Peter Simpson is Queensland state organiser for the Electrical Trades Union. He is currently involved in a campaign to win a new enterprise bargaining agreement that will push electrical workers' pay levels beyond the 13.5% pay increase achieved in
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Rodney Croome
In Baghdad, a young woman cowers by her window watching US troops and Iraqi fighters killing each other in the street, and she wonders why.
In Tasmania's ancient southern forests, helicopters firebomb another clearfelled, poisoned
Alex Miller
In a blockade of the Faslane naval base on the River Clyde, near Glasgow, organised by Trident Ploughshares and Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament on August 23, police arrested 63 protesters for attempting to prevent staff from
Max Lane
On August 21, Chuzaini, the radical left-wing Peoples Democratic Party's chairperson in the Javanese provincial town of Pekalongan, died in the local prison. PRD national chairperson Yusuf Lakaseng told the Indonesian National Human Rights
"The only thing that was on my mindWas just shoving my dick up this bitch's behindI looked at the girl and saidBabe, your ass ain't nothing but a base hitI'm going to have to get rid of your ass, yeah'Cause you're on my dick, dick, ding-a-ling."
Green Left Weekly's Vannessa Hearman spoke to Chip Henriss-Anderssen, a US-born, former Australian army officer who served with the UN's Interfet peacekeeping force in East Timor. He left the army in 2001 and subsequently joined the Greens. He is now
On August 2, the Traprock Peace Center's Sunny Miller interviewed Mordechai Vanunu, Israel's most famous whistleblower. Once a technician in Israel's power plants, Vanunu was kidnapped from Italy, convicted of treason in a secret trial and jailed for
QuidamCirque du SoleilSydney until October 10, Brisbane from November 4, Melbourne from March 4, Adelaide from May 12 and Perth from June 30.
Another one of Cirque du Soleil's delightful displays of acrobatic virtuosity and human harmony has
Sue Bolton, Melbourne
In a shock decision, three Appeals Court judges on August 27 overturned a County Court sentence and jailed former Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) Victorian state secretary Craig Johnston for taking part in a 2001
Cuba severs ties with Panama
On August 27, Cuban authorities announced that country had severed diplomatic ties with Panama, in reaction to outgoing Panamanian [resident Mireya Moscoso's pardon to four Cuban terrorists. The four had been convicted
A very dark cloud has enveloped the Earth,It is the engine of growth driven by greed,The creation of wealth, without concern for human need.
This wealth can be seen As digits on a computer screen,So when there is a virus or computer error,It
Rohan Pearce
"The smell of burnt flesh filled the air and blood smeared the deserted streets of Najaf's Old City after heavy US air strikes on Shiite militia positions around Iraq's revered Imam Ali shrine", reported Agence France-Presse on August
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