BY ANDREW FERGUSON
Sam Wainwright's
article on “illegals” (GLW #513) was great in theory but demonstrated
a lack of understanding of the dynamics of contracting.
Employers have historically used many strategies to undermine union
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BY SARAH STEPHEN
Prime Minister John Howard has been at pains to argue that the ASIO raids on Indonesian Muslims in recent weeks were not targeting Indonesians, nor Muslims, resident in Australia. He was even more affronted by the allegation that
BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS
MELBOURNE —
On November 4, Victorian Premier Steve Bracks called an early state election
for November 30, the earliest date that an election could constitutionally
be called.
Bracks, whose government rules with the
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BY EVA CHENG
On November 4, Beijing removed a seven-year ban on foreigners' purchase of Chinese state enterprise shares listed on stock exchanges, opening the way for the privatisation of an estimated US$300 billion of state assets — and more
BY CHRIS FLOYD
MOSCOW — I stand foursquare with Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defense, when he warns that there will be more terrorist attacks against the American people and civilisation at large. We know, as does Rumsfeld, that this
BY JAMES CAULFIELD
CANBERRA — The growth of anti-war sentiment in the Australian Capital Territory was clear at the November 3 rally in Garema Place to oppose a US invasion of Iraq.
Seven hundred people attended the protest rally, which was
BY EMMA CLANCY
PERTH — Around 250 people attended a rally outside Perth's Parliament House on November 9 to protest against the Coalition government's recent attacks on Islamic Australians.
Called by the Islamic Council of WA, the demonstration
Nobody's safe from ASIO
"No country is absolutely safe for anybody but I just want to say to Australians of the Muslim faith, you are as protected and important part of our country as anyone else." — Prime Menzies John Howard, November 7.
Only
Seventy protesters marched
down the streets of Leichhardt in opposition to war and racism on November
8. The protest was organised by the Port Jackson branch of the Socialist
Alliance.
Photo by Liam Mitchell.
From Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly,
BY AHMED NIMER
RAMALLAH — The resignation of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on November 5 means that elections will be held within 90 days, most likely next February. Sharon's resignation was forced by his inability to form a new
BY TIM STEWART
BRISBANE — In a last-ditch attempt to save Brisbane's inner-city
bushland from a private developer, activists led by the Gully Action Group
launched daily occupations and pickets of Highgate Hill Gully on October
21, when
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