BY MARGARITA WINDISCH
MELBOURNE — On October 27, 10,000 construction industry workers marched through the city centre to protest against the first prosecution of a unionist by the Howard government's building industry task force.
In a powerful
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BY RUTH RATCLIFFE
DARWIN — On October 31, members of the Darwin Homebirth Group rallied to demand the provision of homebirth midwife services as part of the Northern Territory public hospital system.
In July, NT health minister Jane Aagaard
BY KERRYN WILLIAMS
CANBERRA — Parliament House was beset by protesters again on October 27. The 100 Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) members chanted "What do we want? Aussie jobs!" while marching up the hill to join a 250-strong
The federal Coalition government's $1 billion plan to "save" Medicare has been widely exposed as a wolf in sheep's clothing — a set of changes that would radically change Medicare from providing universal health care to little more than a safety
BY MAURICE FARRELL
SYDNEY — On October 27, a Hornsby Local Court magistrate agreed with protest organisers that the police acted illegally on July 19 in blocking off access to the front of the home of the then immigration minister, Philip
Greens' protest
Green Left Weekly's editorial (#559) correctly argued that "it wasn't hard for the Greens to show up the ALP" and that "the Greens could have gone a bit further by actively helping to build the demonstrations".
Further the
BY MARCUS GREVILLE
LONDON — On October 29, at a crammed public meeting called by the Stop the War Coalition, the call was made for the creation of a new united party to challenge the British Labour Party in the 2004 London Assembly and European
BY ADELE OLIVERI
ROME — On October 24, more than 10 million workers stopped work and more than 1 million took to the streets across Italy in a four-hour general strike. Called by the country's three main union federations, the strike was in
BY PETER BOYLE
At its annual general meeting on October 30, Kerry and James Packer's PBL company announced it had paid $3.4 billion in bonuses to its executives. But while the greedy scum that run PBL stack away their coins, other Australians are
BY SARAH STEPHEN
John Howard must be proud of NSW Labor Premier Bob Carr, though he might never admit it. Howard and Carr see eye to eye on so many issues, most particularly the supposed imminent threat of terrorism in Australia and the calculated
BY PAUL BENEDEK
SYDNEY — More than 10,000 unionists, mostly members of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU), marched from the Sydney Town Hall to NSW parliament on October 27 to demand tough industrial manslaughter laws to
BY PAUL BENEDEK
SYDNEY — Former nuclear physicist and social justice campaigner Dr Vandana Shiva was the guest presenter for a forum at Sydney University on October 20, entitled "Beyond Corporate Globalisation, towards Earth Democracy".
Shiva,
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