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WEST PAPUA: Mounting evidence TNI behind Freeport killings

BY JAMES BALOWSKI Three weeks after the fatal shooting of two Americans and an Indonesian from the Freeport gold and copper mine in Indonesia's eastern-most province of West Papua, the identity of the perpetrators is still unclear. Indonesian

Anti-war organising to be focus of Resistance conference

BY LEIGH HUGHES Refugee activists, trade union militants, free education campaigners and socialists by the trainload are to gather at Trades Hall this weekend to discuss and further their respective struggles. They will be attending the 31st

NTEU protests sacking

BY KERRY VERNON BRISBANE — University of Queensland (UQ) academics, members of the National Tertiary Education Industry Union, will take industrial action from September 25 over the university's decision not to renew the employment contract of

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Maaate! "Federal Workplace Relations Minister Tony Abbott last night seized on a Queensland government report by [former Labor PM] Bob Hawke recommending a time limit for protected industrial action by the state's 200,000 public sector workers."

Will ARTV be censored?

BY SIMON TAYLER SYDNEY — Every Sunday night, Channel 31's Actively Radical TV (ARTV) program includes The Palestine Report, a segment on the conflict in Palestine. The report presents viewers with a point of view that the mainstream media

GERMANY: How Greens sold out on nuclear power

BY JOCHEN STAY BERLIN — Looking back now at the promises made by the German Green Party and the Social Democratic Party (SPD) during the 1998 election campaign, it is clear that the record of the SPD-Green coalition government on nuclear power

Duncan Hallas (1925-2002)

BY CHRIS BAMBERY& ALEX CALLINICOS LONDON — It is with deep regret that we must inform you of the death on September 17 of Duncan Hallas. Duncan was one of the founders of the International Socialist Tendency (IST). He supported Tony Cliff

Evolve wins low-key elections

BY STUART MUNCKTON CANBERRA — In a low-key Australian National University Students Association (ANUSA) elections, held September 9-12, the Evolve ticket won all executive positions, National Union of Students (NUS) delegate positions and

BRAZIL: Referendum rejects FTAA

BY IGGY KIM Of the 10,149,542 Brazilians who participated in a week-long unofficial referendum on the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), 9,979,964 (98.33%) voted against Brazil joining the US-dominated economic bloc. The

TPV refugees: Living in limbo

BY SARAH STEPHEN The Australian government speaks proudly of this countrys history of resettling large numbers of refugees (numbering 600,000 since World War II), keen to present an image of Australia as a country that opens its arms to those who

And ain't i a woman: Fighting for abortion in the ACT

And ain't i a woman: Fighting for abortion in the ACT Since anti-abortion laws were removed from the criminal code on August 21, the Australian Capital Territory has had the most progressive abortion laws in Australia. These laws

Construction unions hold alternative safety seminar

BY ALEX MILNE MELBOURNE — The Royal Commission into the Building and Construction Industry hosted a conference on construction industry safety on September 19 and 20. The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU), the