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Write On: Letters to the Editor

WorkChoices At an invitation-only BBQ in Canberra, Stephen Jones, assistant national secretary of the Community and Public Sector Union, eloquently outlined his battle plan to defeat the Howard government's WorkChoices legislation. Plan A:

Hundreds protest Howard visit

WOLLONGONG — With only a few days' notice, 700 people protested PM John Howard's visit on October 18, when he opened the office of a local Liberal MP. The South Coast Labor Council coordinated the action and contingents from many unions

Learn these important numbers - you'll need them

Peter Woodward $484.40 That's the weekly rate an employer will be able to pay an adult employee under John Howard's new industrial laws in John Howard's new Australia. "But why can't they pay me that now?" you may ask. Because most people are

BOLIVIA: Elections on a muddy playing field

Pablo Stefanoni, La Paz Bolivia is once again on the path of political uncertainty, after the Constitutional Tribunal (CT) on September 22 ordered the Congress to modify the electoral law (used to convoke the December 4 general elections) to

No choice but to protest Howard's terror laws

Tony Kevin ACT Chief Minister Jon Stanhope has done all Australian citizens and residents a great service by making public on October 14 the proposed raft of counter-terrorism legislation that PM John Howard had laid confidentially before

Why Australia needs a civil rights bill

Dale Mills Australia is the only industrialised country without a human rights act or its equivalent. Despite being a founding member of the United Nations and a signatory to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, successive Australian

Warmest September since 'reliable instrumental records' began

On October 13, the US government's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that the average global temperature for combined land and ocean surfaces for September 2005 was 0.63ø C above the 1880-2004 long-term mean. It was the

VENEZUELA: Green Left Weekly launches Caracas news bureau

Green Left Weekly has officially opened its Caracas news bureau, sharing an office with the web news service Venezuelanalysis.com, in the administrative division of TELESUR, the new pan Latin American television channel. Pictured are GLW

Anti-VSU ticket wins landslide election victory

Amanda Zivcic, Wollongong A landslide victory was recorded in the elections for the Wollongong Undergraduate Students Association (WUSA), held October 7-12, for the left-wing ticket Grassroots. Grassroots stood on a platform of support for social

Amanda Zivcic, Wollongong