BY SARAH STEPHEN
The information available from the hunger strikers in Woomera detention centre, whose protest passed the two-week mark on July 7, is heart-rending. The July 5 Canberra Times spoke by telephone to Ramzi, who said "We are very weak
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BY ANDY GIANNIOTIS
HOBART On July 2, the Tasmanian branches of the Socialist Alliance called for the nationalisation of the insurance industry to solve the insurance crisis.
The announcement was a response to the July 1 suspension of
BY FRANCES SHEEHAN
SYDNEY Fed up with being asked to perform miracles on the smell of an oily rag, staff at the Department of Community Services (DOCS) have taken industrial action to secure the extra staff and resources needed to protect
BY KAREN FLETCHER
OTTOWA More than 5000 people braved flooding rain to take the
Canadian capital, Ottowa, behind the banner Open the Borders: No-one is
Illegal on June 27, the final day of the G8 leaders' summit.
Despite grave
BY SHANE BENTLEY
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union, which covers 10,500 waterfront workers (known as longshoremen) on the US west coast, is headed for a showdown with the bosses' Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) after the ILWU's
BY KATHRYN KELLY
The occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip by Israel which has
been in place since the June 1967 Arab-Israeli war represents a slow death
for the Palestinian people.
I've recently returned from an Australian
BY NORM DIXON
We have many children who are injured
Their families are gone
Everyone says their parents are dead. with these chilling words a Kandahar
hospital nurse described the horror of Washington's latest massacre of
Afghan
BY REBECCA MECKELBURG& MARCEL CAMERON
BRISBANE As the ALP state government reels from growing industrial turmoil in public hospitals, Premier Peter Beattie has withdrawn his unprecedented threat to attempt to conduct a secret ballot of
BY SAM WAINWRIGHT
SYDNEY — Seventy-five workers employed by Nonferral Pty Ltd in Wetherill Park have been locked out for two weeks after refusing to work in unsafe conditions. The workers were concerned about the dangers of transporting molten
Museworthy: Jose Touches His Toes
Jose's smooth bum
leans up against the cold wall
Tight pants
go all the way to the floor
And Jose says
It feels like a cunt
It really does
And the man looks
at Jose's smooth face
and
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