SYDNEY — The NSW coroner announced on June 15 that an inquiry will be held into the death of Australian journalist Brian Peters in East Timor in 1975. Peters' sister, Maureen Tolfree, made the application for an inquest a year ago.
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Sam Wainwright
If anything summed up the mood of defiance at the National Union Fightback Conference at Trades Hall in Melbourne on June 11, it was the hero's welcome accorded to former Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) Victorian
Raul Bassi
The Australian people closely followed the situation of Douglas Wood, the hostage in Iraq who has just been freed. His situation was aggravated by the totally wrong policies of the Australian government.
This government went to war
The following statement was adopted by the National Union Fightback Conference in Melbourne on June 11.
With control of the Senate on July 1, the Howard government will begin an all-out attack on the rights of working people. The Coalition's plan
In recent years, cheap imported chicken from the US and Europe — usually fatty chicken parts in unlabelled packages — has flooded Ghana's market, leading to a collapse in demand for local poultry. In 2004, an estimated 40,000 tonnes of chicken
On June 16, Bougainville's first autonomous government was sworn in at a ceremony watched by its new president, Joseph Kabui, and Papua New Guinean Prime Minister Michael Somare. A 40-member parliament for the island province was elected on May 27, a
ADELAIDE — For the second month in a row, more than 30 young people picketed ANZ House in Grenfell street on June 3. Protesters condemned ANZ for profiting from the war in Iraq through its involvement in the Iraq Trade Bank.
The protest evolved
Stuart Munckton
"When the Argentine economy collapsed in December 2001, doomsday predictions abounded. Unless it adopted orthodox economic policies and quickly cut a deal with its foreign creditors, hyperinflation would surely follow, the peso
There has been a disturbing new development affecting women's access to abortion services in NSW and possibly other states. On June 14, a number of NSW abortion providers decided to no longer bulk-bill their clients.
For women with health-care
CANBERRA — At noon on June 9, around 40 staff working for Governor-General Michael Jeffery at Government House in Yarralumla walked off the job to demand a wage rise after almost nine months of negotiations. The staff had rejected a management pay
MELBOURNE — On June 17, 35 people rallied outside the Maribyrnong detention centre to demand the closure of the facility. The protest, part of a series of actions to mark World Refugee Day, was initiated by Resistance high-school activists.
On June 14, the US Senate finally apologised for its failure to pass a federal anti-lynching law. Between 1882 and 1968, 4700 people, almost all of them black, were lynched in the United States. Their offences ranged from murder to looking
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