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Write on: Letters to the editor

Write on: Letters to the editor East Timor This is to congratulate GLW, once again, on its East Timor coverage. More than any other publication I can think of, GLW challenges our assigned role as the "window-shoppers and clock-watchers of

Foreign backers of the Burmese dictatorship

Foreign backers of the Burmese dictatorship By Eva Cheng Despite its notoriously brutal rule since the bloody repression of a 1 million-strong national uprising in August 1988, the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC) military regime

Poem: Necrojustice

Necrojustice we who lop tall poppies — mate covet justice and won't relent but daily strive to compensate voiceless victims long since sent from this weeping vale of submissions reports and appeals and Royal Commissions no statute

Australian executives charged

By Norm Dixon Two senior Australian executives of a Canadian copper mining company operating on the central Philippines island of Marinduque have been charged with criminal negligence over a disastrous mine tailings accident. A massive pipe rupture

Clothing workers strike

Clothing workers strike By Norm Dixon The 83,000-strong South African Clothing and Textile Workers Union began an indefinite national strike on July 25 for a 10% wage rise. Half the union's membership is in the Western Cape. Workers are also

CFMEU fights for coverage at Dalrymple

By Jennifer Thompson The Australian Industrial Relations Commission is hearing an application by the CFMEU mining division for exclusive coverage of production workers in the central Queensland coal port, Dalrymple Bay. The dispute heated up in

End military ties with the US

The Howard government's reaffirmation of military ties to the United States more represents an ideological attack on mass antiwar sentiment than any great change in this country's "defence" policy. Since the ANZUS treaty was signed on September 1,

Postcard campaign against slave wages

Postcard campaign against slave wages By Kerryn Williams CANBERRA — On July 29, Young Christian Workers launched their postcard campaign against proposed changes to apprentice and trainee wages under the Howard government's Workplace Relations

Counsellors risk contempt to protect confidentiality

By Pauline Groves NSW Attorney General Jeff Shaw has announced plans to introduce a bill to protect some confidential professional relationships, including those of counsellors, social workers and journalists. At present, professional conduct codes

New phase of austerity for Tasmania

By Iggy Kim HOBART — Slow economic growth, combined with substantial cuts in federal grants, means the Liberal minority government will be wielding a very sharp razor in the August 15 state budget. The cuts are likely to badly affect public

BRA blunts PNG offensive

By Norm Dixon The Papua New Guinea government's highly publicised military offensive to "flush out" pro-independence rebels of the Bougainville Revolutionary Army from their strongholds in central and southern Bougainville has been stalled. Strong

Job 'training' as it really is

By Beavis Marks With the Howard government pushing its brand of neo-liberalism down our throats, training schemes and traineeships are being "restructured" for the benefit of big business. In March I was made to participate in a CES training