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BY SARAH STEPHEN The campaign for safe abortion access has begun again after Steve Rogers, a security guard, was shot dead at the Fertility Control Clinic in Melbourne on July 16. Anti-choice groups such as Right to Life have attempted to
By Stephen Marks Workers at a maquiladora (foreign-owned assembly plant) in Nicaragua's Las Mercedes Free Trade Zone have defeated an attempt to break their union after a year-long struggle. On May 10, as the result of a court order, the
BY ROHAN GAISWINKLER Employment minister Tony Abbott is notorious for describing the unemployed as "job snobs". On July 9, he went further, blaming the poor for their own plight. He told the ABC Four Corners program: "We can't abolish poverty
BY TAMARA PEARSON Los Angeles, 1950: A pre-war light-rail system, one of the most extensive in the world, was dismembered by car, tyre and bus manufacturers and an oil company. Tracks were ripped from their routes, stations were torn down and row
BY EVA CHENG The delicate balance between the nuclear powers is up for a potentially dangerous shake-up after Russia and China on July 16 struck a formal alliance aimed at countering US President George W. Bush's "Son of Star Wars" anti-missile