FREMANTLE — On April 6, 100 people picketed PM John Howard when he visited Fremantle harbour for the launch of the Dufyken's voyage around Australia. The protest, organised by UnionsWA to express opposition to the government's new Work Choices
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Sue Bull, Ballarat
The long campaign for an enterprise agreement at the University of Ballarat has turned a corner. The March 7 departure of Vice-Chancellor Kerry Cox, who is also head of the employer body, has opened the way for a resumption of
No fooling her
"Iran is not Iraq." — NeoCondoleezza Rice, April 1.
Globalisation
"[Former Wimbledon champion Boris] Becker wants to live the rest of his life in the shadow of the Sahyadri Hills, an oasis of greenery in the dust of the Indian
SYDNEY — More than 240 people attended the Australia Cuba Friendship Society's largest solidarity dinner in several years on April 2. The theme was "Venezuela and Cuba making history together".
Nick Rawson, an ACFS organiser, said the turnout
Eva Cheng
The gap between the rich and poor in China, which started to widen when Beijing embarked on the pro-market reforms in the late 1970s, has now widened to an unprecedented level. According to a recent study by China's National Development
Ron Perkins, Perth
On April 5, the Maritime Union of Australia led a snap protest involving 300 MUA members against the provocative actions of a number of maritime industry-based companies.
Addressing the rally, MUA state secretary Chris Cain
"Almost 6700 Britons have needed hospital treatment in Iraq since the invasion three years ago — almost as many as the total number of British troops still stationed there", the March 31 Belfast Telegraph reported. According to Ministry of Defence
Sue Bolton
For two months, students and workers across France have been striking and protesting against a new law allowing employers to sack young workers for no reason within their first two years of employment.
Around 3 million people poured
John Percy
Traffic on the Green Left Weekly website jumped significantly during March, with an average of 19,791 visitors to the site every day. This compares to the average number of visitors in the previous six months of about 11-12,000.
The
Forever Lenin: The Secret Story of a Mummy — Charts the journey Lenin's embalmed body has made throughout Russia, reflecting the events of the 20th century there. SBS, Saturday, April 15, 7.30pm.
Reza: Shooting Back — An Iranian in exile in
BY ALISON DELLIT
Asked in 2005 if his decision to ask DC to remove his name from the V for Vendetta comic he scripted in the 1980s constituted "throwing the baby out with the bathwater", Alan Moore explained: "The baby is one I put a great deal of
Ray Fulcher, Melbourne
David Hicks' US military lawyer Major Mike Mori told a packed audience at Melbourne University law school on April 6 that Hicks' trial was "politically motivated". Mori was delivering the law school's 2006 Alumni lecture,
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