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BY ALEX MILNE MELBOURNE — The Royal Commission into the Building and Construction Industry hosted a conference on construction industry safety on September 19 and 20. The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU), the
BY NORM DIXON Iraq's “surprise” decision on September 16 to accept the return of UN weapons inspectors was the last thing US President George Bush wanted. It deprived his administration of a key pretext — one that is convincing enough to
BY CHRIS WILLIAMS WOLLONGONG — Illawarra Greens candidate Michael Organ won an historic 15% of the vote in the Wollongong lord mayoral by-election on September 14. The humiliating defeat inflicted on ALP candidate Bob Proudfoot, who won
ADELAIDE: Picket against war on Iraq. Saturday October 28, noon. Outside foreign minister Alexander Downer's office, 100 King William Street, city. To get involved in the campaign against war on Iraq, phone NOWAR on (08) 8332 4861. BRISBANE: Rally
BY DALE McKINLEY JOHANNESBURG — In a show of people's power, 6000 residents of KwaMasiza Hostel in Sebokeng reoccupied their homes on September 12 after being forcibly evicted a day earlier by thugs employed by a company partly owned by African
BY IGGY KIM SYDNEY — A campaign has begun to pressure the Indonesian government to release detained British-born Australian academic Lesley McCulloch and US nurse Joy-Lee Sadler. The women's interpreter, Fitra bin Amin, has already been
BY ALISON DELLIT "We have allies and Australia is an ally. And I think it's good to always recognise the contributions that allies make and we've had no greater contribution [to the War on Terror] from anywhere in the world than the contribution
The right medicine Regarding John Percy's article, "DSP discusses major left unity initiative" (GLW #508) on the DSP's national executive's September 2 decision to propose to its membership to liquidate publicly in 2003, and put all available
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) said on September 18 that they are seeking “substantial autonomy and self-government in the Tamil homeland and expressed optimism that a solution to Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict could be worked out by
The Einstein File: J. Edgar Hoover's Secret War Against the World's Most Famous ScientistBy Fred JeromeSt. Martin's Press, 2002358 pages, $40 (hb) REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON When "communism" was the official flavour-of-the-month threat in the US,
BY CHRIS SLEE Australian Taxation Office (ATO) workers around Australia, members of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU), went on strike for two hours on the morning of September 18. The strike followed the breakdown of
BY MAX LANE MANILA — More than 450 delegates representing more than 100,000 workers gathered in Baguio City on September 14-15 to plan out their campaign of resistance to the neo-liberal globalisation offensive hitting Filipino workers.