Max Lane
The Indonesian government's policy, announced last month, of giving a A$40 handout to people on an income of less than $25 per month as compensation for rises in fuel prices was only due to last for a few weeks, yet was supposed to help
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Hard Ground: Unions in the PilbaraBy Bradon EllemPilbara Mineworkers Union, 2004Available from the CFMEU mining and energy division, Sydney79 pages, $20 (pb)
REVIEW BY JIM MCILROY
As the federal Coalition government prepares to launch the biggest
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"This protest, with its terrific turn out, was a huge slap in the face to Howard. The solidarity among unions and with community organisations was inspiring, and on the basis of that solidarity Howard can be defeated.
"The turnout by WA Maritime
Sarah Stephen
Following the November 8 arrest of 18 men accused of "conspiring to do an act in preparation for a terrorist act", the media campaign against them has escalated to a witch-hunt.
Fairfax columnist Peter Hartcher declared in the
Doug Lorimer
In an opinion piece in the November 14 Sydney Morning Herald, federal Attorney General Philip Ruddock made an attempt to defend his government's new sedition laws. These have been included as a series of proposed amendments to the
On November 3, Friends of the Earth (FoE) responded to the Company Law Reform Bill, tabled in the House of Lords the previous day, by accusing the government of putting the interests of big business before those of people and the environment. FoE,
city of the long weary revolutioncity with much bread and no brickscity of dancing torsos and all night communistsof police who read and kiss on dutya place where children form conga linesin liberated palaceswhere millions chanted dancedalong the
Graham Matthews
"We're very, very pleased at the turn out. You don't get those sorts of numbers unless there is a really deep concern in the community about what the government is proposing to do", George Wright, ACTU policy and communications
Graham Matthews
Sun Xiaodi, a former miner at the Gansu No. 72 Uranium Mine in Chinese-controlled Tibet, remains "missing" over six months after he was abducted, following an interview with an AFP journalist in Beijing on April 28. Sun had
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