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Health workers prepare 24-hour strike

BY BILL MASON BRISBANE — Public hospitals in Queensland face another 24-hour strike within weeks unless the state government boosts its wages offer to non-nursing staff. Union delegates for Queensland Health employees on August 15 resolved to

NIGERIA: Protests spread against ChevronTexaco

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

Progressives do well in NTEU election

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

Sydney Social Forum launched

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

'No gladiators there!'

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

A party rotting from within

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,

COVER STORY: A year since Tampa: support for refugees grows

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

Cameron sics lawyers on to GLW

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

Loose cannons

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.

Building unionist threatened with jail

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

Tent embassy under assault

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

Refugee embassy launched

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