Liam Mitchell, Sydney
As the Christmas holiday period draws near, industrial disputes at Qantas threaten to escalate on three fronts as its management prepares to use Patrick Stevedores-style strike-breaking techniques to defeat a possible strike
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DARWIN — On October 22, 100 Charles Darwin University staff and students rallied in front of the Northern Territory parliament to protest CDU management's refusal to agree to union demands for a 15% wage increase. Further industrial action is
Walden Bello
The following are excerpts from a speech given at an international conference of anti-war and anti-globalisation campaigners held in Beirut in September. Bello is executive director of the Bangkok-based research organisation Focus on
The small African country of Benin ground to a halt on October 19, as public sector workers began a three-day strike for a 20-30% pay increase, better pensions and lower university fees. The strike, called by four out of the country's five trade
Sarah Stephen
Born in Fiji, Sereana Naikelekele has lived in Australia for almost 16 years. She is married to Maika Koroitamana and has five Australian-born children. Her eldest child, 12-year-old Sally, is a citizen. Her youngest, three-year-old
Andrew Martin, Brisbane
On October 19, the Retired Metalworkers Association of Queensland (RMAQ) debated a motion condemning the expulsion of Craig Johnston from the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU).
Although the strongly worded
When an Aboriginal police liaison officer claimed in September that he had received death threats by police wishing to suppress information about the February 15 death of the Young Man from Kamilaroi, the case was thrown back into the spotlight. Ray
PM John Howard designed the Pacific Solution to hold the people of the Tampa behind walls of razor wire. The Aboriginal political leadership now calls on the good people of this land to support the call from the refugee-rights movement to take a
Sue Bolton, Melbourne
Press reports on October 20 announced that the notorious Johnson Tiles factory in Melbourne's outer-eastern suburb of Bayswater will close in December and move offshore. One-hundred workers will lose their jobs when the
Kim Bullimore, West Bank
On September 29, Kim Lamberty and Chris Brown, international peace activists from the Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT), were attacked and severely beaten as they escorted Palestinian children from Tuba in the Hebron region
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