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
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Abortion still an issue in Tasmania
BY ANTHEA STUTTER
LAUNCESTON Despite the emergency sitting of the Tasmanian parliament
last December, ostensibly to pass legislation to solve the abortion access
crisis, women still don't have full
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
BY AHMED NIMER
RAMALLAH — The remarkable ease with which the mainstream media obscures the reality of life for Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip has been starkly demonstrated by its coverage of US President George
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
Write On letters to the editor
Refugees
Jim Faggotter (Write On GLW #491) says that if Australia's detention
centres were closed we would get millions of refugees.
Undoubtedly, if refugees were treated more humanely the number
BY NICK EVERETT
& SAM WAINWRIGHT
SYDNEY Since the Royal Commission into the Building and Construction
Industry began sitting in Sydney in early June, lurid employer claims of
Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU)
CMG workers return to work
BY TERRICA STRUDWICK
ROCKHAMPTON Meatworkers at the Packer-family-owned Consolidated Meat
Group's Lakes Creek abbatoir returned to work on June 20 after spending
two weeks on strike and another week locked
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
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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