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    Caltex workers strike for new agreement BRISBANE — On April 23, around 80 maintenance workers employed by sub-contractors at the Caltex oil refinery on the mouth of the Brisbane river, voted to continue their strike. The Australian

  • Meatworkers forced to accept pay cut

    ROCKHAMPTON — Meatworkers at Rockhampton's Consolidated Meat Group plant decided to return to work on April 27, after accepting an offer from CMG management that will reduce their weekly pay by up to $300 per week. The 1450

  • Show Mercy: support for refugees grows

    SYDNEY — Those are "the real queues", Julie McCrossin told the capacity crowd inside Sydney Town Hall on April 21, referring to the hundreds of refugee-rights supporters outside who'd been unable to get tickets for the

  • Ruddock grilled in London

    Federal immigration minister Philip Ruddock was no doubt looking forward to a pleasant speaking engagement at the April 22 Commonwealth Lawyers' Association function in London. A little awed by the illustrious status of the

  • Home births under threat

    HOBART — Insurance industry costs are threatening the delivery of home-birthing services across Tasmania. The Australian Nursing Federation ordinarily pays insurance fees for nurses as part of their membership fees. In early

  • Vigil for a free Palestine

    WOLLONGONG — Three-hundred people chanted "Free, Free Palestine" and "Shame, Shame USA" outside Wesley Church in the Wollongong mall in a "Vigil for a free Palestine" on April 27. It was the first pro-Palestine protest here since

  • Sharon's carnage: 'Part of the plan'

    SYDNEY — Speakers at a public meeting, held in Punchbowl in Sydney's south-west on April 23, described how the election of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in early 2001 brought a change in Israel's policy toward the Palestinian

  • Food workers offered a militant alternative

    SYDNEY — In the election for national secretary of the food and confectionary division of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU), workers have the opportunity to vote in favour of militant unionism. Assistant state

  • Refugee activists plan protest

    MELBOURNE — Refugee-rights protesters will hit the streets again on June 23, following a decision of the Refugee Action Collective-Victoria (RAC-Vic) to endorse a rally at 1pm that day outside the State Library in the city, around

  • Loose cannons

    Capitalist 'democracy' "Venezuelan democracy is no longer threatened by a would-be dictator [now that power has] passed ... to a respected business leader." — New York Times editorial, April 13, welcoming the installation of bosses' federation

  • Tribune copies wanted

    Green Left Weekly requires copies of Tribune, which was the weekly newspaper of the now-dissolved Communist Party of Australia, for its research library. Ddonatations or loans of early issues of Tribune, particularly, but not exclusively,

  • Protesters told Curtin 'worse than Woomera'

    CANBERRA — "I hope the staff inside have their pen and paper out because they have been seriously misinformed if they think that it is safe for Hazara refugees to return to Afghanistan", Refugee Action Collective (RAC) activist