BY SARAH STEPHEN
Since the MV
Tampa incident one year ago, a broad and vibrant protest movement
has developed. It is matched by no other social movement in recent years.
The movement has swelled well beyond the ranks of those who have
505
BY NICOLE HOYE
BRISBANE Construction of Steritech's food irradiation facility
at Narangba has resumed after police broke a protest picket on August 13.
No work had been done at the site since 200 people picketed on August 7.
The
BY PETER SYKES
[Former Queensland Democrats state leader Peter Sykes knows all about compliance committees and getting the boot for speaking his mind. Now a veteran of the Australian Greens, he follows up his April 1998 GLW article which asked,
BY ANDREW HALL
CANBERRA The 30-year-old symbol of the fight for Indigenous justice, the Aboriginal Tent Embassy on the lawns in front of Old Parliament House, is facing serious threats of removal.
This follows hard on the heels of the July
BY VIRGINIA BROWN
PERTH "Today, men are the only standing target. It is no longer permissible to take potshots at women. A few decades of lobbying by women activists has taken care of that. But men are still fair game for television
BY SUE BULL
MELBOURNE As the Royal Commission into the Building and Construction Industry began sitting again in Melbourne, a union leader has been threatened with imprisonment, a former union leader has condemned union activities and 5000
The human cost of the 'Pacific solution'
On August 26, 2001, 433 asylum seekers aboard an Indonesian fishing
boat, the KM Palapa 1, overloaded and sinking, were rescued by the
Norwegian freighter, MV Tampa. On August 27, the Howard
BY SIMON MILLAR
MELBOURNE On August
12, Denis Matson, one of the two national industrial officers for the printing
division of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union was summarily sacked
by AMWU national secretary Doug Cameron, and
BY TERRICA STRUDWICK
South African-based fast food chain Nando's has come under fire for a radio advertisement that mocks the desperate situation refugees face in Australian detention centres.
The ad, which was pulled after a deluge of
LAGOS One woman was shot dead on August 8 in Nigeria's southern oil
town of Warri when groups of women protesters besieged the premises of
oil transnationals Royal-Dutch Shell and ChevronTexaco, witnesses said.
They said two groups of
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