BY SEAN HEALY
Opponents of food irradiation will return to the Queensland Planning and Environment Court on June 5 seeking to block an application to allow medical and biotechnology company Steritech to build a nuclear irradiation plant in
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Care residents to be hit by GST
BY SEAN HEALY
SYDNEY — Residents at a group home for people with disabilities will be whacked with a $8 per week rent rise after July 1, a rise the home's management claims is made necessary by the GST. However,
BY MELANIE SJOBERG
"The manufacturing industry campaign, which is already underway and escalating in Victoria ... presents a serious threat to the workplace relations system", minister for workplace relations Peter Reith told parliament on May 11,
"Strike cripples business, transport" was the headline of the Indian Express newspaper on May 12, referring to the nationwide 20 million-strong strike the previous day. The strike was called by the National Platform of Mass Organisations (NPMO), a
SA dump battle turns into 'nuclear war'
BY JIM GREEN
The South Australian Liberal government on May 17 announced it would legislate in an attempt to stop the federal government storing high-level nuclear waste in the state. Federal science
Compensate the stolen generations!
Last month, the federal minister for Aboriginal affairs, John Herron, questioned the use of the term "stolen generation" to describe the victims of decades of Australian government policy to forcibly remove
NO RECONCILIATION WITHOUT JUSTICE!
Sunday, March 28
Join the "No reconciliation without justice" contingent in the Corroboree 2000 walk across Sydney Harbour Bridge.
Rally at 10am, Clark Park, Lavender St, Milson Point to demand:
A treaty and
Texmaco black-lists strike leaders
JAKARTA — Textile company Texmaco has black-listed 15 workers who led a strike at a factory here for better wages. It is refusing to allow the 15 to join the workers' negotiating team or to re-register for
The Olympic Boycott Song (in three movements)
1. To the tune of "God Save the Queen".
Boycott the bloody games,Boycott the bloody games,Boycott the games,Send a clear message out, join us and scream and shout,Boycott the games.Let's be
Solidarity with refugees
BY BIANCA AZAR
SYDNEY — Danger. Displacement. Despair. The experiences of refugees are undeniably grim, and the difficult, often demoralising process of seeking asylum in Australia makes their struggle even harder. But
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