BY JAMES VASSILOPOULOS
CANBERRA — In a phone interview with Green Left Weekly on October 8, federal Labor MP Harry Quick, known for his strong opposition to the Iraq war, indicated he was thinking of wearing a white armband to protest the US
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BY ROHAN PEARCE
Considerable controversy exists on Wall Street over the awarding of contracts to US corporations by the Bush regime to "rebuild" Iraq. However, the controversy hasn't been that profit-hungry corporate vultures are seeking to make a
BY MATTHEW RICH
MELBOURNE — Twenty-five electricians at Smorgon Steel have ended their strike, in pursuit of a new enterprise agreement, after 227 days. The dispute is the longest in the history of the Electrical Trades Union (ETU), which covers
BY MATTHEW DIMMOCK
BANGKOK — Authorities are striving to make this city look its best for the October 20-21 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. The race is on to "sanitise" Bangkok's streets, or at least the ones that foreign
BY PETER BOYLE
An internet almanac of the 1960s, <http://www.milesago.com/Almanac/1966.htm#October>, records the Melbourne protests against the October 1966 visit of US President Lyndon Baines Johnson with this brief entry:
"A[n]
BY STEVE ELLIOT DORE
SYDNEY — NSW Labor Premier Bob Carr told the annual NSW Labor Party conference on October 5 that the NSW government does not plan to renew the leases for Patrick Stevedores' Darling Harbour and P&O's White Bay and Glebe
BY BRONWYN POWELL
SYDNEY — In protest against federal government intervention into their enterprise bargaining agreement (EBA), Sydney University staff held a 24-hour strike on October 7. Four-hundred people picketed the entrances to the campus
BY JOHN NEBAUER
ADELAIDE — Women gathered in the Women's Pioneer Memorial Gardens on October 8 to launch this year's poster for the annual Reclaim the Night march, to be held on October 31.
Local artist and Reclaim the Night collective member
BY SUE BOLTON
MELBOURNE — After taking strike action for the first time in more than 10 years, 500 workers employed by the Swedish-owned auto components company Autoliv have won major concessions from the company.
The mostly female and mostly
BY KAMALA EMANUEL
LAUNCESTON — On October 1, the Tasmanian Industrial Commission reinstated 17 workers who had been locked out of the Blue Ribbon meatworks for 182 days and ordered they be paid for wages lost as a result of the lockout.
In her
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