BY JABULANE MATSEBULA
The Commonwealth went ahead with the Global 2003 Smart Partnership International Dialogue (SPID) conference in Swaziland on August 12-16. In deciding to hold the conference, the Commonwealth showed total disregard for the
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BY JEFF SHANTZ
TORONTO — It's high time Ontario's low-income workers received a raise. The minimum wage in Ontario has been frozen at C$6.85/hour ($6.40 for students and $5.95 for liquor servers) throughout the eight brutal years of Tory rule.
BY SARAH STEPHEN
According to refugee supporters who are in regular contact with asylum seekers in the Baxter detention centre, on August 22 there were a number of suicide attempts following news that more than a dozen Iranian asylum seekers faced
BY EMMA MURPHY
ADELAIDE — The August 13 City Messenger ran a front-page article that supported abandoning "dry zone" by-laws in the South Australian capital's city centre.
In the article, the Catholic Church's vicar-general Monsignor David
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BY TONY ILTIS
MELBOURNE — Residents of the western suburb of Sunshine who have been campaigning for nine years to have a local outdoor pool reopened have reacted with scepticism to the setting up of a 25-member advisory group to be headed by
BY MARCE CAMERON
BRISBANE — On August 19, Australian Manufacturing Workers Union organiser Maggie May came to work and found a fax on her chair from AMWU national secretary Doug Cameron telling her that she would no longer be working for the
BY MICHAEL MANSELL
There was a time when Gary Foley's call to hit the streets ran a chill down your back. When Paul Coe told us we were a sovereign people, not a minority, we all believed him. And when Marcia Langton addressed a rally against the
BY SUE BOLTON
MELBOURNE — The ACTU executive's choice of guest speakers at the peak union body's 2003 congress, held August 18-21, left a bitter taste in the mouths of many unionists.
On the second day, Qantas board "chairman" Margaret Jackson
BY ROHAN PEARCE
Despite the abject failure to find any weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq, Pentagon officials remain upbeat on the issue.
After testifying to the US Senate's armed services committee on July 31, US Army Major-General Keith
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