Unwarranted Praise
Greens Senator Bob Brown, in a June 14 press release, congratulated
federal Labor leader Simon Crean for having taken a large step in moving
Labor from the 'me-tooism' on asylum seekers it proffered during the [2001
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Nurses reject pay offer
BY MARIA VOUKELATOS
BRISBANE The Queensland Nurses Union (QNU) has been in a month-long
battle over wages and conditions in the Queensland Health Service. Nurses
are demanding a 12% pay rise over the next two
News Briefs
'Youth for Refugees' hunger strike
CANBERRA Pro-refugee high school and campus students and young workers
took part in a 24-hour solidarity hunger strike on June 28. The hunger
strike, organised by Resistance, was in
SCOTLAND
Socialists ready to shock the establishment
BY FRANCIS CURRAN
With less than one year until the Scottish Parliament elections,
due in May 2003, the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) faces its biggest challenge
yet.
BY PAUL BENEDEK
SYDNEY The last person you would expect to launch a book on East
Timor would be Gough Whitlam, who was, in 1975, the Australian prime minister
who allowed Indonesia's occupation of that country. So I was surprised
to find
Afghan refugee pleads: Don't send us back!
NOORIA WAZIFADOST is a 16-year-old Afghan refugee now living in Sydney.
She arrived in Darwin with her family in 2000, and spent 40 days in the
Curtin detention centre before being released on
SOUTH AFRICA: Sacrificing
AIDS victims for corporate profits
BY PATRICK BOND
JOHANNESBURG During the last few days of June, at the same time
as the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and Congress of South African Trade
Unions
Spanners in Beattie's dirty works
BY ANDREW PHILLIPS
BRISBANE Workers at QBuild, the state government agency responsible
for building all Queensland government buildings, schools and offices,
are fighting for justice after being
BELGIUM: War criminal escapes prosecution
BY ROHAN PEARCE
The Brussels Court of Appeals ruled on June 26 that a case against
Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for war crimes cannot be tried under
Belgian law. The case was brought by
BY JO WILLIAMS
HAVANA — Critics continue to say that Cuba is undemocratic, closed off, repressive, and that critical ideas in general are suppressed. An investigation of the education system and the young people in Cuban schools paints a very
AFGHANISTAN
Sham assembly installs warlord coalition
BY NORM DIXON
The much-hyped loya jirga or grand assembly was supposed
to be post-Taliban Afghanistan's first step towards the creation of a representative
democratic
BY SARAH STEPHEN
The European Union faces an ironic contradiction in coming decades. As birth rates continue to decline, many countries face negative population growth. The EU needs more immigration. Yet the European Council's June 21-22 meeting in
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