In a recent "event" put on for the media to highlight cuts to education funding, the Newcastle University Students' Association president and education officer dressed in drag and "prostituted" themselves on Maitland Road, Islington, Newcastle's
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BY STEVE MYERS
For some years now, Russian presidents, Yeltsin and now Putin, have been unable to push a new labour code through the Duma, due to opposition by workers and fears within the Kremlin of a backlash. Putin failed in his last attempt
BY SARAH STEPHEN
The movement for refugee rights took a great leap forward on June 3, Australia's first ever nationally coordinated day of protest in defence of the rights of detained asylum seekers. Rallying to the cry "Free the refugees",
BY GEOFF FRANCIS
HOBART Environmental activists have chalked up a significant victory
by forcing the state government to announce on June 5 that it is shelving
its plans for a deep water port at Electrona in south-east Tasmania. The
BY JIM GREEN
Criticising the German Greens is like shooting fish in a barrel, but why bother? The answer is simple: the party has successfully spread confusion amongst environmentalists and anti-nuclear campaigners.
Since I wrote a critical piece
BY SAM WAINWRIGHT
SYDNEY — Striking workers picketing the production plant of Metroshelf, which builds supermarket shelving, were sacked en masse on June 15 — but have vowed to fight on.
The strike, at the plant in Revesby, in Sydney's west,
BY IGGY KIM
The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions began an "all-out struggle" of rolling strikes on June 12 to protest the Kim Dae-jung regime's intensifying neo-liberal attacks.
The KCTU reported that on the first day 50,228 workers from 126
BY SUSAN PRICE & VIV MILEY
One of those detained by authorities after the June 8 raid on the Asia-Pacific Solidarity Conference in Jakarta was Auckland city councillor Maire Leadbeater — prompting a statement from New Zealand foreign minister
The End of Privacy: How Total Surveillance is Becoming a Reality
By Reg Whitaker
Scribe Publications, Melbourne, 2000
195 pages.
REVIEW BY ALEXANDER DEL SOL
In The End of Privacy, Reg Whitaker charts the development
of surveillance
BY SUE BOLAND
The 21 adult Australian residents detained by the Indonesian police
June 8-9 have sent an open letter to foreign minister Alexander Downer,
demanding that the Australian government issue a statement condemning the
Indonesian