Global Circus
Roll up, roll up,
to the head of the queue.
Step up, step up,
come take a pew.
Gather round you clowns
applaud the acrobats
of global domination.
Cheer on the jugglers
Of world-wide manipulation.
Come to the
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BY NICK EVERETT
& SAM WAINWRIGHT
SYDNEY Since the Royal Commission into the Building and Construction
Industry began sitting in Sydney in early June, lurid employer claims of
Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU)
Big Sister?
Australia's Big Brother television show is unfortunately not
unique. In the last three years, 36 different versions of the show have
been aired around the world but while 50% of the contestants are always
women,
BY ROBYN MARSHALL
For the first time in many years Queensland nurses are taking industrial
action to demand conditions in the public hospitals change once and for
all.
A nurse employed at the Royal Brisbane Hospital (RBH), who wished
BY JESS MELVIN & BEN COURTICE
MELBOURNE Culminating a week of pro-refugee protest action, 100
high school students gathered outside Flinders Street Station on June 28,
despite bucketing rain.
People our age are the victims
BY REBECCA MECKELBURG
BRISBANE — The current dispute between the Queensland Nurses Union (QNU) and Premier Peter Beattie's Labor government (see article on page 2) is the latest in a series of industrial challenges facing the government since its
PALESTINE: Operation 'Determined Path' to massacre
BY ROHAN PEARCE
The expression peace process has become increasingly meaningless.
As Israel's murderous Operation Determined Path continues, and White
House pronouncements lose any
INDONESIA
The IMF: A globalising debate
BY MAX LANE
JAKARTA The debate between minister Kwik Kian Gie, who is in charge
of the National Economic Planning Board, and the other ministers in President
Megawati Sukarnoputri's cabinet
Student conference to welcome refugees
BY FEDERICO FUENTES
PERTH The collective organising the July 7-13 Students and Sustainability
(S&S) conference, to be held at Murdoch University, has declared that
it will give sanctuary to
BY LISA MACDONALD
More than 13,000 people joined refugees' rights protests around Australia
on the June 22-23 weekend. In many cities, these were the largest protests
for refugees yet. According to refugees' rights supporters, this is
BY ALISON DELLIT
On June 27, the Senate passed five of the six anti-terror bills,
in effect introducing a new terrorism offence into Australian law, broadening
treason offences to include any support for any group engaged in armed
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Fo, Rame and theatre of intervention
Dario Fo and Franca Rame: Harlequins of the RevolutionBy Joseph FarrellMethuen, 2001308 pp, $49.95 (hb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
Dario Fo and Franca Rame hit certain
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