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SYDNEY — Once again, the screens of the State Theatre and Dendy Opera Quays have come alive with a feast of cinema from across the globe. The 49th Sydney Film Festival continues until June 21, with the theme "Small world, big screen". A number of
BY MARCEL CAMERON BRISBANE — Maintenance workers at the Caltex oil refinery won an important victory against their employer, Transfield Services, on May 21 after nine weeks of industrial action. The dispute centred on the expiry date for the
File management The June 9 email newsletter of Children Out of Detention (ChilOut) reports that immigration minister Philip Ruddock's email address has recently been disabled. This makes him Australia's only parliamentarian who cannot be contacted
Museworthy: Our Face I leave peace for thosewho find their way homeand love for the dogswho know how to use it For today the continentsare cracking from the seasand all times are rushingtoward the zenith of understanding This is how cells
CMG answers strike with lock-out ROCKHAMPTON — Workers at Consolidated Meat Group's Lakes Creek plant have been on strike since June 3. The workers are attempting to win back wages and conditions stripped from them after the arbitration
GUJARAT - The Indian government's Narmada Control Authority (NCA) on May 17 arbitrarily decided to raise the height of the controversial Sardar Sarovar Dam on the Narmada River, in the western Indian state of Gujarat, from 90 to 95 metres. This will
BY MALIK MIAH SAN FRANCISCO — Here he goes again. University of California Regent Ward Connerly, a prominent African-American conservative and former benefactor of affirmative action programs, has submitted nearly one million voter signatures to
BY NICK BRAUN The right-wing majority on the executive of the 283,000-strong Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) has declared the election of Socialist Alliance supporter Mark Serwotka as PCS general secretary "invalid" and that the
BY ALISON DELLIT The federal government's repressive "anti-terror" bills are moving closer to being passed. On June 4, attorney-general Daryl Williams announced that the government had finalised its amendments to the main package, accepting most of
Thank you The honourable Philip Ruddock, the Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, has described detainees hurting themselves when some people from the community try to access the detention centre. This is absolutely untrue. The
BY SUE BULL MELBOURNE — The federal Coalition government is rolling out its big guns to attack Victoria's militant trade unionists. In the latest outburst, immigration minister Philip Ruddock slammed the Victorian branch of the Construction,
and ain't i a woman: Too pretty for compensation A West Australian widow, Teresa de Sales, whose husband drowned 12 years ago, has had the compensation originally awarded to her reduced by 20% on the grounds that she is young, healthy and