At least 600 people rallied on November 25 in support of 25 doctors who resigned from the public health system on November 16 after striking for more than two months. The doctors resigned when Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi declared they
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Pip Hinman
The Melbourne-based Timor Sea Justice Campaign on November 23 described the Howard government's decision to discontinue funding to 13 East Timorese NGOs as "political interference".
Timor Sea Justice Campaign spokesperson Vanessa
Ruddock — no!'
LISMORE — On November 21, federal attorney-general Philip Ruddock was met by 120 protesters when he came to Lismore. The protest was organised by the Lismore Civil Rights Coalition and protesters chanted "Free speech — yes,
Revolutionary Venezuela is challenging the centuries-old prejudices of machismo and homophobia, the legacy of Spanish colonialism in Latin America. Yet as Heisler Vaamonde of the Revolutionary Gay Movement (MGR) told Green Left Weekly's Kiraz Janicke
On November 19, Cuban-born Santiago Alvarez Magrina was detained in Miami by federal US authorities. Alvarez is linked to terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, who was behind the bombing of a commercial airliner that killed 73 people. A stockpile of
Roger X. & Marce Cameron, Sydney
"Nobody should assume any of these people are guilty", Dr Waleed Kadous, co-convenor of the Australian Muslim Civil Rights Advocacy Network (AMCRAN), told a November 21 public forum attended by 100 people. Kadous
SYDNEY — The International Labour Organisation has upheld an ACTU complaint that the Building and Construction Industry Improvement Act breaches ILO conventions on freedom of association and collective bargaining rights.
On November 21, the ILO
Dick Nichols
On November 22, the Queensland Nationals crossed the floor of the state parliament to vote with Premier Peter Beattie's Labor government and against their traditional Liberal Party allies over the Howard government's Work Choices
TankAsian Dub FoundationVirgin Music
REVIEW BY JAMES VASSILOPOULOS
Once in a decade, a band comes along with a unique mix of creative, new music and politics of depth and definition. The Asian Dub Foundation (ADF) is this group. They have been
Kathy Newnam, Darwin
At a November 23 public forum, 50 people heard three Medical Association for the Prevention of War members challenge the myth that the Lucas Heights nuclear reactor in Sydney is necessary on medical grounds.
Dr Peter Tait
SYDNEY — The NSW Rural Fire Service Association (RFSA), representing the state's 70,000 rural firefighters, said it will campaign to retain the existing award protection for volunteer rural firefighters, which may be under threat from the federal
Paul Oboohov, one of the Members First candidates in the watershed Community and Public Sector Union elections, spent last week campaigning in Canberra. The union elections are being held from November 18 to December 7, and Members First is
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