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document.write('Kim Beazley says to expect three things when he\'s Prime Minister. Nation building, Australian values in workplaces, and just reward for the hard working people in middle Australia.
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document.write('The National Policy Committee of the ALP is conducting party forums to provide the opportunity for party members and other interested groups to provide input into the renewal of party policy. Come along and be involved.
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document.write('The benefits of the current good times are not being shared by all in our community. Strong leadership and practical measures to alleviate poverty could enjoy widespread community support, but it\'s simply not on the Howard Government\'s radar.
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document.write('The ALP\'s National Policy Committee (NPC) invites you to a consultation on Child Care, Youth and Women\'s policy. This is your opportunity to be active in Labor\'s policy renewal.
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document.write('It\'s been ten years since MHR for Port Adelaide, Labor legend and Hawke Government minister Mick Young died, but his work lives on through the Scholarship Trust in his name. All contributions to the fund are welcome and well appreciated.
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document.write('Labor calls for national leadership on coastal protection with the release of a comprehensive discussion paper, \'Meeting the Challenge of Coastal Growth\'.
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document.write('Labor Readers is a new group of the Northbridge Branch of the ALP, part of the Progressive Branch Alliance. Participation in Labor Readers is not restricted by membership to Northbridge, the PBA or even the ALP.
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document.write('The crisis in the Solomon Islands points to the need for the formation of a Pacific Community, similar to the European Community, to ease security tensions and promote economic growth.
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document.write('The ALP\'s National Policy Committee (NPC) invites you to a policy consultation on youth policy. This is your opportunity to be active in Labor\'s policy renewal.
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document.write('Labor\'s education policy will see the largest funding increases will go to the neediest schools, whether they are government or non-government, but no school will be worse off - the Labor Party will not cut funding to any Australian school.
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document.write('The ALP\'s National Policy Committee (NPC) invites you to a policy consultation on Child Care policy. This is your opportunity to be active in Labor\'s policy renewal.
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document.write('Structural weaknesses including poor export performance, persistent trade deficits and a rapid escalation in foreign debt threaten our future prosperity. Labor has produced a set of budget rules that give priority to the nation\'s long term needs.
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document.write('The ALP\'s National Policy Committee (NPC) invites you to a policy consultation on women\'s policy. This is your opportunity to be active in Labor\'s policy renewal.
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document.write('The path to improving indigenous health is to focus on success. There are a number of programs that are really working and they deserve the strongest support.
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document.write('The Howard Government\'s ignored requests for assistance in the three years before RAMSI was deployed, turning a local conflict into almost total state collapse. RAMSI\'s role must now be broadened in order to rebuild civil society and a cohesive nation.
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document.write('The 20th anniversary of the meltdown of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor is one reason Australians are reluctant to be further involved in the nuclear fuel cycle - there are also the intractable problems of cost, safety, waste disposal and proliferation.
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document.write('The high cost of petrol means families are paying about $660 extra per year to keep the car on the road. John Howard once promised an investigation into fuel pricing but has refused to follow through...he thinks he can get away with it.
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document.write('Federal Labor has launched its policy discussion paper, \'Safer Drivers, Safer Cars, Safer Roads\', which pinpoints various measures that must be undertaken to reduce the national road toll.
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document.write('The AWB affair is a repeat of the \'children overboard\' and \'weapons of mass destruction\' debacles. It\'s one lie after another. Downer must resign. Parliament must not tolerate such miserably low standards of ministerial performance.
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document.write('The Treasurer has called this day the nation\'s "debt free day" - the very day that our foreign debt reaches a staggering half a trillion dollars. It\'s yet another sign of a government completely out of touch with reality.
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document.write('Harry Krantz was secretary of the SA Federated Clerks Union for a record 43 years. It was the only FCU branch in Australia to withstand the Santamaria forces in the tumultuous 1950s.
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document.write('The global automotive industry is undergoing rapid change, with tens of thousands of jobs being lost in the USA and Europe. It is incumbent on the Australian government to assist the industry to prosper in this country and in the global marketplace.
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document.write('The Howard Government is under-funding TAFE places and ratcheting up skilled migration and the same time as we have high rates of youth unemployment. This is wrong and Labor will find a way to fix it.
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document.write('Labor will develop guidelines for stormwater reuse or underground water storage systems, and for the use of recycled water for drinking supplies, where public confidence is most crucial.
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document.write('A welcome to the new NT Branch Secretary, and praise for the departing Brett Walker.
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document.write('Public and private resources should be combined and harnessed in a way that creates a competitive learning environment and the best possible education for Australian children.
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document.write('John Howard\'s IR laws will undermine the job security and the wages of working people. Labor has announced a plan for an Unfair Dismissal Tribunal that will help guarantee the rights and the living standards of working families.
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document.write('The ALP\'s National Policy Committee is conducting a major policy consultation which will contribute to the draft National Platform. This is your chance to have your say and have your views considered in Labor\'s policy renewal.
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