BY CHRIS LATHAM
PERTH On October 2, 80 people attended a forum on "Why war?" at the Fremantle Hotel, organised by the Fremantle branch of the ALP. The meeting was addressed by local federal MP Carmen Lawrence and WA Legislative Council member
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BY PAUL OBOOHOV
CANBERRA The militant Members First rank and file group in the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) has nominated candidates for union positions representing workers in many federal government agencies across the country.
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BY CHRIS LATHAM
PERTH On October 2, some 1000 members of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union's construction division protested against the return to Perth of the royal commission into the construction industry.
CFMEU state
Sympathetic
"If they've done it because they expect that naming a child after me that they may get a more sympathetic claim... You don't get preferment through flattery", immigration minister Philip Ruddock told Associated Press on October 8, after
BY RACHEL EVANS
MELBOURNE Braving wet and windy conditions on September 26, 45 people came to Melbourne's Federal Court to support the prosecution of 30 companies over alleged breaches of the outworker and contractor provisions of the
BY ELIZABETH SCHULTE
CHICAGO The San Francisco Chronicle called it "a rising rumble". On October 6, opponents of George Bush's war drive against Iraq hit the streets in cities across the United States in the biggest numbers yet.
Up to
BY SHANE BENTLEY
US President George Bush has thrown his weight behind the bosses of the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) in their struggle to break the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) which covers 10,500 US west coast dock
BY LESLIE RICHMOND
ADELAIDE On October 5, some 3000 people joined a protest rally and march organised by the Network Opposing War and Racism (NOWAR) against the US-led war drive against Iraq.
Anglican archbishop Ian George, Uniting Church
A cosmetic change
Like most ALP conferences during the past three decades, the special
rules conference held on October 5-6 was a carefully stage managed affair.
It was designed to bolster the image of federal Labor leader Simon
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