GLW issue 593, published 2004-08-11.

Central Queensland protests US base

Kathy Newnam Over 10% of the population of Yepoon, in central Queensland, rallied on August 1 against plans for a joint US-Australia military "training centre" in nearby Shoalwater Bay. Hundreds of people took to the town centre to demand that

SUDAN: Oil profits behind West's tears for Darfur

Norm Dixon For at least 18 months now, Western governments have quietly stood by as the non-Arabic-speaking black farmers of the Darfur region in western Sudan have borne the brunt of a vicious ethnic-cleansing campaign carried out by

Remove abortion from the criminal code!

Pip Hinman The Socialist Alliance candidate for Reid, Lisa Macdonald, called on August 6 for abortion to be removed from all state's criminal codes and health acts. She was responding to the comments by federal health minister Tony Abbott which

SHOCKFACTS: Overtime

The number of workers in Australia who work overtime on a regular basis increased to 37%, or almost 3 million, in November 2003 Three years earlier, 33% of employees worked regular overtime Only 38% of employees working overtime were paid for it

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Australian News

TWS debates Forestry Tasmania boss

Susan Austin, Hobart "The issue of old-growth forests has been dominating the political debate in Tasmania", the Wilderness Society's Geoff Law told 500 people who turned up to the University of Tasmania on August 3 to hear him debate Forestry

Attempt to ban Palestine forum fails

Kiraz Janicke, Perth Two-hundred people heard Ali Kazak, head of the Palestinian delegation to Australia, speak at public forums in Perth, Fremantle, Darlington, Curtin University and the University of Western Australia (UWA) during the first week

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IRAQ: US troops violate Sadr ceasefire agreement

Doug Lorimer In the wake of rebel Iraqi Shiite leader Sayed Moqtada al Sadr's refusal to collaborate with Washington's puppet Interim Government of Iraq (IGI), US occupation forces have violated their ceasefire agreement with Sadr's Madhi Army

UNITED STATES: Union opposes Iraq occupation

David Bacon, Los Angeles On June 22, the national convention of the Service Employees International Union — with 1.7 million members, the largest union in the US — voted unanimously to oppose the occupation of Iraq. A few days later, a

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Cultural Dissent

The power of the past for the present

The History WarsBy Stuart Macintyre and Anna ClarkMelbourne University Publishing 2003288 pages, $29.95 REVIEW BY BRONWYN POWELL & IGGY KIM History, and the lessons that we derive from it, is a weapon in social struggle; all sides wield it as a

A flawed catalogue of crimes

Bushwhacked: Life in George. W. Bush's AmericaBy Molly Ivins & Lou DuboseAllison and Busby & Wakefield Press, 2004$22.95(pb) REVIEW BY ALEX MILLER In a well-known passage of the Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Frederick Engels comment on how

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