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
498
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
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,
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
BY JESS MELVIN & BEN COURTICE
MELBOURNE Culminating a week of pro-refugee protest action, 100
high school students gathered outside Flinders Street Station on June 28,
despite bucketing rain.
People our age are the victims
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 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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