GLW issue 679, published 2006-08-16.

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Construction worker sacked for speaking out

Russell Pickering, Perth Mal Peters, the only remaining worker-elected occupational health and safety (OHS) representative on the Leighton Kumagai-run Perth-to-Mandurah rail construction project was sacked on August 8 after criticising fines that

Herald-Sun slanders peace actvist

Tony Iltis, Melbourne Peace activist and socialist David Glanz has received messages of solidarity from the National Tertiary Education Union, the RMIT Student Union and various left activists following a slanderous attack on him in the August 4

Gippsland TLC calls for refugee policy royal commission

Kim White On August 11, the Gippsland Trades and Labour Council issued a call for a royal commission "into issues relating to the detention and the treatment of refugees, asylum seekers and immigration detainees". In a media release, GTLC secretary

PM's nuclear dreaming: enriching Australia?

Jim Green Recently, the prime minister has become fond of likening a domestic industry for enriching uranium to building factories to knit garments from Aussie wool. It's a cosy argument for value-adding, but it masks the security and environmental
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NORTHERN IRELAND: Protesters arrested after Raytheon occupation

Nine protesters were arrested and charged on August 9 after occupying the Derry base of Raytheon, a US company that produces software for "Guided Missile Units" (GBU), according to a report by Britain's Socialist Worker. GBUs are being used by Israel

TAHITI: Nuclear cover-up stokes tension with France

Norm Dixon Oscar Temaru, the pro-independence president of the Tahiti Nui (Temaru's preferred name for the French colony known as French Polynesia), dropped a political bombshell in the Pacific country's parliament on July 28. Temaru released a
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