BY IAN JAMIESON
PERTH — Unions in Western Australia have welcomed a package of industrial law reforms introduced by the Labor state government. Unions WA secretary Stephanie Mayman described Labor's bill as an important step forward but it "does
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Big Sister?
Australia's Big Brother television show is unfortunately not
unique. In the last three years, 36 different versions of the show have
been aired around the world but while 50% of the contestants are always
women,
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
Activists welcomed the G8 summit, held in Kananaskis, Canada,
June 26-28, with a string of anti-corporate protests. On June 26, some
4000 people took part in a three-hour snake march through Calgary, the
closest city to Kananaskis. The march
PALESTINE: Operation 'Determined Path' to massacre
BY ROHAN PEARCE
The expression peace process has become increasingly meaningless.
As Israel's murderous Operation Determined Path continues, and White
House pronouncements lose any
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
BY ROBYN MARSHALL
For the first time in many years Queensland nurses are taking industrial
action to demand conditions in the public hospitals change once and for
all.
A nurse employed at the Royal Brisbane Hospital (RBH), who wished
BY ALISON DELLIT
On June 27, the Senate passed five of the six anti-terror bills,
in effect introducing a new terrorism offence into Australian law, broadening
treason offences to include any support for any group engaged in armed
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
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