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Are the Iraqi insurgents 'terrorists'?

Doug Lorimer "What we're seeing in Iraq is an attempted power grab by extremists and terrorists", US President George Bush declared at an April 16 White House press briefing. The claim that Iraqis who are engaged in armed resistance to the US-led

New Greens mayor's goal is to 'build community confidence'

@intro2 = In the March 27 NSW local government elections Byron Shire elected the state's first Greens mayor. Tom Flanagan interviewed mayor-elect Jan Barham for Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly on April 17. How long have you been on council and how did you get

Student and staff solidarity in the face of cuts

@intro2 = As students campaign against proposals to make higher education more expensive and more polarised, many university workers are arguing for their union to actively support the protests. RMIT staff member LISA FARRANCE, a member of the

Victorian nurses impose hospital bans

Sue Bolton, Melbourne Faced with intransigence from Victorian Premier Steve Bracks' Labor government, an April 20 mass meeting of public hospital nurses voted to reject the government's "offer" to remove previously won working conditions. The

New compo laws bad for workers

Dave Andrews, Fremantle The state ALP government is set to introduce long-awaited reforms to WA's workers' compensation laws in May. The reforms, outlined in a discussion paper Restoring Fairness, Balance and Certainty: Workers Compensation Reforms