Ruddock slams shut NZ door on Pacific Islanders
BY ALISON DELLIT
Thousands of New Zealand residents, many of them migrants from the
Pacific Islands, will be denied residency in Australia under changes to
the reciprocal relationship
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Members of the Australian Defence Industries Residents Action Group and supporters picketed federal Liberal MP Jackie Kelly's office in Penrith on February 15, to oppose the proposed residential development on the heritage-listed ADI site at St
BY PIP HINMAN
The recent well-publicised report by Global Alliance for Workers
and Communities on sexual harassment of women workers in Nike factories
in Indonesia is hardly earth-shattering news. By now, Nike's legendary
exploitation of
BY MARG PERROTT
WOLLONGONG — Mike Dwyer, past-president of the South Coast Labor Council and respected community activist in the Illawarra region, lost his 15-year battle with cancer on February 25. All those who knew him will be greatly
BY JIM McILROY
BRISBANE — A bulletin issued by the Community and Public Sector Union to Centrelink staff on February 22 reported that "Recent media reports have exposed a plan by the federal government to impose a new 'fee for service' funding
Unionists for IWD
I'm writing to wish good luck to the members of the International Women's Day Collective 2001 in your march and rally.
The AMWU remains one of the most male-dominated unions in the country, with 86% of our members being male. I
BY MALIK MIAH
SAN FRANCISCO — "The World Stage, Act I" is how the New York Times called President George Bush junior's February 16 military attack on the people of Iraq. Bush, the good ol' boy from Texas with little international policy
BY DANTE TAGLE
SYDNEY — "There is no such thing as an illegal refugee", Iraqi community leader Zainab Al Turkey told the 50 anti-racists who crammed into an upstairs room of Parramatta's Town Hall on February 26 to launch the Free the Refugees
IRAQ: No to 'smart' sanctions against Iraq
US Secretary of State Colin Powell, while in Syria on February 26,
formally announced that the United States favours "refocusing" sanctions
against Iraq so that they impact less on ordinary Iraqis
REVIEW BY SUE BOLAND
Disaffected Democracies: what's troubling the trilateral countries?Edited by Susan J. Pharr & Roberto D. PutnamPrinceton University Press 2000362 pp, US$19.95
After declaring that "Democracy itself has triumphed as a result
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