BY MELANIE SJOBERG
SYDNEY Sixty unionists attended a meeting organised by the NSW
Labor Council on February 26 to discuss the impending war on Iraq and the
response of the unions.
ALP foreign affairs spokesperson Kevin Rudd described the
528
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — Tasmanian education minister Paula Wriedt and federal education minister Brendan Nelson have publicly chastised secondary students planning to join the March 5 national student strike against the war on Iraq. Student
Crescent Petroleum (Ratawi and WDB 5); Romania's Petrom (WDB4 and Khurmal); a consortium from South Korea (Halfaya and WDB7); Spain's Repsol (WDB4); Taiwan's CPC (Gharraf); Tunisia's Setcar (field development); Vietnam's Petrovietnam for a
BY LINDSAY ROWAN
"The revolution will not go better with Coke. The revolution will not fight the germs that may cause bad breath. The revolution will put you in the driver's seat. The revolution will not be televised" — Gil Scott Heron.
In the
BY
GRANT COLEMAN
On March 18 the federal cabinet approved education minister Brendan
Nelson's proposed reforms to Australia's higher education system. According
to the March 25 Sydney Morning Herald, implementation of the Nelson
review
BY
JAMES BALOWSKI
JAKARTA On February 24, hundreds of demonstrators from
the People's Democratic Party (PRD) took action against US plans to attack
Iraq.
The demonstration began at the Hotel Indonesia roundabout in central
Jakarta then
BY DAVID BACON
SAN FRANCISCO In the wake of the massive global anti-war protests
on February 14-16, opposition to a US war on Iraq among trade unions in
many countries may take a much more tangible form.
More than 200 unions and 550 union
BRISBANE On March 1, 200 anti-war protesters marched from the inner-city
suburb of West End to King George Square in the city, where a rally was
being held to greet the newly established Peace Embassy. The march and
rally were initiated by
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