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  • Iemma government sees red

    Rachel Evans, Sydney The NSW Labor government is set to run an operating deficit of $696 million over the coming year following the federal government's June 2 decision to pull the plug on the Snowy Hydro sale. Premier Morris Iemma will be going

  • Worker paralysed, boss fined $40,000

    Barry Healy, Perth A Perth demolition company has been fined just $40,000 in the case of an industrial accident that left a young worker permanently paralysed. In November 2003, a director of Murphy Demolition cut a safety pin off a "quick hitch"

  • Saying 'no' to racism

    Tony Iltis, Melbourne One hundred and twenty people rallied in the Footscray Mall around the slogans "Stand up for multicultural communities!" and "Howard's racism will not divide us: say no to attacks on Muslims!". The May 20 rally, organised by

  • Ethnic council criticises IR laws

    The federal government's proposed IR laws will adversely affect ethnic workers and immigrants, many of whom are employed in low-skilled, low-paid jobs, according to the NSW Ethnic Communities Council (ECC). In a statement issued on November 2, the

  • Vigil for a free Palestine

    SYDNEY — On May 14, 50 people attended a "Vigil for a Free Palestine" at Circular Quay, one day before the 48th anniversary of the beginning of Al Nakba (The Catastrophe), when 750,000 Palestinians were driven from their homeland by Zionist

  • Victory for Drop the Charges campaign

    Sarah Stephen Following a coordinated series of raids by Australian Federal Police and immigration department (DIMIA) officers on houses in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane last December 1, four refugee supporters in Sydney were charged with helping

  • Loose Cannons

    No fooling her "Iran is not Iraq." — NeoCondoleezza Rice, April 1. Globalisation "[Former Wimbledon champion Boris] Becker wants to live the rest of his life in the shadow of the Sahyadri Hills, an oasis of greenery in the dust of the Indian

  • Vic government attacks building unions

    MELBOURNE — The Victorian state government has begun a vilification campaign against the deregistered Builders Labourers Federation because of the recent appointment of three Victorian BLF members as organisers within the state

  • November anti-war protests planned

    Tim Doughney The next major anti-war protests, to be held on November 5 and 6 around Australia, will focus on the main aspects of the "war on terror", calling for the immediate withdrawal of foreign troops from Iraq, and also an end to the attacks

  • Unionists rally against Work Choices

    Dave Riley, Brisbane On April 7, 2000 trade unionists gathered in the Roma Street Forum to protest against the Howard government's Work Choices laws and to hear a report from the Light the Fuse workers' rights tour that had been organised by the

  • Fighting for a more democratic CPSU

    Simon Butler, Newcastle After weeks of campaigning to prevent their national officials from abruptly closing the Newcastle office of the Community and Public Sector Union, rank-and-file members of the CPSU in the Hunter have succeeded in forcing a

  • ALP forum on public health

    SYDNEY — Anthony Albanese, the Labor MP for the federal electorate of Grayndler, opened a forum on public health care at Marrickville Town Hall on October 18. Attended by 260 people, the forum was also addressed by shadow health minister Julia