GLW issue 550, published 2003-08-20.

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Writers' festival goes beyond 'the storm'

BY KAREN FLETCHER MELBOURNE — The 2003 Melbourne Writers Festival will open on August 21 with a keynote address by Tariq Ali, the radical London-based author of the anti-imperialist bestseller The Clash of Fundamentalisms. Ali's address, "War,

CFMEU queries WA police industrial hit-squad

BY RUSSELL PICKERING PERTH — The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) has written to Western Australian police minister Michelle Roberts seeking information about special training being given to six senior regional police

Horror on Manus Island

BY SARAH STEPHEN The Australian-funded detention centre on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island first opened on October 21, 2001. The first group of Iraqi asylum seekers to arrive there were dismayed to find they had been tricked into thinking they were

Howard's attacks on construction workers must be defeated

BY CHRIS LATHAM It is expected that during the current session of federal parliament, a range of new anti-union legislation will be introduced by Prime Minister John Howard's Coalition government, including legislation aimed at "reforming" the
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