BY MARCEL CAMERON
BRISBANE — Maintenance workers at the Caltex oil refinery won an important victory against their employer, Transfield Services, on May 21 after nine weeks of industrial action.
The dispute centred on the expiry date for the
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BY JIM McILROY
BRISBANE — Protesters picketed the initial stage of construction of the food irradiation plant at Narangba on June 13, forcing four trucks to turn back. The protesters have vowed to continue to picket the site, north of the city,
Museworthy: Our Face
I leave peace for thosewho find their way homeand love for the dogswho know how to use it
For today the continentsare cracking from the seasand all times are rushingtoward the zenith of understanding
This is how cells
CMG answers strike with lock-out
ROCKHAMPTON — Workers at Consolidated Meat Group's Lakes Creek plant have been on strike since June 3. The workers are attempting to win back wages and conditions stripped from them after the arbitration
BY MALIK MIAH
SAN FRANCISCO — Here he goes again. University of California Regent Ward Connerly, a prominent African-American conservative and former benefactor of affirmative action programs, has submitted nearly one million voter signatures to
BY NICK BRAUN
The right-wing majority on the executive of the 283,000-strong Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) has declared the election of Socialist Alliance supporter Mark Serwotka as PCS general secretary "invalid" and that the
BY ALISON DELLIT
The federal government's repressive "anti-terror" bills are moving closer to being passed. On June 4, attorney-general Daryl Williams announced that the government had finalised its amendments to the main package, accepting most of
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The honourable Philip Ruddock, the Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, has described detainees hurting themselves when some people from the community try to access the detention centre. This is absolutely untrue.
The
GUJARAT - The Indian government's Narmada Control Authority (NCA) on May 17 arbitrarily decided to raise the height of the controversial Sardar Sarovar Dam on the Narmada River, in the western Indian state of Gujarat, from 90 to 95 metres. This will
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
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
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