REVIEW BY SARAH STEPHENÂ
Secret Ballot
Written and directed by Babak Payami
Starring Nassim Abdi
and Cyrus Ab
Distributed by Celluloid Dreams (< info@celluloid-dreams.com>)
Screened at the
49th Sydney Film Festival
499
Bradbury film
In seeing David Bradbury's new documentary film Fond Memories of Cuba on opening night, I was thoroughly disappointed with its simplistic and muddled portrayal of Cuba from such a renowned left-wing filmmaker.
To a less informed
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Electrical Trades Union and Australian Workers Union members and contractors
from the joint Alcoa and Kaal aluminium smelter and rolling operations
at Point
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the most prominent labour movement figure in Indonesia, were going to speak
on the
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The announcement was a response to the July 1 suspension of
More than 400 Afghans protested outside the United Nations compound
in Kabul on July 4, according to the BBC. The demonstration was against
the July 1 US bombing raid in the country's south-west that slaughtered
at least 40 people, possibly
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hospital from a near-fatal suicide attempt inside Woomera detention centre,
has sent a message to well-wishers promising that she will continue to
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AMWU members defend their union
GEELONG — On June 28, a meeting of 150 Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) members from Alcoa's Port Henry aluminium smelter discussed the state and federal governments' attacks on the leadership of
[This is a model motion unionists can move in their union to support the AMWU leaders under attack.]
That [workers/unionists from this workplace/meeting] note the role played by the leadership of the Victorian branch of the Australian Manufacturing
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Could have been the wedding cake
"We are aware of reports of civilian casualties, but don't know if casualties were caused as a result of the bomb." — Pentagon spokesperson Lieutenant Comm- ander Jeff Davis, commenting on the US military's July
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