BY STUART MARTIN
MELBOURNE As the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union's Victorian branch approaches a round of organiser elections, the court case on democracy in the union has continued another week without a decision being made as to who
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BY NORM DIXON
Iraq's surprise decision on September 16 to accept the return of
UN weapons inspectors was the last thing US President George Bush wanted.
It deprived his administration of a key pretext one that is convincing
enough to
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BY IGGY KIM
SYDNEY A campaign has begun to pressure the Indonesian government to release detained British-born Australian academic Lesley McCulloch and US nurse Joy-Lee Sadler. The women's interpreter, Fitra bin Amin, has already been
BY CHRIS SLEE
Australian Taxation Office (ATO) workers around Australia, members
of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU), went on strike for two
hours on the morning of September 18. The strike followed the breakdown
of
BY MERYAN TOZER
MELBOURNE "The terrible history of the last century tells us that fascist movements have to be fought when they emerge if they are allowed to grow it is too late", anti-Blackshirt campaigner Riki Lane told 200 people at
The Einstein File: J. Edgar Hoover's Secret War Against
the World's Most Famous ScientistBy Fred JeromeSt. Martin's Press, 2002358 pages, $40 (hb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
When "communism" was the official flavour-of-the-month threat in the US,
BY PETER ROBSON
NEWCASTLE After a week
of determined campaigning by students, academics and staff, the refugee
sanctuary referendum on Newcastle University finished at 3pm on September
20. More than 700 students voted in the week-long
Maaate!
"Federal Workplace Relations Minister Tony Abbott last night seized on a Queensland government report by [former Labor PM] Bob Hawke recommending a time limit for protected industrial action by the state's 200,000 public sector workers."
No war on Iraq!
LAUNCESTON Thirty-five people attended a "No war on Iraq!" public forum at the Royal Oak Hotel on September 15, organised by Launceston Socialist Alliance.
Vicki Walker of the Socialist Alliance and Debbie Butler of the
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