In Italy, one man with wealth valued at over $25 billion has major influence over 90% of all television stations. He also owns newspapers, magazines and video outlets. Now, he is running a campaign to strip away the rights of Italian workers.
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BY MELANIE SJOBERG& JOHN MCGILL
Connie Frazer died, aged 76, on May 6 after a struggle with breast cancer. She was a poet, a feminist and a member of the Democratic Socialist Party.
Connie's presence will be missed from the Adelaide political
BY ALISON DELLIT
On May 8, the Senate Legal and Constitutional Legislation Committee delivered its report on the package of "anti-terrorist" legislation currently before the Senate. The committee proposed a series of amendments to the legislation
BY CHRIS SLEE
MELBOURNE — On May 6, Anne Duggan, the Victorian training officer of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU), was ordered by Commissioner Terence Cole to give the royal commission into the building industry the
The Indonesian National Front for Labour Struggles (FNPBI), the militant
trade union federation, organised mass actions across the country on May
1. Pro-democracy groups joined the workers' rallies.
The workers' demands included legalising
Kautsar, chairperson of the Acehnese Peoples Democratic Resistance Front (FPDRA), attended the second Asia Pacific International Solidarity Conference in April to build support for the Acehnese people's struggle for self-determination. Kautsar spoke
Manufacturing Workers Union, firefighters, maritime unions, Graham Matthews, Communist Party of Australia, the Socialist Alliance, Treasury Gardens, Nikki Ulasowski, Unions WA, Fremantle, peace and justice, Wollongong's May Day march, Jim Tannoch,
BY KERRYN WILLIAMS
CANBERRA — "Protection overboard" was the theme of a May 9 Refugee Action Committee forum, attended by 140 people.
Former diplomat Tony Kevin, once the Australian ambassador to Cambodia, outlined evidence submitted to the
BY SIBYLLE KACZOREK
DARWIN The fourth solidarity brigade to East Timor organised by
Action in Solidarity with East Timor/Action in Solidarity with Asia and
the Pacific will leave for Dili on May 13.
We will be helping build a well in
Because Grandmagrew old twiddlingthumbs, hands clasped, eightfingers locked together neatas a carpentry join,thumbs barreling roundand round, over andover in useless activityreleasing the blocked energy— the hint was there.
Yet I lived without
Disaster Day
On October 19, 2001, an asylum-seeking vessel sank and 353 refugees drowned while on the way from Indonesia to Christmas Island.
If we are to accept the possible explanation by former Australian diplomat Tony Kevin, writing in the
Museworthy: Smile (Affirmative Action)
I was a tooth on an adAnything brightAnd white white white
For the audition they saidShow us what you can doAnd I sat rooted to the spotLooking as much like a toothAs I could
There was a black woman
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