Strict interpretation
You'll notice that I never said she should resign, Democrats Senator
Andrew Murray told a July 30 press conference, a day after explaining that
Natasha Stott Despoja's leadership of the party was an
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BY SIMON WOOD
WOOLGOOLGA It seems hardly a day goes by now without somebody, from ordinary people to the United Nations, criticising the Coalition government's prejudiced and inhumane mandatory detention policy.
At 9am on July 26,
BY SHANE BENTLEY
SYDNEY Members of the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) are again protesting against shipping company attempts to reflag Australian crewed and flagged ships as "flag of convenience" vessels with exploited Third World crews.
US President George Bush is preparing for a new war on Iraq using the pretext
that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is threatening the world with weapons
of mass destruction.
Pentagon papers leaked on July 4 reveal plans for an assault on
BY SUE BOLTON
As the royal
commission into the building industry continues its assault on militants
in the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union, state attacks on
the Victorian branch of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union
In the space of a week, the federal government shocked the world by voting against an optional protocol to the United Nations convention against torture, then aggressively dismissed a UN report which was highly critical of Australia's policy of
Among the ancient rocks I pace,Scattered through the friendlyStringybarks, and gaping waterhole,Which feeds the parched red clay.
And gazing on antipodean stone,I shield my eyes from glaringWinter, solstice sun.
Then in a flash I am
The NavigatorsDirected by Ken LoachWritten by Rob DawberScreening in most major cities from August 8
REVIEW BY JANET BURSTALL
Ken Loach's latest film, The Navigators, depicts the impact of privatisation on a group of former British Rail workers.
BY CHRIS CAIN
Many rank-and-file trade unionists, officials and others are now turning their backs on Labor, because they see that much of that party is no better than the Liberals. And I have to say quite honestly that they wouldn't be far wrong.
BY ROHAN PEARCE
On July 23, a US-supplied Israeli F-16 warplane dropped a 1000-kilogram bomb on an apartment block in Gaza City. The bomb killed 15 civilians, including nine children along with Hamas leader Saleh Shehade. Eleven of those killed
BY NATASHA IZATT
LONDON On July 17, 750,000 local government workers across England, Wales and Northern Ireland went on strike in support of a pay increase. Between 70% and 80% of union members participated.
Teachers aides, caretakers,
BY PAUL OBOOHOV
CANBERRA Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR)
staff voted July 19 by more than 90% to reject a management draft industrial
agreement.
The draft included a pay rise of only 6.5% over two years (low by
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