BY KERRY VERNON
BRISBANE — Queensland's nurses have begun a state-wide industrial campaign after rejecting a state government offer that was one-third of what the Queensland Nurses Union (QNU) has sought. Gay Hawksworth, QNU state secretary, said
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and ain't i a woman: Too pretty for compensation
A West Australian widow, Teresa de Sales, whose husband drowned 12 years ago, has had the compensation originally awarded to her reduced by 20% on the grounds that she is young, healthy and
BY EVA CHENG
Officially, the recent string of visits by top US officials to India and Pakistan were to defuse the military stand-off between the two nuclear-armed countries. However, George Bush's regime is seizing on the confrontation to
BY GRAHAM WILLIAMS
MELBOURNE — Maintenance workers at the BHP factory in Hastings decided to return to work on June 14 after beating the "Big Australian". They had been on strike since May 21. The 280 workers, who were fighting BHP's attempts to
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,
SYDNEY The refugees'
rights campaign came to the western Sydney suburb of Fairfield on June
15. Around 30 people took part in a march organised by the western Sydney
Resistance branch to promote the June 23 National Refugee Week actions.
In
BY SARAH STEPHEN
Only 40 of the 327 Afghans on Nauru who have had their claims processed have been accepted as refugees. "The rest may have perfectly rational fears of famine, lawlessness and postwar devastation, but they don't count", declared the
BY LOUIS PROYECT
NEW YORK — Paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould died on May 20 of cancer at the age of 60. Not only was he the best known scientist in the United States, he was a committed progressive who served on the advisory board of the Brecht
BY EVA CHENG
Thousands rallied on June 13 in at least nine cities across India
and Pakistan to protest against the war drive and the threat of nuclear
devastation on the subcontinent.
How can arms traders be peace-brokers? was a
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
BY MELANIE SJOBERG
SYDNEY — The first Australian delegation allowed into the devastated Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank returned to Australia with emotional and harrowing stories. The delegation included union movement activists and a
BY SARAH STEPHEN
I participated in a work brigade in East Timor from May 13 to 26, organised by Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor/Action in Solidarity with Asia and the Pacific (ASIET/ASAP).
Seven people made the trip to Dili to
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