BY JIM McILROY
BRISBANE Centrelink, the federal government's social payment delivery
agency, is demanding that its staff agree to work seven days a week at
standard pay. Workers would be rostered as required by management, rather
than
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SYDNEY Every Sunday at 9pm, Green Left Weekly readers in Sydney
can escape the usual Hollywood tripe for two hours and enjoy radical news
and current affairs analysis. Channel 31's Actively Radical TV (ARTV) broadcasts
a mix of documentaries,
BY SIMON BUTLER
Afghan temporary protection visa holder and refugees' rights activist
Riz Wakil is embarking on a whirlwind speaking tour on university campuses
along the east coast.
Wakil, who is an activist in Free the Refugees
BY BOB BURTON
The Australian government has defended its embassy officials in Jakarta who lobbied Indonesian security forces and officials to deal with "illegal miners" at an Australian-owned mine. In three separate incidents after the lobbying
Strikebreaking and Intimidation: Mercenaries and
Masculinity in Twentieth-Century AmericaBy Stephen H. NorwoodUniversity of North Carolina Press/Chapel Hill, 2002328 pp, $50 (pb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
On 26 May, 1937, United Automobile Workers
BY JONATHAN STRAUSS
SYDNEY In NSW in the 2001 federal election the swing against the
ALP was twice the national average. Federal Labor's posture as pro-worker
and a defender of public services such as schools and hospitals could not
hold
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US President George Bush is preparing for a new war on Iraq using the pretext that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is threatening the world with "weapons of mass
Fond Memories of Cuba
Despite his use of the tired old cliche "cappuccino revolutionaries", David Bradbury's criticisms of Cuban socialism (Write On, #501) may well be valid. At least it is good to see this issue being debated (if that is the word)
BY JAMES VASSILOPOULOS
CANBERRA The ACT conference of the Australian Labor Party on July 26 voted to end the ALP's support for mandatory detention of asylum seekers. A number of motions initiated by the Labor for Refugees group were passed
BY ALLEN MYERS
PHNOM PENH — A showing of John Pilger's documentary film The New Rulers of the World drew a crowd of more than 200 people on the evening of July 24.
The showing, sponsored by the Foreign Journalists Club of Cambodia, was
BY FEDERICO FUENTES
PERTH — Refugees' rights activists at the University of Western Australia pledged to turn their campus into a refugee safe haven at the launch of the campaign on August 8. The campaign is being organised by the UWA Refugee
BY SARAH STEPHEN
After a two-year fight, the Badraie family, who fled to Australia from Iran in March 2000, have been granted refugee status and issued with temporary protection visas.
The Refugee Review Tribunal (RRT) announced its decision on
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