BY ANDREW HALL
CANBERRA — Activists from the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) rank-and-file group, Members First, are campaigning against the latest tactic in the federal government's war on workers: using the federal government's New
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BY ALISON DELLIT
After badly scalding his face, a friend of mine went to the emergency department of Sydney's Westmead Hospital at 2am, where he waited for six hours before his burns were even looked at.
Stories like this are common. Australia's
BY PETER GELLERT
MEXICO CITY — The first major conflict between the mass movement and Mexico's President Vicente Fox's administration has ended in a qualified victory for those opposed to the construction of a new international airport for the
Museworthy: Your Pen & Mine
The epiphanies are rushing togetherThe epiphanies of povertyOf light and emptiness and the mass of lifeThat remembers itselfIn the square of your childhood village
The sunflower's head is too heavyFor its
BY SARAH STEPHEN
The forced return of Alamdar and Montazar Baktiyari to the Woomera immigration prison — which dramatically unfolded on news telecasts on July 18 — has horrified millions of people across Australia and the world. It was a
BY BORIS KAGARLITSKY
MOSCOW — For 10 years now, a chorus of politicians, journalists and sociologists has been telling the Russian people a story as simple and appealing as Little Red Riding Hood.
It goes like this: society was deformed by
BY ARUN PRADHAN
MELBOURNE — Forget about the Gold Coast, the next series of Big Brother should be televised from the Woomera refugee detention centre according to comedian Rod Quantock. After all, "it's all ready to go, all you need is the
BY EVA CHENG
As US corporate crime scandals spread by the day, even US President George Bush and vice-president Dick Cheney have been implicated in the shady practices that have triggered panic on stockmarkets around the world.
The US Securities
BY NICOLE HILDER
WOLLONGONG — In an eight-page glossy brochure delivered to northern Illawarra residents in May, Stocklands describes itself as "one of the most respected development and investment groups in Australia". Yet its Sandon Point
BY DALE MILLS
SYDNEY — "If you're under 30 and born in an Australian hospital, there is a permanent record of your blood which can be used for DNA profiling" a forum was told on July 17.
The meeting, titled "A Critical Forum on Surveillance and
David Bradbury replies
Your review of Fond Memories of Cuba (GLW #500) is what reluctantly I have come to expect of the dogmatic left response your paper has on too many issues that vitally concern all progressive and left minded people in
BY NICK FREDMAN
LISMORE — At a breakfast function for businesspeople here on July 18, deputy prime minister John Anderson was met by banners, placards and twenty-five chanting people opposing the government's policy of the mandatory detention of
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