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BY SAM WAINWRIGHT
SYDNEY
The Royal Commission into the Building and Construction Industry, although
based in Melbourne, has also been holding sessions in other cities, including
Sydney. The most recent Sydney session finished on August
and ain't i a woman?: Women's liberation in Cuba
In capitalist societies, particularly in the Third World, women have fought, and continue to fight, to overturn the inequalities they face. These include unequal access to education, less
BY NICK EVERETT
SYDNEY The coalition organising a mass unity rally protesting against the World Trade Organisation "mini-ministerial" meeting on November 14 decided not to have opposition to an impending war on Iraq as a main demand of the
BY MARG PERROTT
WOLLONGONG The Illawarra Socialist Alliance met on September 8 and unanimously endorsed Chris "Will" Williams as its candidate in the October 19 federal by-election for the NSW seat of Cunningham.
Williams is a 24-year-old
Duck and cover
It is my solemn duty to blow the whistle: Green Left Weekly is within three months of a functioning nuclear weapons arsenal. Government sources, corroborated by national security experts, confirm that nothing repeat, nothing
BY IGGY KIM
On September 11, the Indonesian army in Aceh announced that it had
taken into custody two foreigners Lesley McCulloch, an Australian academic
of British citizenship, and Joy-Lee Sadler, a US nurse and their Acehnese
BY JACK BERHOFF
AUCKLAND The new New Zealand parliament is now sworn in and the Labour-Progressive minority coalition government headed by Prime Minister Helen Clark has delivered its "speech from the throne" sketching out its
BY IGGY KIM & NICK EVERETT
An "informal" meeting of 25 trade ministers will be hosted by the World Trade Organisation in Sydney on November 14-15.
The meeting will be a caucus, involving the advanced capitalist countries plus a handful of the
BY KATHY FAIRFAX
SYDNEY Rex Rumakiek, a long-standing OPM (Organisasi Papua Merdeka) representative in Australia, denied that the West Papua independence group was involved in the August 31 attack on the giant US-owned Freeport gold and
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