Socialist Alliance makes refugees an issue
in Tassie poll
BY DARREN JIGGINS
HOBART The day after Premier Jim Bacon's June 21 calling of the
Tasmanian election, there was a 500-strong refugees' rights rally in Hobart
the largest
498
BY AHMED NIMER
RAMALLAH — The remarkable ease with which the mainstream media obscures the reality of life for Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip has been starkly demonstrated by its coverage of US President George
BY IAN JAMIESON
PERTH — Unions in Western Australia have welcomed a package of industrial law reforms introduced by the Labor state government. Unions WA secretary Stephanie Mayman described Labor's bill as an important step forward but it "does
Big Sister?
Australia's Big Brother television show is unfortunately not
unique. In the last three years, 36 different versions of the show have
been aired around the world but while 50% of the contestants are always
women,
Global Circus
Roll up, roll up,
to the head of the queue.
Step up, step up,
come take a pew.
Gather round you clowns
applaud the acrobats
of global domination.
Cheer on the jugglers
Of world-wide manipulation.
Come to the
Write On letters to the editor
Refugees
Jim Faggotter (Write On GLW #491) says that if Australia's detention
centres were closed we would get millions of refugees.
Undoubtedly, if refugees were treated more humanely the number
Activists welcomed the G8 summit, held in Kananaskis, Canada,
June 26-28, with a string of anti-corporate protests. On June 26, some
4000 people took part in a three-hour snake march through Calgary, the
closest city to Kananaskis. The march
PALESTINE: Operation 'Determined Path' to massacre
BY ROHAN PEARCE
The expression peace process has become increasingly meaningless.
As Israel's murderous Operation Determined Path continues, and White
House pronouncements lose any
BY JESS MELVIN & BEN COURTICE
MELBOURNE Culminating a week of pro-refugee protest action, 100
high school students gathered outside Flinders Street Station on June 28,
despite bucketing rain.
People our age are the victims
BY NICK EVERETT
& SAM WAINWRIGHT
SYDNEY Since the Royal Commission into the Building and Construction
Industry began sitting in Sydney in early June, lurid employer claims of
Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU)
BY ROBYN MARSHALL
For the first time in many years Queensland nurses are taking industrial
action to demand conditions in the public hospitals change once and for
all.
A nurse employed at the Royal Brisbane Hospital (RBH), who wished
BY ALISON DELLIT
On June 27, the Senate passed five of the six anti-terror bills,
in effect introducing a new terrorism offence into Australian law, broadening
treason offences to include any support for any group engaged in armed
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