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  • Loose cannons

    Dubious message "Ann and I will carry out this equivocal message to the world: Markets must be open." — George W. Bush, at the swearing-in ceremony for US agriculture secretary Ann Veneman, March 2, 2001. Free market system "We don't think

  • Action updates

    Geelong M1 sets up web site GEELONG — The collective organising a regional contingent for the Melbourne M1 blockade has established a web site of its own. Its designer, Camilo Jorquera, said the web site

  • Deregulation threatens airline safety

    As the Easter holiday break hit, Ansett Airlines was warned by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) that its license to operate could be cancelled due to continuing safety problems through missed maintenance schedules.

  • 'All left-wingers should rally around'

    Craig Johnston, the militant leader of Victoria's Australian Manufacturing Workers Union, has been one of the Socialist Alliance's strongest backers since the announcement of its formation. Here is an abridged version of his speech to the

  • WA bus drivers launch fight back

    PERTH — Metropolitan bus drivers here are fighting back against years of low pay and worsening conditions. At an April 18 stop-work meeting, drivers from three bus companies — Perth Bus, Path Transit and Southern Coast Transit

  • Mobil plans union-busting tactics

    ADELAIDE — An attempt to sack maintenance workers employed at Mobil's Port Stanvac plant in South Australia was exposed by the Australian on April 12. Mobil is the Australian subsidiary of US-owned oil giant ExxonMobil. According

  • Socialist Alliance 'will make a mark'

    BY JORGE JORQUERA  MELBOURNE — “It is exciting to hear of the newly established Socialist Alliance. Australia has for some time now had a great need for a left alliance. The Labor Party appears to have moved to the right, finding itself

  • 'War criminal' running Israel

    BY JO BROWN & ROB MILLER MELBOURNE — The international community had to recognise that a war criminal was now prime minister of Israel and act accordingly, a March 30 public meeting here in support of Palestinian freedom has been told. Academic

  • Opposition grows to Southwood woodchip mill

    HOBART — Forestry Tasmania's planned Southwood Resources woodchip mill in the Huon valley is under intense pressure from increased public opposition. This was reflected most strongly in a rally here of thousands of people on

  • Correction

    Due to a sub-editing error, the sentence in the article “Refugee kept eight months in solitary” by Ben Collins (GLW #443) read: “While the agreement between the government and Australasian Correctional Management, which runs the centre,

  • QUT creatively cuts arts faculty

    BY RA GREEN & SIMON BUTLER BRISBANE — In a bid to access an extra $15 million of state government funding, the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) has decided to abolish its arts faculty and replace it with a new faculty called "creative

  • Action updates

    Building workers walk off over safety BRISBANE — Building workers walked off 100 major construction sites in south-east Queensland on April 4 in response to the death of a worker. Unions demanded a safety audit of all building projects