Loose Cannons
Find those Binladenburgers!
Larry Ponemon, the CEO of Privacy Council, says that since September 11
he's been hired by at least one major supermarket chain to oversee the
handing over to law enforcement agencies of the
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BY REBECCA MECKELBURG
BRISBANE — The current dispute between the Queensland Nurses Union (QNU) and Premier Peter Beattie's Labor government (see article on page 2) is the latest in a series of industrial challenges facing the government since its
Earthquake risk at Lucas Heights
BY ALEX MILNE
Work is continuing at the Lucas Heights nuclear reactor, despite
calls for the government to reconsider the project after an earthquake
fault line was discovered there.
The fault was
BY LISA MACDONALD
More than 13,000 people joined refugees' rights protests around Australia
on the June 22-23 weekend. In many cities, these were the largest protests
for refugees yet. According to refugees' rights supporters, this is
Socialist Alliance makes refugees an issue
in Tassie poll
BY DARREN JIGGINS
HOBART The day after Premier Jim Bacon's June 21 calling of the
Tasmanian election, there was a 500-strong refugees' rights rally in Hobart
the largest
Nauru despair documented
BY SARAH STEPHEN
In early June, BBC reporter Sarah Macdonald and Australian refugee
supporter Kate Durham secretly filmed the conditions under which of asylum
seekers are being held on Nauru. The footage will be
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
Global Circus
Roll up, roll up,
to the head of the queue.
Step up, step up,
come take a pew.
Gather round you clowns
applaud the acrobats
of global domination.
Cheer on the jugglers
Of world-wide manipulation.
Come to the
Definitely not bubblegum pop
BY NICOLE HOYE
BRISBANE With the empty lyrics of bubblegum pop music artists like
Britney Spears and NSync hogging the mainstream music charts and airwaves,
selling millions of albums worldwide,
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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