BY SUE BULL
MELBOURNE Tony Abbott, federal workplace relations minister, used
parliamentary privilege on May 29 to savagely attack the Australian Manufacturing
Workers Union and, in particular, Craig Johnston, the secretary of the
495
BY ROHAN PEARCE
Media-monitoring group Electronic Intifada has released a report by Nigel Parry into media coverage of the April 2-May 10 siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, during which seven Palestinians were killed, and
BY SUE BULL
MELBOURNE Craig Johnston, the secretary of the Victorian branch of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU), may be under attack, but along with the rest of the militant union branch's Workers First leadership, he is
Museworthy: Tampa: For the DrowningWho Were Watched
The air's carcass lieson the earth's bright back.
A newborn baby has been introducedto waterand waggles its headlike an ocean bird.
This is the day coming after the oneon which we gave
BY ALLEN JENNINGS
The May 26 election of Alvaro Uribe Velez as Colombia's next president represents a watershed in both Colombia's and the United States' approach to the country's spiralling discontent and four decades of armed insurgency.
The
BY DAVE RILEY
At the heart of the current medical insurance crisis is the private
health-care system. Without specialist doctors on call and guaranteed liability
coverage, private health care much praised by successive Labor and Coalition
Final frontier
"Several big Japanese builders have set up divisions for moon-based-construction research. Shimizu Construction Corp, for instance, has been studying plans for lunar tennis courts and golf courses." — Wall Street Journal, May 24.
BY JOE CRAIG
DUBLIN In late March, Sinn Fein launched its campaign for the May
17 Irish general election with a rally in Dublin's Gresham Hotel, at the
same time as the Irish Labour Party was holding its conference.
While Sinn Fein was keen
BY KAMALA EMANUEL
HOBART Four hundred nurses rallied on the Parliament House lawns
on May 25 to protest the failure of the state Labor government to live
up to an enterprise bargaining agreement (EBA) under which all nurses with
REVIEW BY IGGY KIM
Spinning Into ButterWritten by Rebecca GilmanDirected by Adam CookEnsemble Theatre, SydneyMay 17-June 29
US playwright Rebecca Gilman's feted work, Spinning Into Butter, is an unabashed self-examination of racial prejudice in
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