Rohan Pearce
At a joint press conference with US President George Bush, the leader of the West's fabled "free world", in Washington DC on July 19, Australian PM John Howard emphatically stated: "I'm not going to try and put a time limit on our
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Grant Morgan, Auckland
Any worker in New Zealand, if she or he heard Australian PM John Howard's comment about people loving "labour market reform", would respond: "What a load of rubbish!"
New Zealand's Employment Contracts Act, passed by the
A planned three-week "border patrol" by the racist Minutemen movement appears to have ended less than 24 hours after it began, after the anti-immigrant vigilantes were outnumbered by peaceful protesters. The racists were organised by the Border
On July 14, the British Home Office announced that it was suspending the deportation of Zimbabwean asylum seekers pending the outcome of an August 4 High Court test case. Earlier on July 14, in another test case, an asylum seeker applied to the High
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I logged on to the Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly website today for the first time. It was my husband who suggested I look at it.
I live in Adelaide but am English. I lived for 10 years in London before leaving in May 2003 to move here, as
Kathy Newnam, Darwin
The campaign against the federal government's planned nuclear dump in the Northern Territory is gathering pace.
Anti-nuclear campaigners in Darwin have begun to organise a coalition against the dump and are planning a public
On July 11, Port Moresby-based workers at Telikom marched to the prime minister's office, where they told chief secretary Joshua Kalinoe that they were on "indefinite holiday", and would switch off the county's telecommunications. The workers are
Sue Bull, Ballarat
A long campaign by three unions at the University of Ballarat for an enterprise bargaining agreement is coming to a head.
After 19 months of negotiations, a no-holds-barred fight is on for a union-based agreement; management is
Kim Bullimore
While the rest of the world has been distracted by the chaos of the Gaza Disengagement, the Israeli government has quietly sped up the construction of the illegal apartheid wall in East Jerusalem. Under international law, East
James Crafti, Canberra
Indigenous activists converged on Canberra on July 20 for the anniversary of the federal government's attempt in 1972 to destroy the Aboriginal Tent Embassy outside Old Parliament House. The tent embassy was erected on
Sue Bull, Geelong
As the campaign against PM John Howard's industrial relations legislation hots up, 88 women unionists in Geelong met over dinner to discuss the fight ahead.
The July 21 dinner brought together women from all Â鶹´«Ã½ of the
Fiona Alcock, Sydney
On July 20, two children — 12-year-old Ian Hwang and his six-year-old sister Janey — were released with their mother, Young Lee, from the Villawood immigration detention centre after the immigration department (DIMIA)
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