BY RACHEL EVANS & LINDA WALDRON
MELBOURNE — With up to 10 picket lines across Melbourne and in Geelong over the past month, the Socialist Alliance has shown how it is possible to offer solidarity to fighting workers.
The Geelong branch of the
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BY ROHAN PEARCE
On May 30, US President George Bush told Polish television that the US military had found Iraq's "weapons of mass destruction" (WMD). Well, sort of. Remember the three (some media outlets have inaccurately reported two) trailers the
REVIEW BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
Matrix ReloadedWritten and directed by Larry and Andy WachowskiWith Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Laurence FishburneAt cinemas every-bloody-where
Zanny Begg's review of the first Matrix movie (Green Left Weekly #364,
BY PETER BAKER & ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — The Bacon Labor government released its state budget on May 22. Treasurer David Crean described it as "about sharing rewards" and the May 23 Mercury lauded Crean as "com[ing] close to being a hero in
By JAMES BALOWSKI
JAKARTA — Although coverage of Indonesia's brutal war in its northern-most province of Aceh has all but disappeared from the international media, it is still front-page news here. If you believe the headlines, the Indonesian
BY JAMES BALOWSKI
At around 9pm on June 4, two German tourists camping out near Lueng Gayo beach in the sub-district of Teunom in West Aceh were fired on by Indonesian troops (TNI). Lothar Heinrich Albert (54) died from a bullet wound to the chest
BY DOUG LORIMER
This year's annual meeting of the heads of the Group of Eight (G8) countries — the United States, Japan, Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Canada and Russia — glossed over the deepening economic problems confronting the world
BY EMMA CLANCY
Protest actions were held in a number of capital cities last week to oppose the Howard government's drive to deregulate and privatise higher education.
On June 4, 50 people attended a rally at the University of Wollongong. A
Silver lining
"Longer term, the SARS scare will be the biggest boost to sales of life insurance and related products that I can think of." — Maurice Greenberg, chief executive of insurer AIG, quoted in the May 26 International Herald Tribune.
BY VANNESSA HEARMAN
MELBOURNE — Fernando de Araujo heads the Democratic Party (PD) in East Timor, the second-largest party in the country's parliament. He also leads an eight-party parliamentary opposition to the Fretilin government. The
BY DOUG LORIMER
The French government mobilised 16,500 troops and police in and around the small resort town of Evian, on the southern bank of Lake Geneva, to suppress protests against the June 1-3 G8 summit.
While central Geneva, 42 kilometres
BY GAIL LORD
SYDNEY — After the death of sitting MP Jim Anderson, a by-election for that state seat of Londonderry was held on May 31. In a large field of candidates, the Greens doubled their previous vote in the seat.
Labor's replacement
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