BY TERRICA STRUDWICK
ROCKHAMPTON — Women have been at the forefront of the battle against Consolidated Meat Group, since CMG's announcement on January 12 that its Rockhampton plant was closing, putting 1350 employees out of work.
The workers,
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BY NICK FREDMAN
COOLUM — "Wouldn't it be fantastic if the police went over to the Hyatt and arrested the people who are the real criminals — who are responsible for injustice around the world?", human rights activist Ross Daniels asked the
BY TERRICA STRUDWICK
ROCKHAMPTON On February 27, 500 anxious workers gathered to discuss
the campaign to save their jobs, with pay and conditions intact, at Consolidated
Meat Groups Rockhampton plant. More than 1300 workers are yet to
BY JIM GREEN
Feigned concern for the environment has long been one of the arguments used by the far right to argue against immigration. But calls for zero population growth or reduced population levels, and for reduced or zero immigration, have
Palm Sunday
Nick Everett's reported expulsion (GLW #480) and the continued exclusion of DSP members from the organising committee of the Sydney Palm Sunday rally represents an unnecessary distraction for genuine left forces in Sydney.
As a
GLW #481 incorrectly credited a photo of the Tasmanian Weld picket to Neil Cremasco. The photographer was Steve Lucas.
From Green Left Weekly, March 6, 2002.
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BY PETER BOYLE
The decision of the Sydney Palm Sunday 2002 peace rally organising committee to exclude participation by members of the Democratic Socialist Party has provoked widespread protest, including from the NSW Greens.
Dave Bell, secretary
BY SEAN HEALY
SYDNEY - The owners' plan for the Grand Midnight Star would have been nothing like it. Rather than becoming just another block of flats, the enormous Heritage-listed art deco theatre on Parramatta Road in Homebush has become a "social
BY GARY MEYERHOFF
DARWIN The NT Labor government's zero tolerance policies towards
illicit drug users look set to be harsher than those of the former Country
Liberal Party (CLP) government.
On February 21, the government announced its
BY RUSSELL PICKERING
PERTH — Four hundred people marched through Perth city centre on March 2 demanding the closure of all refugee detention centres. Organised by a broad organising committee initiated by the Refugee Rights Action Network, the
BY SARAH STEPHEN
In the week before the March 2 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, refugees; rights groups released a statement from refugees' rights groups, aimed at CHOGM delegates, titled "Time to end inhuman refugee policies".
The
BY SUE BULL
MELBOURNE — Construction workers have been poring over the sordid details emerging from the royal commission into the construction industry. No worker in the industry could have missed the sensational allegations by a supposed former
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