By Max Lane
The Indonesian press has described riots at Medaeng prison in Surabaya on June 11 and 12 as the biggest in Indonesian history. According to Pos Kota daily, 575 prisoners rioted, destroying 12 buildings, including six prison blocks.
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By Nikki Ulasowski and Russell Pickering
AMSTERDAM — On June 14, 50,000 people from across Europe gathered in Amsterdam at Dam Square to protest against "unemployment, exclusion and insecurity". The protest preceded the Inter Governmental
Reject Coalition's anti-union push: WA workers show the way
By Ana Kailis
PERTH — In 1995, when WA Coalition labour relations minister Graham Kierath tried to introduce the "second wave" of anti-union laws, the whole Coalition was
By Marina Cameron
The government announced on June 18 that from July next year, a new common youth allowance will replace unemployment benefits for young people aged 18-20, Austudy and youth training, sickness and family allowances. The
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By Brandon Astor Jones
"Yes, as my swift days near their goal,/ 'Tis all that I implore:/ In life and death a chainless soul,/ With courage to endure." — Emily Brontë, 1818-1848
I received a letter recently
Anti-racism and trade unions
As one of the speakers at the protest rally outside Hanson's One Nation meeting in Adelaide on June 12, I took up the theme of trade unions campaigning against racism. I referred to the past history of activism in
By Eva Cheng
Early this year, Beijing's international investment arm — China International Trust and Investment Corporation (CITIC) — sold 15.5% of its Hong Kong-listed Citic Pacific to the latter's chairman, Larry Yung Chi-kin, and senior
Protesters destroy government office in East Java
On Friday, June 13, thousands of people supporting the PPP [United Development Party] in Jember, East Java, held a protest action over the elections. This action eventually developed into mass
Strike threat at Olympic site
By Shane Bentley
SYDNEY — Members of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union at the Olympic site at Homebush Bay have threatened to take industrial action if their concerns over workplace safety
By Dave Riley
BRISBANE — State education in Queensland has traditionally been one of the lowest funded in Australia. With the election of the Goss Labor government in 1989, some of this disparity was addressed. But Labor veered away from its
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