BY JIM McILROY
BRISBANE — Protesters picketed the initial stage of construction of the food irradiation plant at Narangba on June 13, forcing four trucks to turn back. The protesters have vowed to continue to picket the site, north of the city,
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BY JORGE JORQUERA
HAVANA — In front of us in the throng marched a man holding a flag emblazoned with Che Guevara's face and the slogan Hasta la victoria siempre (To victory ever onwards). His arm did not bend once to rest as we passed the Office
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — Public sector nurses are maintaining a work-to-rule campaign to win safer staffing levels in hospitals. Nurses are refusing to do unreasonable overtime and are making sure that meal breaks are claimed. They are also
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The June 9 email newsletter of Children Out of Detention (ChilOut) reports that immigration minister Philip Ruddock's email address has recently been disabled. This makes him Australia's only parliamentarian who cannot be contacted
BY NICK EVERETT
SYDNEY — A June 1 public meeting entitled "How the West views the East" proved to be a popular focal point of political discussion and debate at the Sydney Writers' Festival. The meeting featured Tariq Ali, Egyptian writers and
BY MARCEL CAMERON
BRISBANE — Maintenance workers at the Caltex oil refinery won an important victory against their employer, Transfield Services, on May 21 after nine weeks of industrial action.
The dispute centred on the expiry date for the
BY NICK BRAUN
The right-wing majority on the executive of the 283,000-strong Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) has declared the election of Socialist Alliance supporter Mark Serwotka as PCS general secretary "invalid" and that the
BY PAUL MILLER
MELBOURNE — On June 1, 100 Footscray residents protested outside the Footscray swimming pool against its closure. The rally was organised by the Footscray Community Association.
The Maribyrnong City Council has recently decided
BY PETER BOYLE
There is a painful image from East Timor that remains engraved in
my mind. It is the footage of Timorese throwing their children over the
razor wire fence of the UN compound, then scrambling up the side of a hill
dragging
BY MALIK MIAH
SAN FRANCISCO — Here he goes again. University of California Regent Ward Connerly, a prominent African-American conservative and former benefactor of affirmative action programs, has submitted nearly one million voter signatures to
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