and the Solomon
Islands
27 June 2007
Australia:
Growing opposition to police-military takeover of Aboriginal
communities
26 June 2007
Police
spy agencies target Australian universities
25 June 2007
Storm
wreaks havoc across Australia's Hunter Valley and Central Coast
23 June 2007
Australian
government imposes military-police regime on Aborigines
22 June 2007
Opinion
polls provoke bewilderment in lead-up to Australian election
20 June 2007
Australian
government's water plan to benefit major agribusinesses
19 June 2007
Australia:
report exposes government's foreign "aid" program
15 June 2007
Australia:
Why Rudd forced the resignation of union official Dean Mighell
13 June 2007
Australia:
Labor endorses Howard government's "fairness test"
fraud
12 June 2007
Australia:
Financial collapses devastate small investors
4 June 2007
ISSE
meetings held in Australia and New Zealand
2 June 2007
Australia:
Former PM Whitlam testifies on 1975 murder of "Balibo Five"
journalists
24 May 2007
Australia:
Behind the $33.49 million package for Macquarie Bank's chief
executive
21 May 2007
Australia:
Police-state measures for APEC summit in Sydney
18 May 2007
Bush
administration hosts meeting of Pacific Island governments
12 May 2007
Corporate
raid on Australian airline collapses
9 May 2007
Australian
budget: massive vote-buying accelerates "free market"
agenda
7 May 2007
Tamils
arrested in Australia under Howard's draconian "anti-terrorism"
laws
3 May 2007
Australia:
Labor conference outlines pro-war agenda
Belated report of Australian soldier's suicide after
serving in Afghanistan
2 May 2007
Australia:
Unions embrace Labor's anti-working class industrial relations
laws
1 May 2007
Australian
Labor Party conference: a right-wing stampede for office
28 April 2007
Australian
Labor leader's US trip: a nod from Murdoch and the Washington
establishment
26 April 2007
British Lancet medical journal calls for defeat
of Australian government
25 April 2007
Australia:
Final votes counted in New South Wales election campaign
21 April 2007
Sydney inquest produces new evidence
Australian governments covered up 1975 execution of "Balibo
Five" newsmen
19 April 2007
Australia
dispatches more troops for phoney "war on terror" in
Afghanistan
18 April 2007
Australia:
bipartisan support for media instigator of Cronulla race riot
14 April 2007
Guantánamo Bay detainee railroaded into guilty
plea
The issues of principle in the case of David Hicks
3 April 2007
Australia:
Union's refusal to defend jobs leaves Tristar workers in limbo
31 March 2007
Guantánamo's
kangaroo court convicts Australian David Hicks
23 March 2007
Japan-Australia
security declaration strengthens US encirclement of China
28 February 2007
Long-delayed
"terrorist" hearings to commence in Sydney
27 February 2007
Senior
lawyers accuse Australian government of war crimes over Guantánamo
23 February 2007
Cheney's speech in Sydney:
An ominous silence on Iran from the US vice president
Massive
security blanket for Cheney's Australian visit
21 February 2007
Cheney's
trip to Japan and Australia: the preparation for new war crimes
15 February 2007
The
strange case of the Australian PM and the American Senator
14 February 2007
NSW
state election: SEP candidate speaks at Newtown forum
10 February 2007
Australia: the socialist alternative in the New South
Wales state election
Support the SEP campaign
7 February 2007
Labor
leader promises Australian corporations "a competitive business
environment"
5 February 2007
David
North addresses public meeting in Sydney on political implications
of Iraq war
3 February 2007
Australia:
Police officer faces charges for killing Aboriginal prisoner
2 February 2007
"Australian
values" attack on rock concert organisers
30 January 2007
Australian
court upholds unbridled right to hire and fire
18 January 2007
Australian
PM outlines indefinite military agenda in South Pacific
17 January 2007
David
North to address WSWS/SEP Sydney public meeting on Bush's Iraq
escalation
12 January 2007
Australian
prime minister welcomes US "surge" in Iraq
6 January 2007
Howard
government unveils new "Australian values" citizenship
test
3 January 2007
Australia:
A bleak outlook for jobs despite official figures
22 December 2006
Former
Australian military chiefs challenge government over Iraq war
21 December 2006
Australia:
one year after the Cronulla riots, racialist provocations continue
Chronic drought conditions create hardship in Australian
rural areas
20 December 2006
Australia:
High Court clears way for expansion of federal power
18 December 2006
Evidence
surfaces that Indonesian military executed "Balibo Five"
Australian newsmen in 1975
9 December 2006
Australian
Wheat Board inquiry: a threadbare whitewash
8 December 2006
Inquiry
finds Australian soldier's death in Iraq an "accident"
5 December 2006
Australian
Labor Party's "fresh face" masks a pro-war, corporate
agenda
2 December 2006
Australian
Labor Party's latest leadership crisis comes to a head
Australia: Police report reveals real instigators
of Cronulla race riots - Part 3
1 December 2006
Australia:
national protests against Howard government's industrial laws
Workers speak out against Australian industrial relations
laws
Australia: Police report reveals real instigators
of Cronulla race riots
Part 2
30 November 2006
Australia: Police report reveals real instigators
of Cronulla race riots
Part 1
29 November 2006
Australia:
Union protests provide no way forward against industrial relations
laws
28 November 2006
Australia:
SEP campaign wins support in Victorian state election
27 November 2006
Victorian
election: Labor government returned to power with big business
and media backing
25 November 2006
Australian
High Court sanctions wholesale assault on working conditions
24 November 2006
Victorian
election: Vote for Will Marshall and the SEP in Broadmeadows
Australia:
Labor makes cynical promise on public education in Victorian
election
23 November 2006
Australia:
Socialist Equality Party holds successful election meeting in
Broadmeadows
Victorian election:
A socialist answer to war, environmental disaster and social
inequality
22 November 2006
Australia:
Labor Party and unions stifle opposition to Ford job cuts
Workers speak out against sackings at Ford Australia
21 November 2006
Victorian election
Will Marshall exposes Labor and Greens at Broadmeadows election
forum
20 November 2006
Australia:
Bracks and the "war on terror"
18 November 2006
Victorian state election
Australian Greens pitch election campaign to political and media
establishment
16 November 2006
SEP campaign in Victorian election Australia: workers and young people speak out on jobs
and the Iraq war
15 November 2006
US
election result reverberates in Australia
14 November 2006
Australia:
Bracks government--a "common agenda" with Howard
13 November 2006
Australian
Fair Pay Commission makes a political decision on wage rates
11 November 2006
Australia:
Anti-Muslim "terror plot" unravels
10 November 2006
The
Bracks government and unions help Ford Australia axe jobs
9 November 2006
Australia:
Media promotes vigilantism and "bush justice"
4 November 2006
Australian
Broadcasting Corporation adopts new "bias" rules
3 November 2006
Australia:
State Labor government slashes education funding for the most
needy
Australia: SEP candidate to speak at Victorian election
meetings
2 November 2006
Australian
media seizes upon Muslim cleric's comments to whip up xenophobia
1 November 2006
Australia: a socialist alternative in the Victorian
state election
Support the SEP campaign
26 October 2006
Australian
government gets its way at Pacific leaders' summit
25 October 2006
Australian
Labor leader spells out pro-business agenda
24 October 2006
Canberra
presses its agenda at Pacific Islands Forum
Australian
Education Minister declares SIEV X history resource is "political
propaganda"
19 October 2006
Five
years since Australia's SIEV X tragedy: the official cover-up
continues
11 October 2006
Australian
Wheat Board "oil for food" inquiry ends with threats
of terrorism charges
7 October 2006
The
death of crocodile hunter Steve Irwin and the promotion of an
Australian mythology
30 September 2006
Australian
government rejects limits on sedition powers
29 September 2006
Militarism
and Howard's "Australian values" campaign
27 September 2006
Sordid
deals as Australian parliamentary parties pick their candidates
25 September 2006
Australian soldier's death in Iraq covered-up
Private Jacob Kovco: the unanswered questions
15 September 2006
Australian
prime minister lashed for stalling on Telstra privatisation
Indonesian court sentences four more young Australians
to death
14 September 2006
Australia:
Queensland election reveals deep disaffection
12 September 2006
Australian
Fair Pay Commission lays the groundwork for wage cuts
7 September 2006
Australian
government sets course for militarism and war
5 September 2006
Australia:
Thousands hear US military lawyer for David Hicks
29 August 2006
Australia:
Job insecurity increases, despite falling official unemployment
rate
26 August 2006
The
political foundations for the struggle against militarism and
war
25 August 2006
SEP/WSWS
meetings in Australia oppose Israeli-US aggression in Lebanon
21 August 2006
Australia: Electoral bill blocks registration of new
parties
A new assault on democratic rights
Australia: Howard's backflips highlight growing government
crisis
14 August 2006
Sydney
marchers denounce US-Israeli violence
12 August 2006
Australian
government to deploy 150 extra troops to Afghanistan
11 August 2006
Australia:
Government MPs defy Howard over refugee law
10 August 2006
Australian
Broadcasting Corporation attacked for "biased" program
on Israel's aggression
7 August 2006
Socialist
Equality Party (Australia) to hold meetings on US-backed Israeli
war against Lebanon
31 July 2006
Australia:
Melbourne rally opposes US-backed Israeli war
24 July 2006
Australia:
thousands join global protests to condemn Israel's war on Lebanon
21 July 2006
Australian
citizens left to face Israeli bombardment
Public meetings oppose Australia's intervention into
East Timor
Australian imperialism, East Timor and the role of
the DSP
Australia: Howard's industrial relations watchdog
legitimises Cowra sackings
13 July 2006
Australia:
Prime Minister Howard facing pressure to quit
11 July 2006
Australia:
Howard finds the right people for his new "Fair Pay Commission"
4 July 2006
Australian
government escalates its military involvement in Iraq
29 June 2006
Tens
of thousands march against Australian IR laws
WSWS interviews Australian workers about IR laws,
the Labor party and the unions
28 June 2006
Australian
government outlines pro-market agenda for its Pacific sphere
of influence
27 June 2006
Australian-led
campaign pressures East Timorese prime minister to resign
Australia:
Kim Beazley, the trade unions and Howard's WorkChoices legislation
A question and answer on Australia's trade union rallies
22 June 2006
Australian
government retains detention powers
21 June 2006
World Socialist Web Site and Socialist Equality
Party public meetings
The truth about East Timor: Why Australia's intervention should
be opposed
A
dangerous precedent: Australian man convicted of "preparing
terrorism"
20 June 2006
Australian
government presses ahead with plans to dominate East Timor
16 June 2006
Australia:
Workers' conditions slashed under new industrial relations reforms
12 June 2006
Australian
government steps up campaign to oust East Timor's prime minister
Mari Alkatiri
9 June 2006
Australia:
Howard abandons Snowy Hydro sale to save the National Party
8 June 2006
Australia:
Howard's reception for the Beaconsfield miners-a cynical charade
6 June 2006
Australia,
Timor and oil: the record
1 June 2006
Oppose
Australia's neo-colonial occupation of East Timor
31 May 2006
Solomon
Islands: Australia's neo-colonial "model" for East
Timor?
Cindy Sheehan condemns Australian prime minister as
an "illegal combatant"
30 May 2006
Why
Australia wants "regime change" in East Timor
27 May 2006
Australian
military occupation of East Timor proceeds "full steam ahead"
25 May 2006
Australian
troops deployed to occupy East Timor
The crisis in Australia's Aboriginal communities
How right-wing ideologues stand reality on its head
20 May 2006
The
Australian media and the Beaconsfield mine rescue
16 May 2006
Gunboat
diplomacy: Australian warships deploy to East Timor
11 May 2006
Australian
Wheat Board inquiry underscores real motivations behind Iraq
war
10 May 2006
Australian
budget: a blatant appeal to the rich
9 May 2006
Australia:
Jubilation greets the rescue of trapped Beaconsfield miners
29 April 2006
Lies
surround first death of an Australian soldier in Iraq
26 April 2006
Solomon
Islands PM quits amid mounting opposition to Australian occupation
24 April 2006
Four
months after Sydney's racial violence: government campaign continues
against Middle Eastern youth
21 April 2006
Australian
troops dispatched to Solomon Islands to suppress local population
17 April 2006
Australian
television program highlights censorship of climate scientists
14 April 2006
Papuan
"crisis" sparks debate over Australian intervention
13 April 2006
Australian
SEP public meetings discuss third anniversary of Iraq war
12 April 2006
Australia:
Employers rush to use draconian new industrial relations laws
4 April 2006
Tensions
between Australia and Indonesia over asylum for Papuan activists
3 April 2006
Melbourne's
Commonwealth Games: glitter covering glaring inequality
29 March 2006
Australian
parliament embraces Blair's lies and hypocrisy
28 March 2006
Australia:
Anger mounts over government response to Cyclone Larry
27 March 2006
Australia:
Howard's draconian industrial relations laws come into operation
today
25 March 2006
Labor
wins Australian state elections with business backing
22 March 2006
Australia:
Pre-selection brawls demonstrate Labor's internal rot
21 March 2006
Australia:
Cyclone Larry leaves thousands homeless and destroys livelihoods
Condoleezza Rice visits Australia and Indonesia to
tighten US ties against China
20 March 2006
Thousands
march in antiwar rallies in Australia and Asia
17 March 2006
Australia:
Why the Howard government has remained in office for 10 years
16 March 2006
"No
threat"--but massive security at Melbourne Games
13 March 2006
Three years after Iraq invasion, US targets Iran
Socialism and the struggle against imperialist war
SEP public meetings in Sydney and Melbourne
6 March 2006
Australian
Treasurer Peter Costello joins anti-Muslim bandwagon
28 February 2006
The
Australian Wheat Board scandal and the Iraq war
24 February 2006
Australian
parliament rubberstamps new military callout powers
23 February 2006
Zionists
witch-hunt Australia's leading cartoonist
22 February 2006
Australia:
former minister fans anti-Muslim prejudice and racism
21 February 2006
Racism, religious obscurantism and hypocrisy
Australian parliament's "vote of conscience" on RU486
20 February 2006
Australian
government responsible for "Bali Nine" death sentences
16 February 2006
Anti-Muslim
cartoons published in Australia
10 February 2006
Australia:
New laws to disenfranchise voters and boost corporate donations
9 February 2006
Australia:
Labor attacks Howard from the right over "oil-for-food"
scandal
6 February 2006
Cut-throat
wheat war behind Australian "oil-for-food" scandal
3 February 2006
Australia:
Howard's ministerial reshuffle ignites Coalition tensions
31 January 2006
Australian
state government set to dredge Melbourne's bay despite opposition
30 January 2006
Born into disadvantage--Australian children face growing
inequality
Children of the Lucky Country? How Australian society has
turned its back on children and why children matter
14 January 2006
Australia:
Labor leader recommends Iraq "exit strategy"
13 January 2006
Political
victimisation of an Australian academic
11 January 2006
Australia:
1975 documents underscore right-wing character of Whitlam government
9 January 2006
Australia:
Police use new powers to "lock down" rural housing
estate
5 January 2006
Kerry Packer (1937-2005)
Why the endless eulogies for Australia's richest man?
23 December 2005
Sydney's
racial violence: a warning from Sri Lanka
22 December 2005
The
class issues behind Australia's race riots
21 December 2005
Australia:
Beach suburbs "locked down" in weekend police blitz
20 December 2005
Australia:
Major companies continue layoffs as economy slows
17 December 2005
Australian
government unveils military restructure and new callout powers
15 December 2005
Australian
government tries to censor Indonesian film festival
14 December 2005
In wake of racial violence in Sydney
Australian state government prepares savage attack on democratic
rights
13 December 2005
As Australian media covers up Howard's role
Racial violence continues in Sydney
12 December 2005
Government
and media provocations spark racist violence on Sydney beaches
10 December 2005
Australian
treasurer steps up ideological offensive against welfare recipients
8 December 2005
Australia:
thousands attend funeral for Van Nguyen
5 December 2005
The rise of the religious right in Australia
God Under Howard by Marion Maddox
3 December 2005
An act of barbarism
Nguyen Tuong Van executed in Singapore
2 December 2005
Australian
government insists on sedition clauses in new terrorism legislation
1 December 2005
Socialist Equality Party public meeting
Australian anti-terror laws: framework of a police state
30 November 2005
Australian
government deserts young man due to hang in Singapore
29 November 2005
Australia:
Telstra to slash 12,000 jobs
28 November 2005
Australia:
"Welfare to work" Bill will enforce cheap labour
25 November 2005
Australian
"terror" raids target Tamil groups
23 November 2005
Australia:
right-wing columnists label political dissent akin to "terrorism"
22 November 2005
Witnesses
at Australian Senate hearings warn: "terror" laws aimed
at dissent
17 November 2005
Police
claims raise new questions about "terrorist" raids
in Australia
16 November 2005
Australia:
500,000 workers demonstrate against Howard's industrial legislation
Australian workers denounce new industrial laws
15 November 2005
Australian
government rams through parliament draconian new workplace laws
14 November 2005
Australian
Wheat Board implicated in "oil-for-food scandal"
11 November 2005
Thirty
years since the "Canberra Coup"
10 November 2005
Anger
mounts over Australia's anti-terror laws
9 November 2005
Howard's terrorist "alert" leads to
Politically manipulated police raids in Australia
8 November 2005
Within days of Howard's terror "alert"
Australian government seeks expanded powers to call out troops
Socialist Equality Party meetings in Sydney and Melbourne
Australia's "Anti-Terrorism" Bill: the framework
for a police state
Australia: Socialist Alliance provides platform for
supporters of Howard's police-state legislation
7 November 2005
Unanimous backing for Howard's emergency anti-terror
laws
A revealing line-up in the Australian Senate
5 November 2005
Unanswered
questions about Australia's "terrorist" alert
4 November 2005
Australian
legal experts condemn Anti-Terrorism Bill
3 November 2005
Australia's
"Anti-Terrorism" Bill: the framework for a police state
Australia signs military pact with the Philippines
2 November 2005
To silence opposition to police-state measures
Australian government declares "urgent" terrorist threat
1 November 2005
Australian
minister admits unemployed will be compelled to accept inferior
conditions
31 October 2005
"Bali
Nine" alleged drug traffickers set up for execution by Australian
police
29 October 2005
Australia:
jobs decline amid signs of economic downturn
26 October 2005
Howard
government abandons Australian citizen sentenced to death in
Singapore
21 October 2005
Australia:
Privatised road tunnel creates havoc in Sydney
20 October 2005
Australia:
Leaked "Anti-Terrorism" Bill details draconian police-state
plans
19 October 2005
Australian
government launches major assault on workers' conditions and
rights
14 October 2005
Australia:
high oil prices provoking protests and discontent
12 October 2005
The
Australian media on the origins of terrorism
11 October 2005
Robert
Fisk addresses Sydney audience on history, journalism and Iraq
10 October 2005
Australian
government instigates move to jail journalists
5 October 2005
Australia:
Labor premiers join hands with Howard at "anti-terror"
summit
4 October 2005
Another
terrorist atrocity in Bali
29 September 2005
Former
Australian Labor leader's recriminations expose deep political
decay
27 September 2005
Australian
government rams through Telstra privatisation
24 September 2005
Australia:
NSW by-elections another sign of political volatility
Australian voters speak of concerns and discontent
22 September 2005
General
Motors slashes jobs in Australia
14 September 2005
Australian
government to deport American antiwar activist
12 September 2005
Australian
government unveils legal framework for police state
7 September 2005
Australia:
state opposition leader resigns amid media furore
6 September 2005
Telstra
sale—a political minefield for the Australian government
1 September 2005
Australia:
another Senate committee whitewash of government lies on Iraq
31 August 2005
Australia:
Queensland by-elections reveal hostility to Labor
27 August 2005
Australian
"counter-terrorism" summit to discuss police-state
measures
25 August 2005
Australian
government continues to back discredited US military tribunals
19 August 2005
Australia:
state Labor leader positions himself for a federal political
career
18 August 2005
Australia:
terrorism trial of Jack Thomas to rely on coerced evidence
10 August 2005
Australia:
the issues at stake in the dismantling of student unions
9 August 2005
Australia:
lack of perspective dominates opposition to industrial relations
legislation
House fire deaths highlight levels of poverty in Australia
6 August 2005
Australia:
some plain truths about the fight against Howard's IR laws
2 August 2005
After the London bombings:
Australian prime minister advocates further attacks on civil
liberties
20 July 2005
Australian
government exploits "people smuggler" conviction to
continue SIEV X cover-up
19 July 2005
Australian
government sends troops back to Afghanistan
18 July 2005
Australia:
Victorian Labor government scraps gambling research
2 July 2005
Australia:
mass protests against industrial relations legislation
“It never should have got to this point”
Protesting workers discuss Australia's new industrial laws
30 June 2005
New
wave of police "anti-terror" raids in Australia
28 June 2005
Two
Australian "terrorist" trials set dangerous precedents
27 June 2005
Under
mounting pressure, Australian government modifies refugee detention
24 June 2005
Questions
surround rescue of kidnapped Australian in Iraq
18 June 2005
Australia:
Chinese defectors given cold shoulder
14 June 2005
Australia:
New workplace laws to slash pay and conditions
9 June 2005
The
Howard government, the Australian media and the Schapelle Corby
case
1 June 2005
Australian
state government appoints non-elected cabinet members
26 May 2005
Australia:
rifts emerge in Howard government over refugee detention
18 May 2005
Australia:
Labor's budget reply makes pitch to big business
13 May 2005
Notice to WSWS readers
Interview with David North to be broadcast on Australian radio
12 May 2005
Australian
budget bonanza for the wealthy
11 May 2005
Howard
government leaves "Bali nine" alleged drug runners
to their fate
6 May 2005
Australia
and the East Asian Summit: Howard's diplomatic "success"
turn sour
5 May 2005
Media
witch-hunts Australian author Hannie Rayson and her new play
30 April 2005
Australian
government poised to make sweeping industrial relations "reform"
23 April 2005
Australian
Reserve Bank reveals another Howard government lie
13 April 2005
Canberra's
slavish support for US brings short-term pay-offs in Asia
6 April 2005
Muted
response by Canberra as Australian woman faces death penalty
in Indonesia
22 March 2005
Australia:
economic slowdown threatens to push up unemployment
21 March 2005
Rallies
in Australia, New Zealand and Asia demand troops out of Iraq
17 March 2005
Australian
government appoints Murdoch hack to ABC board
14 March 2005
Western
Australian election: Labor returned to office with help from
the media
7 March 2005
Macquarie Fields residents speak out Australia: working class suburb under police siege
4 March 2005
Australian
economic slowdown undermines Howard government
3 March 2005
Australia:
Sydney suburb remains tense following four days of conflict
28 February 2005
Australia:
SEP launches Werriwa by-election campaign
Australia: teenagers killed in high-speed police chase
through working class suburb
26 February 2005
Western
Australian election: a campaign of diversions
25 February 2005
Socialist Equality Party stands in Australian by-election
Support the socialist alternative in Werriwa
Australia: former leading intelligence official exposes
government lies
24 February 2005
Australian
government's "terror alert" in Aceh backfires
23 February 2005
Australian
government commits more troops to Iraq
15 February 2005
Socialist
Equality Party to contest Australian by-election
10 February 2005
Australia:
recycled Labor leader says he will act for the wealthy
8 February 2005
WSWS
holds public meetings in Australia on Asian tsunami disaster
4 February 2005
David
North speaks at Sydney's Gleebooks
The historic decline of US imperialism and the prospects
for socialism
Part Four
3 February 2005
The historic decline of US imperialism and the prospects
for socialism
Part Three
2 February 2005
The historic decline of US imperialism and the prospects
for socialism
Part Two
1 February 2005
The historic decline of US imperialism and the prospects
for socialism
Part One
28 January 2005
Australia's
tsunami aid package: neo-colonialism laced with hypocrisy
27 January 2005
Australia:
Labor's crisis deepens as its new leader resigns, and quits politics
26 January 2005
David
North to speak at Sydney bookshop event
21 January 2005
Australia:
Labor opposition caves in on unfair dismissal legislation
15 January 2005
Australia's
disability pensioners to be "coerced" to work
23 December 2004
Peak
Australian union body seeks alliance with religious right
16 December 2004
Australia:
Howard government seeks to provoke "abortion debate"
10 December 2004
Political
lessons of the US and Australian elections
Sydney meeting reviews Australian, US election results
1 December 2004
The
Governor-General's speech: a wish list for Australia's corporate
elite
19 November 2004
The political lessons of the Australian and US elections
SEP/WSWS public meeting in Sydney on December 7
Australia: Howard's Senate victory fuels Coalition
tensions
16 November 2004
Australian
Aborigines become first target for "welfare reform"
6 November 2004
Australian
Labor lurches to the right after election debacle
29 October 2004
An interview with Brian Deegan:
"I wanted to voice my concerns over the Australian government's
illegal foreign policy"
27 October 2004
Australian
foreign minister smears journalist kidnapped in Iraq
23 October 2004
Australia's
peak union body rules out opposition to Howard government's agenda
9 September 2004
Labor's
tax and welfare plan: social reaction in "modernist"
garb
Australia:
Murdoch and Howard join forces to vilify the Greens
8 September 2004
Nick Beams addresses Sydney WSWS/ICFI meeting
The Iraq war and the Australian elections
Interest rate scare campaign in Australian elections
7 September 2004
Wellington
and Sydney WSWS/ICFI meetings discuss Iraq war and the US, Australian
elections
David North addresses public meetings in Australia
and New Zealand
The war in Iraq and the 2004 US presidential election
6 September 2004
The socialist alternative in the 2004 Australian election
Support the Socialist Equality Party campaign
1 September 2004
Australian
election announced: a campaign of lies and provocation
31 August 2004
Australia:
Howard government cynically "tweaks" its anti-refugee
policy
25 August 2004
Australia:
Howard's 2001 election lies return to haunt him
24 August 2004
Australian
foreign minister falls off the diplomatic tightrope in Asia
19 August 2004
Canberra
tightens its hold over the Pacific Islands Forum
Australia's jobless rate back on the rise
13 August 2004
ICFI/WSWS public meetings in New Zealand and Australia
The Iraq War and the 2004 US elections
Former
top Australian officials denounce Howard for deception over Iraq
War
12 August 2004
New
Guantanamo Bay torture allegations incriminate Australian government
11 August 2004
Australia:
cynical shadow boxing between Howard and Latham over US trade
deal
31 July 2004
Australia
votes with the US against UN condemnation of Israel's wall
30 July 2004
The Flood report on Iraq war intelligence Another Australian whitewash
9 July 2004
Australia: an open letter to Melbourne tram workers
Why the Rail Tram and Bus Union is attacking the SEP
7 July 2004
Australia:
economic forecaster slams government budget estimates
1 July 2004
Australia:
tram union attacks SEP after "unauthorised" strike
29 June 2004
Australian
Labor's u-turn on pharmaceutical benefits
25 June 2004
Australian
Labor leader backs down on Iraq troop withdrawal
18 June 2004
Release Hicks, Habib and all Guantanamo Bay detainees
Howard government aids and abets US torture
17 June 2004
The
Greens, the Socialist Alliance and John Pilger
5 June 2004
Australian
PM shares a farcical White House media conference with Bush
4 June 2004
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