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A protest was held outside James Hardie's shareholders' meeting on August 19. I am a city-based Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) site delegate. Over the years, many of us construction workers have seen workmates become ill and die because of the effects of working with asbestos products made by James Hardie.

A new report by the University of Sydney's Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies and Elsham, the Institute for Human Rights Study and Advocacy based in Jayapura, was launched at Parliament House in Canberra on August 18.

Simon Butler, Newcastle The Newcastle City Council motion passed in late July to stop companies who force their employees onto Australia Workplace Agreements (AWAs) from receiving council contracts, has come under fire from local business groups,

Two-hundred protesters converged on the Adelaide Festival Theatre on August 27, where PM John Howard was addressing the state Liberal Party's annual general meeting. 

The battle for freedom over tyranny
Is the battle of remembering over forgetting. — Milan Kundera.

The photograph accompanying the article "The demise of university education" in GLW #639 was taken by Johanna Trainor.

To grasp the real consequence Barnaby Joyce's choice on the Telstra privatisation, we need to count in billions of dollars, unused to that as we ordinary folk are.

Due to a sub-editing error, the article "Letty Scott drops charges" in GLW #639 mistakenly reported that "Douglas Scott was found hanging by a bed sheet in his prison cell in July 1985".

Political heavyweights from six of the world's leading coal industry nations will meet in Adelaide in November. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Australia's foreign minister Alexander Downer, and high level

On the box — OrthodykesMessage Stick: Wayne Atkinson, Cutting Edge: Beslan, Grass, The Cirlce and The Mary G Show.

Two comrades in my Socialist Alliance branch are heading to New Zealand in December to "get married". One is New Zealand born and the other Australian born.

The Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) has condemned Scotland's most senior church leader for inflammatory remarks against the country's Muslims.