BY STUART MARTIN
In the last few years, the increasing use of labour-hire workers
in the construction, manufacturing and telecommunications industries has
generated a discussion among unionists about how to best fight it and preserve
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BY RUTH RATCLIFFE
"They were all swept along by the one idea: that they might still get through the adjoining disused mine if they could get there before the way was cut off... In their frightened hearts old slumbering beliefs came back to
BY BILL NEVINS
Steve Earle has always been intrigued by fighters, and by the reasons
why they fight. He has championed union organisers, the impoverished, death-row
inmates and indigenous rights activists. As one of America's most prominent
REVIEW BY IGGY KIM
Abducting DianaWritten by Dario FoDirected and adapted by Shane MorganWith Hayley Buckley, Martin Viski, Moira Hunt, Mark Duffy, Mandy Thomas, Joanne Trentini and Shaun ParkerPlaying at the New Theatre, Sydney, until August 31
and aint i a woman: Refugees: A feminist issue
Figures from the office of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) indicate that 51% of refugees are female. The oppression and exploitation of the Third World forces millions of
1000 sign to oppose refugee policy
HOBART More than 1000 people have signed a handmade, leather-bound book in one week to demonstrate their dissent from the federal government's refugee policies.
The project was launched by Tasmanians for
HOBART The Greens won four seats in the July 20 Tasmanian election, the result of a record Greens vote. ALEX BAINBRIDGE and DARREN JIGGINS spoke to Greens' leader PEG PUTT.
Putt described the Greens' result as a "community victory, not simply
BY NORM DIXON
The Australian government has the dubious distinction of being one of only three governments along with Britain and Israel to have unconditionally endorsed the United States' impending invasion of Iraq. Washington is
BY MARK WEISBROT
WASHINGTON, DC Last week's trip to South America by US treasury secretary Paul O'Neill is Washington's latest response to growing discontent about economic failure in the developing world.
O'Neill, who has become known for
A ceasefire between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation
Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the organisation fighting for the national self-determination
of the Tamil people in the island's north and east, has lasted almost six
months.
BY VANNESSA HEARMAN
MELBOURNE The Moreland City Council is proposing rate increases as high as 22%. The rate increases, which are scheduled for September, are the highest ever proposed in Victoria and are as high as seven times the inflation
BY JONATHAN STRAUSS
Around a thousand people participated in rallies across the country commemorating the 57th anniversary of the US nuclear attacks on the Japanese cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima at the end of World War II.
In Sydney, some 500
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