GREAT BARRIER REEF — This is a recent photograph of live bombing at Raymond Island in the mouth of Shoalwater Bay, inside the Great Barrier Reef marine national park. Raymond Island has been a regular target for ship-to-shore bombardments and
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I logged on to the Green Left Weekly website today for the first time. It was my husband who suggested I look at it.
I live in Adelaide but am English. I lived for 10 years in London before leaving in May 2003 to move here, as
The Age of Commodity: Water Privatisation in Southern AfricaEdited by David A. McDonald and Greg RuitersEarthscan, 2005303 pages, $55 (pb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
One billion people in the world lack access to safe drinking water and two billion
Kathy Newnam, Darwin
The campaign against the federal government's planned nuclear dump in the Northern Territory is gathering pace.
Anti-nuclear campaigners in Darwin have begun to organise a coalition against the dump and are planning a public
No issue in this country is more pressing than the Coalition's onslaught on the very existence of trade unions. The Howard government's intent goes far beyond routine union-bashing.
The goal now is, effectively, to abolish them. Howard's "final
Sue Bull, Geelong
As the campaign against PM John Howard's industrial relations legislation hots up, 88 women unionists in Geelong met over dinner to discuss the fight ahead.
The July 21 dinner brought together women from all sections of the
The Moroccan government continues to clamp down on dissent in Western Sahara, the country it occupies, following a pro-independence upsurge in protest in May-June. On July 21, five Saharawi human rights workers were arrested. All of the men have been
Fiona Alcock, Sydney
On July 20, two children — 12-year-old Ian Hwang and his six-year-old sister Janey — were released with their mother, Young Lee, from the Villawood immigration detention centre after the immigration department (DIMIA)
Women workers on average still earn lower wages than male workers, and will be even worse off under the federal Coalition government's new industrial relations "reforms".
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics' Australian Social Trends
Lynda Hansen & Jim McIlroy, Brisbane
"We need unity of all the elements of the campaign against Howard's anti-union laws: publicity, community alliances and industrial action", Sue Bolton, the Socialist Alliance's national trade union work
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