BY MARCE CAMERON
BRISBANE — On August 19, Australian Manufacturing Workers Union organiser Maggie May came to work and found a fax on her chair from AMWU national secretary Doug Cameron telling her that she would no longer be working for the
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BY TONY ILTIS
MELBOURNE — Residents of the western suburb of Sunshine who have been campaigning for nine years to have a local outdoor pool reopened have reacted with scepticism to the setting up of a 25-member advisory group to be headed by
BY NICK SOUDAKOFF
On July 14, Australia's Prime Minister John Howard announced a A$5 million security aid package, after meeting with Philippines President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in Manila.
The package, aimed at "counter-terrorism activities",
BY ALEX MILNE
The Tarkine is the largest unprotected wilderness area in Tasmania, covering some 377,000 hectares of the state's northwest. It is a beautiful and dramatic region, with wild rivers, deep gorges and vast rainforests. Here, some of the
BY MARCUS PABIAN
MELBOURNE — On August 21, 300 members of he National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) were joined by delegates to the ACTU congress in a protest rally against the Howard government's proposed changes to university funding which
De Mello's death unnecessary
I worked with Sergio de Mello as his Indonesian interpreter in East Timor over a two-year period, when he was UN transitional administrator there. I accompanied him and his staff in a wide range of meetings and on a
BY ROHAN PEARCE
Despite the abject failure to find any weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq, Pentagon officials remain upbeat on the issue.
After testifying to the US Senate's armed services committee on July 31, US Army Major-General Keith
BY SUE BOLTON
MELBOURNE — The ACTU executive's choice of guest speakers at the peak union body's 2003 congress, held August 18-21, left a bitter taste in the mouths of many unionists.
On the second day, Qantas board "chairman" Margaret Jackson
MELBOURNE — On August 20, 1000 construction workers rallied outside the ACTU congress. Organised by the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union, the rally called on the ACTU to support unions resisting the federal government's legislative
On August 26, 2001, 433 asylum seekers were rescued by a Norwegian vessel, the MV Tampa, on their way to Australia. When the Tampa attempted to enter Australian waters in order to drop off the asylum seekers, it was boarded by the SAS and prevented
BY DIANNE HILES
"Tell the women of Australia we are here. We want to see our husbands. We want our children to be happy."
Just what is so unreasonable about these sentiments?
These words were uttered to Marianne Dickie by distraught Afghan
The War on ErrorismNOFXFat Wreck Chords
REVIEW BY JAMES VASSILOPOULOS
Veteran US punks NOFX are not your typical band. You will not see the ad for their latest CD, The War on Errorism, on television after the doggy biscuit commercial. NOFX's
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