BY JEREMY SMITH
BALLARAT — Progressives have done well in the July 10-22 National Tertiary Education Industry Union (NTEU) elections. In the poll for national office bearers, the incumbents were returned.
Carolyn Allport was returned as
505
BY SAM OLUKOYA
ABITEYE, Niger delta — Abiteye village lies in the heart of the Niger Delta region. American oil giant ChevronTexaco has a gas plant and an oil flow station here.
But for its oil installations, the company's premises could pass
BY NICK EVERETT
SYDNEY — On August 15, 80 people attended an information night at
the Tom Mann Theatre to learn more about the upcoming Sydney Social Forum,
which will be held on September 21-22 at the University of Technology,
Sydney. Two
BY JOE MCDONALD
I attended the [Western Australian] state conference of the ALP back in June. All in all, I've got to say that it was a pretty disillusioning experience — and it left me feeling frustrated as hell!
So I went back home and in
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
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 SUE BOLTON
At 2.30pm on
August 7, Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly received an email from Taylor &
Scott, lawyers acting on behalf of Australian Manufacturing Workers Union
national secretary Doug Cameron, in which they demanded that an article
War is peace
"I know all the war rhetoric, but it's all aimed at achieving peace." — George "The Crusader" Bush, August 7.
Having a bet each way
"The death tax is punitive on small business owners. It is very tough on farmers and ranchers.
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 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
LISMORE — Twenty
people attended the launch of a hunger strike and outdoor “refugee embassy”
on August 16, organised by the Refugee Action Collective. The hunger strike
will culminate in a public meeting with Howard Glen of Australians for
BY ZOE KENNY
MELBOURNE — Hundreds of people have turned out to hear Afghan refugee Riz Wakil's presentation, "Is it safe to return to Afghanistan?", during his visit here on August 12-14. The federal government claims war-torn Afghanistan is
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