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  • Newsbriefs #2

    Dirty tricks on Grocon site On June 29, Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) steward Nazza Ottobre was moving the union office in Grocon's Eureka Towers construction site from the basement to the next level when he found a

  • Student occupation forces backdown

    Leigh Hughes, Adelaide Thirty years after the month-long occupation of Flinders University in 1974, students have used the tactic to force their administration to consult better over fee increases. Vice Chancellor Anne Edwards is planning to

  • Battle for housing

    Bill Bartlett, Hobart Members of the Acosamrel Salvadoran housing cooperative have been galvanised into action in the face of a threat to wind up the cooperative and hand its assets over to another organisation. The cooperative was formed in 1991

  • QR workers strike for better pay, conditions

    Alex Turner, Brisbane The 600 workers at Queensland Rail's Redbank workshops returned to work on February 3, after voting on February 1 to strike in protest at a pay offer from management. The offer undermined an enterprise bargaining agreement

  • Victorian teachers to stage one-day strike

    Mary Merkenich, Melbourne On March 3, Victorian public school teachers and their colleagues from the Catholic school system will stop work for one day. This collaborative action is unprecedented and is a sign of the desperation that teachers feel

  • Invasion Day focuses on stolen wages

    Adam Baker, Brisbane "Fifty-five million dollars are peanuts in a bowl", declared Lionel Fogarty, renowned Aboriginal poet and fighter for his people. Fogarty was speaking on the platform of Emma Miller Place, also known as Roma Street Forum, which

  • Whistleblower calls for new inquiry into Iraq 'intelligence'

    Sarah Stephen, Sydney "A journalist recently asked me whether the average Australian cared any more about the unravelling case for war", Andrew Wilkie told a Stop the War Coalition public meeting on February 15. "It's true that some have taken PM

  • Solidarity meetings with WA construction worker

    SYDNEY — Mal Peters from the WA CFMEU, who was fined $28,000 for participating in a strike on the Perth to Mandura rail line construction project, and his partner Bernadette, will speak about what led to the workers taking the strike action that

  • Death of a scaffolder

    John Tognolini, Sydney When 41-year-old scaffolder and father of three Paul Hughes fell eight stories to his death in Sydney's CBD on January 6, it put the spotlight not only on one of the building industry's most dangerous occupations but also

  • Iraq discussed

    ADELAIDE — The Socialist Alliance branch here held it first public meeting for the year, held in the Adelaide Resistance Centre, on February 11. Seventeen people listened to Dr David Lockwood, from the department of history at Flinders University,

  • Who can afford to give back $8000 a year?

    Graham Matthews, Sydney Workers employed at the Esselte stationary warehouse in Sydney's south-west suburb of Minto have been "offered" individual contracts (AWAs) that would give them a pay rise of $47, but cut 18 allowances they currently enjoy,

  • Correction

    In GLW issue #675 an article incorrectly referred to Ali Kazak as the head of the Palestinian delegation in Canberra. He no longer holds this position.From Green Left Weekly, July 26, 2006. Visit the Green Left Weekly home page.