BY SUE BULL
MELBOURNE — The federal Coalition government is rolling out its big guns to attack Victoria's militant trade unionists. In the latest outburst, immigration minister Philip Ruddock slammed the Victorian branch of the Construction,
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BY NICK EVERETT
SYDNEY — Speaking to an overflow audience of 250 people at the Newtown Neighbourhood Centre on June 2, writer, film-maker and left activist Tariq Ali analysed the key issues in world politics after September 11.
The meeting,
CMG answers strike with lock-out
ROCKHAMPTON — Workers at Consolidated Meat Group's Lakes Creek plant have been on strike since June 3. The workers are attempting to win back wages and conditions stripped from them after the arbitration
World Refugee Day on June 20 is an opportunity to reflect on how much progress the refugees' rights movement in Australia has made in a relatively short period. The last six months of organising, which includes the consolidation of a huge movement
BY MICHELLE BREAR
SUVA, Fiji — Since the Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific (NFIP) movement's formation in 1975, the campaign for self-determination for Pacific island nations under colonial rule has been central to its work, and that of its
Hundreds of angry
demonstrators rallied on June 8 outside the British Prime Minster Tony
Blair's residence at 10 Downing Street, London, to protest against British
arms sales to India and Pakistan and oppose war between the two countries.
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The honourable Philip Ruddock, the Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, has described detainees hurting themselves when some people from the community try to access the detention centre. This is absolutely untrue.
The
Behind the Tears ... Triumphant Voices: East Timor, a Photographic JourneyPhotographs by Ross Bird, David Dare Parker and Stephen DupontCurated by Emmanuel SantosPost Master Gallery, Australia Post House, corner Exhibition and La Trobe streets,
BY DICK NICHOLS
In the April 21 first round of France's presidential elections, 2.84 million people (10.44%) voted for far-left candidates, chiefly Lutte Ouvriere (LO) and the Revolutionary Communist League (LCR). On June 9, in the first round of
BY SARAH PEART
GLASGOW — In the same week that the Scottish Parliament celebrated its first 1000 days of existence on March 26, its members voted themselves a 13.5% wage increase, placing MSPs in the top 5% of income earners in Scotland. The sole
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