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PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Anger at government's pay hypocrisy

BY NORM DIXON Workers in Papua New Guinea have threatened to take action to have an increase in the minimum wage restored after it was revealed that members of parliament, ministers, judges and top public servants were secretly awarded massive pay

SCOTLAND: Socialists arrested in anti-nuke protest

BY NORM DIXON The Scottish Socialist Party's member in the Scottish parliament, Tommy Sheridan, was among the more than 370 anti-nuclear weapons protesters arrested at the Faslane navy base near Glasgow on February 12. Scottish Labour MP George

No Sweat Nora fights for outworkers

BY IRMA VEP MELBOURNE — With the dulcet tones of Dusty Springfield singing "Anyone Who Had a Heart" in the background, the Fairwear campaign launched its latest weapon in the campaign to end the exploitation of outworkers — a super hero by the

WA voters take sweet revenge

BY ANTHONY BENBOW PERTH — After eight years of attacks on workers' rights and living standards Western Australian Premier Richard Court's Coalition government is no more, swept from office by a backlash against its increasingly obvious

Union support gives boost to M1

BY SARAH PEART MELBOURNE — Major industrial unions look set to back the planned May 1 blockade of this city's stock exchange and nearby corporate headquarters, which is continuing to pick up steam both here and around the country.

LIBYA: Mandela: US, Britain have 'shifted the goal posts'

BY NORM DIXON Former South African president Nelson Mandela has accused the British and US governments of "shifting the goal posts" by refusing to honour a deal to lift UN sanctions against Libya. Mandela told the February 9 London Independent

ZIMBABWE: Mugabe escalates harassment of critics

BY NORM DIXON Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) have escalated the violent harassment and repression of their critics. Mugabe faces a presidential poll in 2002. He will be

Are the Coalition parties on the skids?

BY SUE BOLAND The question on everyone's lips is, are the Coalition parties on the skids? This question can be answered by looking at the voting patterns since Prime Minister John Howard's federal Coalition government was first elected in

Illawarra TAFE staff picket institute

BY CHRISTOPHER PERKINS WOLLONGONG — TAFE teachers set up a picket line outside Shellharbour TAFE College on February 15 to protest management's decision to close the innovative Engineering Flexible Training Centre. The teachers have vowed it will

BHP plans to abandon Ok Tedi mess

BY JIM GREEN The PNG Environment Watch Group has condemned Australian mining company BHP's plans to pull out of the Ok Tedi copper mine in Papua New Guinea without rehabilitating the site. BHP, which announced a record A$1.43 billion profit for

Calendar

Adelaide International Women's Day Collective meeting. Sat Feb 17 (& every Sat), noon-2pm. Women's Studies Resource Centre, 64 Pennington Tce, Nth Adelaide. Ph 8231 6982. Women fighting for global justice against corporate tyranny. International

Action updates

Fighting for global justice ADELAIDE — Twenty people attended a public meeting here on February 10, organised by the International Women's Day collective, to discuss the theme of the March 10 IWD march and rally, "Women fighting for global