Liam Mitchell, Sydney
As the Christmas holiday period draws near, industrial disputes at Qantas threaten to escalate on three fronts as its management prepares to use Patrick Stevedores-style strike-breaking techniques to defeat a possible strike
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James Balowski, Jakarta
On October 20, former general Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono — popularly known as SBY — and business tycoon Jusuf Kalla were sworn in as Indonesia's first directly elected president and vice-president.
The Yudhoyono-Kalla
James Barrett, Johannesburg
The streets of Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban reverberated on October 16 with cries of "Free Free Palestine", "Isolate Apartheid Israel", "Boycott Israel" and "No to Bantustans", to mark the forthcoming visit of
Doug Lorimer
Strengthening fears that another attempt to retake the rebel city of Fallujah will occur straight after the November 2 US presidential election, on October 15 the US military imposed a siege on the city, stopping any of its 250,000
Joan Silk
SYDNEY — For 44 years Cuba has stood firm against a blockade enforced on it by successive US administrations. This blockade restricts travel to Cuba and denies the people access to medicines, food and other trade.
The Bush
The small African country of Benin ground to a halt on October 19, as public sector workers began a three-day strike for a 20-30% pay increase, better pensions and lower university fees. The strike, called by four out of the country's five trade
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The national minimum weekly wage is $467.40 gross per week (less than $25,000 per annum). Federal MPs and Senators receive a basic annual salary of $106,770 per year.
In addition, pollies receive an electorate allowance of between $27,300 and
Larry Hales, Denver
Two hundred and thirty students, activists and workers took to the street on October 9 to peacefully protest the celebration of Columbus Day and the portrayal of the man behind the genocide of Native American peoples as a hero
Two weeks after the hard drives of two Indymedia servers were seized from the London office of a US-owned web hosting company called Rackspace, British Home Office under-secretary Caroline Flint told parliament that "no UK law enforcement agencies
When an Aboriginal police liaison officer claimed in September that he had received death threats by police wishing to suppress information about the February 15 death of the Young Man from Kamilaroi, the case was thrown back into the spotlight. Ray
Zoe Kenny,
Melbourne
October 19, 40 people attended a public forum at
the Victorian Trades Hall organised by the Refugee Action
Collective (RAC) to discuss perspectives for the
refugee-rights movement after the re-election of the Coalition
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