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On The Box

Blaktrax: Gumbainggir Lady — Indigenous music series. Features Emma Donovan, a young Gumbainggir woman whose vocal style is influenced by country, gospel and soul. SBS, Saturday, September 25, 7pm. Message Stick: Aunty Marg — Coffs Harbour's

UNITED STATES: Can Kerry defeat George W Bush?

Doug Lorimer & Alison Dellit With his mother at his side, and a picture of his identical twin brother, who was killed in Iraq, held above him, Ivan Medina, a US Army soldier, said: "We must bring our troops home now. Not tomorrow. Not in six years.

BRITAIN: Respect beats Labour in council by-election

Doug Lorimer "Labour is facing a Muslim backlash over Iraq with thousands of traditional supporters defecting to the anti-war Respect party", the September 11 London Daily Mirror reported, following the shock result of a local council by-election

IRAN: Sth Korean nuke scandal stalls US sanctions push

Doug Lorimer In his opening remarks to the meeting of the board of governors of the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna on September 13, IAEA director-general Mohammed ElBaradei said that Iran had made "some progress" in accounting

Loose cannons

Free enterprise "Oil refineries, power plants and other large industrial operations in California typically pay fines of a few thousand dollars for exceeding air pollution standards, not enough to deter them from repeated violations." — Los

Abetz dodges lie-detector test

Abetz dodges lie-detector test HOBART — Members of the Socialist Alliance gathered outside Liberal Senator Eric Abetz's office on September 15 to challenge him to take a 'lie detector' test. Abetz was unavailable, so Liberal Party policies

News briefs #4

#4 Refugees on hunger strike ADELAIDE — On September 14, asylum seekers from Sri Lanka, including some Tamils, being held in the Baxter Detention Centre began a protest on the third anniversary of their controversial arrival in Australia's

Murdoch's war on journalism

BY AUSTIN WHITTEN Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism, a recently released documentary about the Fox News channel in the US, has mostly been ignored in Australia by the corporate media. At the same time, lawyers have threatened to sue a

News briefs #2

#2 Meat workers win after long battle LAUNCESTON — On September 15, an 18-month industrial dispute came to an end at Blue Ribbon's plant in St Leonards. Seventeen workers received $500,000 in wages owed, which had accumulated since the

Write on: Letters to the editor

James Hardie Just read the write up on "James Hardie: Murder by another name" (GLW #598) and want to thank you for writing something on this as my father passed away in June 2002 from mesothelioma. This company, I feel, murdered my father. Thanks

SHOCKFACTS: Workplace deaths

More than 2000 Australians die annually due to workplace accidents and disease. Each day, 50 young workers suffer work-related injuries, five of them leading to permanent incapacity. A worker is injured seriously enough to lodge a workers'

International support flows in for Craig Johnston

Sue Bolton, Melbourne Within 24 hours of sending out a sign-on statement calling for Australian trade unionist Craig Johnston to be released from jail, unions, left parties and activists in 10 countries had signed their support for the statement.