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4 September 2008
Australia:
Labor to strip welfare from parents of truant children
12 August 2008
Worsening
youth homelessness in Australia
8 August 2008
Australian
income and wealth study shows "a growing gulf"
16 May 2008
Australia:
$50,000 for a kidney? Doctor's proposal highlights desperate
health, social crisis
29 January 2008
Two
more elderly men die alone in Sydney
20 June 2007
Australian
government's water plan to benefit major agribusinesses
8 June 2007
Wealth
of Australia's super rich up by 26 percent
24 May 2007
Australia:
Behind the $33.49 million package for Macquarie Bank's chief
executive
2 April 2007
Shoddy
structures led to workers' deaths during West Australian cyclone
15 Janaury 2007
Australian
government cuts thousands of welfare recipients off benefits
28 December 2006
Australia:
A grim start to the summer bushfire season
12 October 2006
House
repossessions soar amid record debt levels in Australia
2 October 2006
Australian
charities boycott "welfare to work" measures
22 September 2006
Australia:
Employers launch vicious attacks on workers' conditions and rights
18 September 2006
Australia:
Income distribution study details growth of social inequality
1 September 2006
Australia's
200 rich list records largest ever rise in wealth
16 June 2006
Australia:
Workers' conditions slashed under new industrial relations reforms
5 May 2006
Australia's
low jobless rate cloaks growing hardship
4 May 2006
Elderly
people die alone and unnoticed in Australia
28 March 2006
Australia:
Anger mounts over government response to Cyclone Larry
21 March 2006
Australia:
Cyclone Larry leaves thousands homeless and destroys livelihoods
13 February 2006
Australia:
A widening gap between CEO salaries and average wages
20 January 2006
Australia:
unsafe conditions cause another death on Sydney's construction
sites
4 January 2006
Reports
document growing social inequality in Australia
4 October 2005
Australian
government boosts profits of private childcare operators
22 August 2005
Minto:
a case study in the destruction of public housing in Australia
9 August 2005
House
fire deaths highlight levels of poverty in Australia
15 July 2005
Worsening
health inequality in Australia
15 July 2004
Aboriginal
family dies in house fire: a tragedy caused by poverty
24 May 2004
Australia:
Unemployment rate driven down by the creation of low-paid jobs
19 May 2004
Australia:
Public housing being "cannibalised"
7 May 2004
Thousands of Australian artists living in poverty
Don't give up your day job by David Throsby & Virginia
Hollister, Macquarie University
20 April 2004
Senate
committee finds four million Australians living in poverty
18 November 2003
Teenager's
death highlights terrible toll in Australian workplaces
9 October 2003
Australia:
Alarming decline in apprenticeship training
31 May 2003
Homeless
man robbed, killed and set on fire in Sydney, Australia
6 February 2003
Australia:
Thousands of households cut off electricity
5 February 2003
Australia:
Seven die in rail crash near Sydney
29 January 2003
Australian
fires: Canberra residents left to fend for themselves
23 January 2003
Firestorm
wreaks havoc in Australia's capital city
21 November 2002
Wealth
gap continues as young generation falls behind in Australia
6 September 2002
Australia:
20-year-old jailed for 55 years on gang rape charges
7 June 2002
Restructuring
of Australian power industry decimates regional community
12 April 2002
Australia
hostel fire trial: Who was really responsible?
4 April 2002
Older
workers hardest hit by unemployment in Australia
13 March 2002
Letter
from an Australian Telstra worker on the death of a 10-year-old
boy
25 February 2002
Australian
government cost cutting results in death of 10-year-old boy
5 January 2002
Australia:
Carr scapegoats "arsonists" over bushfires
29 December 2001
Australia's
largest city ringed by fires
11 September 2001
Sydney
migrant farmers exposed to chemical risks
17 August 2001
A
sharp increase in welfare cutoffs in Australia
26 July 2001
Australian
government minister blames the poor for poverty
6 July 2001
Australia's
Rich 200 hold onto wealth despite major share falls
7 June 2001
Welfare
reports document increasing homelessness in Australia
15 May 2001
Divisive
union campaign raises vital questions for Australian workers
4 May 2001
Inequality,
poverty and family stress undermine child health in Australia
13 January 2001
A
tragedy waiting to happen: alarm system non-existent in Australian
backpacker hostel fire
23 December 2000
Australian
welfare agencies unable to meet Christmas need for assistance
18 December 2000
Australia:
New evidence that gambling industry profits from the poorest
suburbs
28 November 2000
Floods
deluge Australia's most populous state
NSW flooding highlights growing river management crisis
17 November 2000
Australian
government clashes with leading charity over welfare reform
3 November 2000
Australian
bank announces record profits alongside new branch closures and
hefty fee increases
2 November 2000
Australians
living on the edge --new report slams government welfare policy
22 September 2000
Australian
child care workers angered by cuts to conditions
31 August 2000
Welfare
report recommends steps to end Australia's postwar social security
system
25 August 2000
How
an Australian discount airline funds its cutprice fares
17 August 2000
Australian
library workers fight cuts to jobs and services
15 August 2000
Report
into Australian ski disaster lets developers off the hook
17 July 2000
Behind
the Australian backpackers hostel fire: young tourists used as
cheap labour
30 June 2000
Australian
backpacker hostel victims had no chance of escaping fire
24 June 2000
Eighteen
young fruit pickers killed in Australian hostel fire
23 June 2000
A
"very good year" for Australia's richest 200 individuals
20 May 2000
Australian
building company collapse leaves families stranded
7 April 2000
Mailed fist behind a velvet glove
Australian government prepares to abolish social security system
31 March 2000
Australian
bank merger signals a new round of job cuts and branch closures
29 March 2000
An Australian tragedy
Mother charged over son's death at poker machine venue
28 March 2000
Australia:
Alarming death rate among recently released female prisoners
25 March 2000
Privatisation
of Australian electricity supplies leads to shortages and blackouts
20 March 2000
Australia's
BHP restructures in a bid to appease the markets
11 March 2000
How the law protects corporate property
Australian businessman Alan Bond walks free from jail
18 February 2000
Australian
banks return record profits and axe thousands of jobs
28 January 2000
Job
prospects bleak in Australia as government and business continue
to downsize
8 January 2000
Australian
Treasurer advocates lower wages in rural areas
24 December 1999
Australian
Labor helps deliver a "tax jackpot for investors"
21 December 1999
The
end of the dole "as we know it" in Australia
20 November 1999
Australia's
corporate salaries soar as wages are depressed
6 November 1999
A
sign of despair in regional Australia: police siege ends in suicide
28 October 1999
Australian
media inquiry: the millionaire talkback radio hosts from "Struggle
Street"
11 October 1999
Australian
Labor Party backs low pay for young workers
8 October 1999
Australian
unions preside over "orderly closure" of Newcastle
steel plant
4 October 1999
Australian
Green Paper targets welfare benefits
1 October 1999
Australian
companies continue to downsize
29 September 1999
Stock
exchange paid for Australian tax report
25 September 1999
Australian
tax plan: A "golden honeypot" for the wealthy
10 September 1999
Australian
Productivity Commission finds that gambling is "beneficial"
16 August 1999
Howard
aims for a corporate tax bonanza in Australia
10 August 1999
"When the terrors of life outweigh the terrors
of death..."
Another murder-suicide in Australia
"Second wave" industrial laws to strip workers'
rights in Australia
3 August 1999
Public
transport privatised in
Australian state
27 July 1999
Australian
Premiers call for inquiry into how to cut health spending
13 July 1999
Consumption tax legislation passed in Australia
A prescription for further social inequality
10 July 1999
Australian study highlights new trend
Families--the fastest growing subgroup of the homeless population
1 July 1999
Australian
youth suffer sharp falls in jobs and incomes
28 June 1999
Australia
becomes a "share-owning democracy"?
12 June 1999
Australia's
"golden age" of prosperity ... and poverty
29 May 1999
Sharemarket
"madness" boosts Australia's wealthy
27 May 1999
"Life is inherently disappointing...."
Sydney Drug Summit recommends legalisation
19 May 1999
Gambling:
a government bonanza in Australia
15 May 1999
Job
figures worsen in Australia--despite economic growth
13 May 1999
Australia:
A "Goldilocks" budget for the wealthy
6 May 1999
Health
workers falsely blamed for hospital deaths
3 May 1999
Sydney
hail storm victims face months of misery
23 April 1999
Mounting
anger over Sydney hailstorm disaster
19 March 1999
Hospitals crisis in Tasmania
State Labor government seeks to balance budget at the expense
of public health
16 March 1999
Australian
job figures reveal long-term decline
11 March 1999
Australia:
Bipartisan push to further cut youth wages
3 March 1999
Job
losses mount in Australia as company profits rise
17 February 1999
Child
and teenage poverty deepens in Australia
11 February 1999
Australian
youth suffer dramatic decline in living standards
5 February 1999
Australia:
Harsh new penalties for the young unemployed
31 December 1998
Private
health insurance rebate: A further erosion of Australian public
health care
16 December 1998
Welfare
jobs cut in Australia
11 December 1998
Australia:
Concerns raised by deaths of volunteer firefighters
21 November 1998
1,600 children maimed every year in Australia
Child labour--a growth industry of the 1990s
14 November 1998
Full-time jobs disappear in Australia
Jobless figures mask shift to part-time and casual work
6 November 1998
The
human toll of legal aid cuts in Australia
29 October 1998
Australia:
A widening gulf in jobs and income
15 October 1998
Australia's
richest man pays no tax
9 October 1998
A
growing concentration of wealth
20 August 1998
Australian
tax package marks a fundamental shift
14 August 1998
Australian
tax plan to hit working people
18 July 1998
Patients
cut off waiting lists in Australian hospitals
23 June 1998
Australian report criticises 'casemix' system
Patients suffer under new hospital
funding scheme
14 May 1998
Further cuts to hospitals, schools, childcare:
'Surplus' Budget in Australia deepens
social assault
7 May 1998
A
'vintage year' for Australia's wealthy
8 April 1998
25 years since the Henderson inquiry
Poverty and inequality worsen in Australia
Poverty
in Australia: some indicators
19 March 1998
Unemployment
offices privatised in Australia
5 February 1998
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