BY BILL MASON
BRISBANE — A pregnant diesel fitter, sent on unpaid maternity leave by her employer Mount Isa Mines, has successfully appealed to the Queensland industrial commission against the giant company. The commission on November 16 ordered
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BY MICHELLE BREAR& FEDERICO FUENTES
SYDNEY — Staff members and students from University of Western Sydney picketed all seven UWS campuses on November 9 in protest at the proposed restructuring of the university. The strike was the second held in
BY PETER BOYLE
Hundreds of commemorations of the first anniversary of the Seattle protests against the World Trade Organisation (WTO) are being organised for around November 30.
In Seattle, the street protests outside, and the activities of
BY JUSTIN RANDELL
Members of the Democratic Socialist Party, Resistance and others
inspired by the growing anti-capitalist movement will meet for the 19th
DSP congress, to be held in western Sydney from January 3-7. The theme
of the
@head = INDONESIA: Activists plan anti-globalisation conference
BY MAX LANE
JAKARTA — Leaders of the struggle against neo-liberal globalisation here are preparing a major gathering of activists to discuss strategies to stop the imperialist
BY SANA KAMAL
AMMAN The outcome of the emergency Arab summit convened to adopt
a unified Arab position towards the Palestinian uprising did not come as
a surprise to most Arabs. But it was a great disappointment to those who
had hoped
It is time for the opponents of Israel's colonialist war against the Palestinian people to mobilise in support of Palestinian Authority (PA) President Yasser Arafat's demand that a United Nations force be sent to protect the unarmed and defenceless
Maqsood Alshams was released from Sydney's Villawood Detention in April after 16 months of imprisonment and abuse. He was interred under Australia's racist mandatory detention policy for asylum seekers.
Maqsood sought asylum in Australia because he
BY SAROJINI KRISHNAPILLAI
For the third consecutive year, the Jabiluka uranium mine in the Northern Territory is on the agenda of UNESCO's World Heritage Committee (WHC), the international body charged with protecting the World Heritage values of
Accidental good
Writing more than a century ago, Frederick Engels commented that
the outcome of scientific and technological development always has unexpected
consequences. He gave the example of the discovery of alcoholic distillation
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