BY SUE BULL
MELBOURNE As the Royal Commission into the Building and Construction Industry began sitting again in Melbourne, a union leader has been threatened with imprisonment, a former union leader has condemned union activities and 5000
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BY ANDREW HALL
CANBERRA The 30-year-old symbol of the fight for Indigenous justice, the Aboriginal Tent Embassy on the lawns in front of Old Parliament House, is facing serious threats of removal.
This follows hard on the heels of the July
BY VIRGINIA BROWN
PERTH "Today, men are the only standing target. It is no longer permissible to take potshots at women. A few decades of lobbying by women activists has taken care of that. But men are still fair game for television
BY TERRICA STRUDWICK
South African-based fast food chain Nando's has come under fire for a radio advertisement that mocks the desperate situation refugees face in Australian detention centres.
The ad, which was pulled after a deluge of
The human cost of the 'Pacific solution'
On August 26, 2001, 433 asylum seekers aboard an Indonesian fishing
boat, the KM Palapa 1, overloaded and sinking, were rescued by the
Norwegian freighter, MV Tampa. On August 27, the Howard
BY SIMON MILLAR
MELBOURNE On August
12, Denis Matson, one of the two national industrial officers for the printing
division of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union was summarily sacked
by AMWU national secretary Doug Cameron, and
BY GRANT COLEMAN
WOLLONGONG — Four hundred of the Illawarra Grammar School's 600 students attended a voluntary assembly on August 16 to discuss the plight of refugees in Australia's detention centres. The meeting was organised by about 20
LAGOS One woman was shot dead on August 8 in Nigeria's southern oil
town of Warri when groups of women protesters besieged the premises of
oil transnationals Royal-Dutch Shell and ChevronTexaco, witnesses said.
They said two groups of
BY SAM KING
BRISBANE Students from the University of Queensland, Queensland University of Technology and Griffith University surrounded the UQ chancellery building on August 12. The 200-strong protest, organised by Campaign Against Fees
BY JIM GREEN
For the past three years, corporate polluters have been working to undermine the United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), at which delegations from 174 countries will gather in Johannesburg, South Africa, from
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