BY CHRIS LATHAM
It is expected that during the current session of federal parliament, a range of new anti-union legislation will be introduced by Prime Minister John Howard's Coalition government, including legislation aimed at "reforming" the
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The Australian-funded detention centre on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island first opened on October 21, 2001. The first group of Iraqi asylum seekers to arrive there were dismayed to find they had been tricked into thinking they were being taken to Australia.
BY PETER ROBSON
NEWCASTLE — The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) has been called in to investigate procedure at Newcastle University, after 15 off-shore Malaysian students were accused of plagiarism whilst enrolled at the
BY PETER DWYER
DURBAN — On August 8, in a move described as a "backflip" by the mainstream press, South Africa's African National Congress (ANC) government announced that it had instructed the department of health to develop a plan to provide
BY JENNY LONG
SYDNEY — On August 14, employees of the NSW government's Office of Industrial Relations (OIR), formerly the Department of Industrial Relations, began industrial action in protest at savage jobs cuts and restructuring, announced
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"Hands off
BY MARCUS PABIAN
MELBOURNE — On August 12, 3000 people rallied outside the Treasury building to support the community services sector in the face of funding cuts proposed by Premier Steve Bracks' state Labor government.
Disabled people were out
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
Hard Work: Life in Low-pay BritainBy Polly Toynbee
Bloomsbury, 2003242 pages, $21 (pb)
Polly Toynbee, one of Britain's most prestigious journalists, was bothered by a letter from the Church Action on Poverty group. "Would
Western Sahara is a decolonisation issue that has been on the United Nations' agenda for almost 40 years.
BY NICK FREDMAN
LISMORE — In a victory for unionism in the higher-education sector, staff at Southern Cross University have decisively voted down a short-term enterprise bargaining agreement aimed at marginalising the National Tertiary Education
BY ADAM MACLEAN
After the much-publicised $26.1 million cuts the Australian Broadcasting Corporation management made on August 5, federal communications minister Richard Alston has hinted at allowing it to raise funds through things like telethons
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