BY CAROLYNE BANADOS
SYDNEY â Rallying under the banner Quality service deserves quality
pay, community and social workers will strike and rally on June 23, closing
down welfare services and agencies, most of them recipients of state
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WINDSOR, Ontario â On June 4, 3000 people demonstrated against a meeting
of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Windsor, Ontario.
The OAS, which is based in Washington, involves the heads of state
of all countries in the
BY ANTHONY BENBOW
PERTH â Kierath says our existence is a 'planning mistake'. We've
been here at Wattleup four decades, Hope Valley a century â that's long
before the heavy industry at Kwinana. So which one is the 'planning mistake'?
"Get sorry today, unchain John Howard's heart" was the message on one banner amongst a sea of support for reconciliation and justice for Aborigines at marches in Adelaide and Brisbane, which followed the example of the May 28 half-million people
War drums in the Pacific
Coming hard on the heels of George Speight's terrorist coup in Fiji, the
Australian capitalist media's battalion of analysts were quick to pronounce
the Malaita Eagle Force's (MEF) June 5 seizure of Solomon
BY SUSAN AUSTIN
BRISBANE â Twelve health unions, led by the Queensland Nurses Union,
are planning to step up industrial action in response to Queensland Health's
refusal to budge in negotiations on a new enterprise agreement.
Work
Asbestos scare in Parramatta
BY OWEN RICHARDS
SYDNEY — The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union has banned construction work on the old David Jones site in Parramatta here after discovering asbestos. CFMEU state secretary Andrew
BY CHRIS SPINDLER
MELBOURNE — Some three weeks after winning the ballot, Craig Johnston was on June 9 confirmed as the new Victorian state secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union. Johnston was delayed from taking office by court
On June 13, the general strike that began a week earlier forced the
Nigerian federal government to all but reverse fuel price increases it
had announced earlier. On June 1, the government of President Olusegun
Obasanjo had announced a surprise
UNITED STATES: Left internet site censored
Since 1993, the Burn! internet site has been an important source
of solidarity for militant liberation movements. Burn! hosts the
web sites of groups in the front line of struggles in Chiapas
Green Left Weekly and the GST
With the introduction of the GST on July 1, we will be forced to increase
the price of Green Left Weekly. This will be the first price increase
for GLW since August 1995.
Through the GST, the government
Western Mining present eviction notice to Arabunna
BY JOHN NEBAUER
ADELAIDE â Western Mining Corporation has handed an eviction notice
to Arabunna traditional landowners camped near Lake Eyre in protest at
the company's uranium mining
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