BY SEAN MARTIN-IVERSON
PERTH — Parents, students, teachers and maintenance workers are furious that the state government has been hiding from them the possible health risks of asbestos in several state schools.
One school, East Beechboro
494
BY ANDREW HALL
CANBERRA — Government heavy Tony Abbott is asking the workers of his own department, the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR), to trust him, even as he seeks to reduce employee conditions and to introduce
BY TIM WISE
NASHVILLE — Webster's New World Dictionary defines democracy as, among other things, "the principle of equality of rights, opportunity and treatment, or the practice of this principle". Keep this in mind, as we'll be coming back to it
REVIEW BY JON LAND
This is a two-part series looking at how two different individuals begin new lives in East Timor following the August 31, 1999 referendum on independence.
Rosa's Story, which screened on May 23, is a particularly moving account
Against war and capitalist Europe
Up to 200,000 people protested in Madrid on May 19, the culmination
of a weekend of protests outside the EU-Latin American and Caribbean summit,
which included 50 government leaders. Protesters marched with
BY ERIN KILLION
CANBERRA — Labor Senator Kate Lundy has spoken out against the mandatory detention of asylum seekers, saying that the policy "in its current form is not an acceptable way to process asylum seekers" and that "children should never
REVIEW BY LISA MACDONALD
In the prologue to his new book, Tariq Ali writes: "Tragedies are
always discussed as if they took place in a void, but actually each tragedy
is conditioned by its setting, local and global. The events of 11
The dullest of records were
old Factory Reports bound, called Blue
Books. List of figures, translations of workers'
lives tossed about in debate
and later boredom. Members
of Parliament used these for target
practice (the force of
BY WILL WILLIAMS
WOLLONGONG — "Seventy-nine-year-old great-grandfather, tribal initiate, retired coal-miner, unabashed socialist and enduring activist", was how the May 7 Illawarra Mercury described Fred Moore after the Wollongong Trade Union
CFMEU
Gary McCarthy's tirade against the CFMEU NSW construction division [Write
On, GLW #486] cannot go unanswered. The CFMEU does not claim to
have led the anti-apartheid movement or the green bans of the 1970s. The
Building Workers
Museworthy: Suffering, Related to Ownership'
Privilege
someone else's suffering.
What I should have
refused
before I needed
to give it away.
BY MTC CRONIN
MTC Cronin has had seven books of poetry
BY ARUN PRADHAN
MELBOURNE After 164 years of dispossession and colonisation, Yorta
Yorta people have entered a new chapter of their long search for justice
and land rights. On May 23, the High Court heard an appeal by the Yorta
Yorta
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