BY NICK EVERETT
SYDNEY Environmental activists rallied outside the Sydney hearings of the pro-boss royal commission into the building industry on July 5, highlighting the record of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union's
499
BY JAMES VASSILOPOULOS
On June 18, Greek workers paralysed the country with a massive general strike against a government attempt to increase the age of retirement and reduce pensions. This militant action underscores the radicalisation that is
BY SUE BOLTON
You have to give federal workplace relations minister Tony Abbott full marks for trying he's having another crack at getting anti-union laws through parliament.
On June 26, Abbott introduced two new workplace relations bills
BY CHRIS ATKINSON
DARWIN NT University's international students are the latest victims of the government and corporate media's racist scaremongering campaign. The pass grade on an English language subject compulsory for international students
BY PERRY BROWN & KATHY NEWNAM
FORSTER "This meeting is very encouraging", began Pat Thompson, in her address to the inaugural meeting of the Great Lakes Rural Australians for Refugees group, held in Forster on June 29. Thompson, one of the
BY JOHN PILGER
LONDON In May, the Glasgow University Media Group, distinguished
for its pioneering media analysis, published a study on the reporting of
the Israeli- Palestinian conflict. It ought to be required reading in newsrooms
BY ROGER RONNIE
More than 100,000 municipal workers across South Africa members of the militant South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) began a national strike on July 2. Tens of thousands have marched in demonstrations in major
BY CHRIS LATHAM
On June 22, delegates at the Western Australian state conference of the Labor Party passed a motion that opposed the construction of a marina near Coral Bay.
The motion recognised the development's "potential to impact severely on
BY FRANCES SHEEHAN
SYDNEY Fed up with being asked to perform miracles on the smell of an oily rag, staff at the Department of Community Services (DOCS) have taken industrial action to secure the extra staff and resources needed to protect
REVIEW BY EVA CHENG
The New Nuclear Danger: George W. Bush's Military-Industrial Complex
By Helen Caldicott
Scribe Publications, Melbourne, 2002
320 pages, $30 (pb)
Although the risk of India and Pakistan launching a nuclear war
BY PIP HINMAN
August 26 marks one year since the Coalition government refused to
allow the Norwegian freighter MV Tampa to deliver those asylum seekers
it had rescued to Christmas Island it marks one year of the Pacific
Solution.
Although Stephen Spielberg emerged side-by-side with George Lucas as a purveyor of juvenile film fantasies during the Reagan era, he has evolved into one of the more important social commentators in Hollywood.
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