Liam Mitchell
Tens of thousands of trade unionists participated in rallies in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane on September 15 to demand that the James Hardie company, which dominated the Australian market for asbestos products throughout the 20th
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Doug Lorimer & Alison Dellit
With his mother at his side, and a picture of his identical twin brother, who was killed in Iraq, held above him, Ivan Medina, a US Army soldier, said: "We must bring our troops home now. Not tomorrow. Not in six years.
Jon Lamb, Darwin
After 14 months of drawn-out negotiations with Charles Darwin University management over pay and conditions, unions covering academic and general staff are taking action to improve the lot of their members. On September 15, staff
Doug Lorimer
"Labour is facing a Muslim backlash over Iraq with thousands of traditional supporters defecting to the anti-war Respect party", the September 11 London Daily Mirror reported, following the shock result of a local council by-election
Sarah Stephen
On September 13, interpreters and officers from the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (DIMIA) made threats of forced deportation to asylum seekers being detained on Nauru who don't agree to return
Abetz dodges lie-detector test
HOBART — Members of the Socialist Alliance gathered outside Liberal Senator Eric Abetz's office on September 15 to challenge him to take a 'lie detector' test. Abetz was unavailable, so Liberal Party policies
More unions and campaign groups have endorsed the national "End the lies" protests scheduled for the October 2-3 weekend, including the Western Australian branch of the Maritime Union of Australia. Following are some messages of support for the
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Refugees on hunger strike
ADELAIDE — On September 14, asylum seekers from Sri Lanka, including some Tamils, being held in the Baxter Detention Centre began a protest on the third anniversary of their controversial arrival in Australia's
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Meat workers win after long battle
LAUNCESTON — On September 15, an 18-month industrial dispute came to an end at Blue Ribbon's plant in St Leonards. Seventeen workers received $500,000 in wages owed, which had accumulated since the
James Hardie
Just read the write up on "James Hardie: Murder by another name" (GLW #598) and want to thank you for writing something on this as my father passed away in June 2002 from mesothelioma. This company, I feel, murdered my father. Thanks
Doug Lorimer
In his opening remarks to the meeting of the board of governors of the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna on September 13, IAEA director-general Mohammed ElBaradei said that Iran had made "some progress" in accounting
More than 2000 Australians die annually due to workplace accidents and disease.
Each day, 50 young workers suffer work-related injuries, five of them leading to permanent incapacity.
A worker is injured seriously enough to lodge a workers'
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