BY TERRICA STRUDWICK
ROCKHAMPTON — On May 23 employees at Consolidated Meat Group's Lakes Creek plant called a 24-hour work stoppage. As from May 24, the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union (AMIEU) members at the plant will cease doing
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BY BILL MASON
BRISBANE — Construction and maintenance workers employed by the Queensland government public works corporation Q-Build marched through city streets on May 21 to protest low wages and inequities in superannuation and working
Frustration
"It's a frustrating war. The reason it's so frustrating and aggravating is because the enemy is not fighting." — US Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick Fetterman in Afghanistan, quoted in the May 16 Washington Post.
Deja vu
"We're trying
BY ANDREW HALL
CANBERRA — Government heavy Tony Abbott is asking the workers of his own department, the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR), to trust him, even as he seeks to reduce employee conditions and to introduce
BY DARREN JIGGENS
HOBART — Praised by the establishment for handing down a "fiscally responsible" budget, the Labor government was criticised by the Socialist Alliance, which has just announced its candidates for the state election later this
BY TIM WISE
NASHVILLE — Webster's New World Dictionary defines democracy as, among other things, "the principle of equality of rights, opportunity and treatment, or the practice of this principle". Keep this in mind, as we'll be coming back to it
BY ERIN KILLION
CANBERRA — Labor Senator Kate Lundy has spoken out against the mandatory detention of asylum seekers, saying that the policy "in its current form is not an acceptable way to process asylum seekers" and that "children should never
BY SUE BULL
MELBOURNE - The Victorian branch of the Australian Manufacturing
Workers Union has found itself under major attack from both its national
office and the state government, in what many of the union's supporters
believe is an
REVIEW BY LISA MACDONALD
In the prologue to his new book, Tariq Ali writes: "Tragedies are
always discussed as if they took place in a void, but actually each tragedy
is conditioned by its setting, local and global. The events of 11
CFMEU
Gary McCarthy's tirade against the CFMEU NSW construction division [Write
On, GLW #486] cannot go unanswered. The CFMEU does not claim to
have led the anti-apartheid movement or the green bans of the 1970s. The
Building Workers