BY SUE BOLTON
SYDNEY The two main unions covering Qantas maintenance workers,
the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) and the Australian Workers
Union (AWU), won a small victory on February 4 when they forced Qantas
to stop
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BY TOM NELSON
BYRON BAY — People power hit the streets on February 14 when 500 people defied the rain to march for refugees' rights. It was by far the largest pro-refugee action ever held in northern NSW.
Protesters chanted, "Freedom not
BY TIM GOODEN
GEELONG — At its February 5 meeting, the executive of Geelong's Trades Hall Council recommended to affiliated unions that they call for a more humane approach to the treatment of refugees than that pursued by the federal Coalition
Protesters storm Grand Chancellor Hotel
HOBART — US ambassador Tom Shieffer was met on February 7 by protesters chanting, "Drop the debt, not the bomb". Shieffer was in Hobart to speak to a luncheon of the Tasmanian Chamber of Commerce and
BY GARY MEYERHOFF
DARWIN — "It is time both parties stopped playing the game — who can be tougher on refugees?", ALP Senator Trish Crossin told a public meeting on February 5, becoming the latest ALP politician to speak out against inhumane
By Andrea Miles
With the commencement of bombing in Afghanistan, US President George Bush and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair started proclaiming that the fall of the Taliban regime would be a victory for women's rights. If this were the case perhaps
BY NICK EVERETT
On February 5, I attended a meeting of Sydney's Palm Sunday Committee on behalf of the Free the Refugees Campaign (FRC).
I had received an email that day from Labor for Refugees co-convenor Amanda Tattersall that explained, "there
BY MARIA VOUKELATOS
BRISBANE — Young people will vote with their feet against the Coalition government's racist and inhumane policy of mandatory detention of refugees. In Brisbane, Geelong and Sydney high school students from the socialist youth
Sorry
"I'm sorry that we didn't liquidate him." — Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Palestinian Authority leader Yasser Arafat.
Embarrassed
"He can't leave his home. He is so embarrassed about this." — Tom Skilling on his brother,
BY DICK NICHOLS
CARACAS — Venezuela's wealthy elite is using every resource at its disposal to force President Hugo Chavez Frias to retreat or resign. Their offensive reached its highest point yet on January 23, when their "March for Freedom and
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