BY STUART MARTIN
MELBOURNE — After five months on strike, the Electrical Trades Union (ETU) maintenance workers at Smorgon Steel in Laverton are still fighting to win the 36-hour work week and better pay and working conditions.
Despite the
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BY NICK EVERETT
SYDNEY - On August 18, a special meeting of the Walk Against the War Coalition, which organised the 500,000-strong anti-war rally on February 16, will be held to debate a proposition from former Labor senator Bruce Childs and
Action needed to stop nuclear threat
ADELAIDE — Eighty people attended a meeting on August 3 to mark the anniversary of the US atom-bombing of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
The meeting was addressed by David Palmer,
BY MALIK MIAH
SAN FRANCISCO — In a stunning victory for mechanics and related employees at United Airlines, on July 14 the Aircraft Mechanics' Fraternal Association (AMFA) replaced the International Association of Machinists (IAM) as their union.
MELBOURNE — What could top being Australia's official musical representative at East Timor's massive independence concert in May last year? The members of the seven-piece funk, ska and reggae band the Dili Allstars have the answer: being asked to
Students protest fee hike
SYDNEY — On August 5, 100 students protested against the Sydney University Senate's decision last month to approve a 30% across-the-board tuition fee increases, even though legislation that would allow such a fee hike
Terrorism
"Number of terrorism indictments brought since September 2001 by the US Attorney's Office in New Jersey : 62; Number of them brought against Middle Eastern students for paying others to take their English proficiency tests: 60." —
BY CHRIS PICKERING
WOLLONGONG — The New South Wales TAFE Teachers Association (TAFETA) and the Public Service Association (PSA) union representatives at Wollongong College of TAFE are leading a push to fight job cuts and increases in student
BY CAM WALKER
Landowners from mining-affected regions in Papua New Guinea met on August 6 and declared their opposition to public funding for new mining projects.
"Decades of mining have left a legacy of environmental degradation, and uprooted
"We're deeply concerned that the condition of the Liberian people is getting worse and worse", US President George Bush declared on July 25, announcing that he had ordered three ships, with 2500 marines aboard, to the war-ravaged west African
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