Pip Hinman
On January 14, the Aceh high court upheld the verdict of a lower court which last year convicted five Free Aceh Movement (GAM) negotiators of treason and terrorism and sentenced them to long prison terms. The maximum penalty is death.
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Alison Dellit, Sydney
"I have real concerns that this report will be used to justify a round of cost-cutting and attacks on workers' rights, rather than a genuine investment in rail safety", Rail, Tram and Bus Union (RTBU) NSW secretary Nick
Chris Latham, Perth
Train drivers on Perth's metropolitan rail-lines stopped work for four hours on January 11 to discuss the Rail, Tram and Bus Union's campaign for a new enterprise agreement. RTBU rail division secretary Bob Christison told Green
Garry Walters
On December 1, 2003, I was treated by former Australian Railways Union shunters' committee fellow activist Des Crichton to a trip from Echuca to North Melbourne, for the longstanding annual reunion of shunters.
The shunters, other
Leslie Feinberg
An inordinate amount of imperialist media attention on Afghanistan has focused on the wording of a new constitution approved by the Loya Jirga, or grand assembly. Like a huckster at a carnival shell game, the more the big-money
Robert Darcy, Perth
Wharfies at P&O's Fremantle container terminal walked off the job for 12 hours on January 9 following the serious injury to a worker the previous evening on the ship P&O Nedlloyd Yarra Valley.
The injured worker who was
REVIEW BY LOUIS PROYECT
Goodbye Lenin!Directed by Wolfgang BeckerWritten by Wolfgang Becker and Bernd LichtenbergWith Daniel Bruhl, Kathrin Sass, Maria Simon, Chulpan Khamatova, Florian Lukas and Alexander BeyerScreening at Dendy cinemas, Sydney;
The University of WA held two public meetings with radical journalist John Pilger on January 12 and 13. Despite limited publicity, the first night attracted 900 people while the second 350, with hundreds of people turned away.
Pilger discussed the
Allegations by asylum seekers of the use of cattle prods by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) when boarding refugee boats, especially at the time of the children overboard scandal prior to the 2001 federal election, have again surfaced.
In an
Peter Boyle
We have become accustomed to the International Monetary Fund warning Third World governments about their foreign debt levels. The IMF doing the same to the world's richest and most powerful government, however, is a bit unusual.
On
Jim McIlroy, Brisbane
A snap Queensland election is underway. On January 13, Labor Premier Peter Beattie called the election for February 7, in a summer-holiday bid to take the heat out of the government's damaging problems over the abuse of foster
Norm Dixon
On January 4, while addressing British troops in Basra, British Prime Minister Tony Blair attempted to defend his government's participation in the US-led war against Iraq. In an embarrassing Freudian slip, Blair referred to "weapons of
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