BY TIM STEWART
BRISBANE — Members of 20 organisations came together on June 26 to plan protests outside the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Brisbane.
The meeting unanimously decided that a march "to the gates of CHOGM" on the
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BY TIM GOODEN
GEELONG — After two months of fruitless attempts to negotiate a pay increase, workers at Geelong Windows decided that only industrial action would make their boss see reason — and got what they were demanding after a week of
Public need not corporate greed: Fund Medicare and end government funding of private schools, hospitals and health insurance
Axe the GST, tax the rich: Introduce a highly progressive tax on incomes, profits and wealth of the rich.
Jobs not
To the founding conference of the Socialist Alliance
Saturday, August 4 and Sunday August 5, Trades Hall, Lygon Street, Melbourne
The founding conference of the Socialist Alliance will adopt the platform and constitution of the Alliance and set
BY TOM FLANAGAN
"Whilst we might be the first trade union to walk away from the ALP this week, we also hope for the sake of injured workers in this state that we won't be the last", said Chris Read, the secretary of the NSW Fire Brigade Employees'
Convincing refutation
"... there's an assumption that we're an American company that exports things everywhere else to make a lot of money... Sure, we're everywhere, but so too is ... NBC and CNN." — McDonald's CEO Jack Greenberg.
Balanced
BY IGGY KIM
The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions has called its members out for a one-day national strike on July 5, in a determined response to an unprecedented wave of government repression which has included the arrest of several top union
BY DAVID BOYD & DANIEL OOI
SYDNEY — The University of New South Wales University Council has announced plans to merge the Faculty of Life Science and the Faculty of Science and Technology, a move which has staff and students worried about the
By Ian Rintoul & Dick Nichols, national convenors, Socialist Alliance
The Socialist Alliance was formed last February by nine socialist organisations to meet the burning need for a real alternative in Australian politics:
An alternative for all
101 ReykjavikDirected by Baltasar KormakurStars Victoria Abril, Hilmir Snaer Gudnason, Hanna Maria Karlsdottir2000 Sydney Film Festival
REVIEW BY MARGARET ALLUM
101 Reykjavik is the postcode for the part of Iceland's capital that is off the
Insensitive humour
"A person reveals his [or her] character by nothing so clearly as the joke [s/]he resents." — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799).
The chosen profession of Lichtenberg was physics, but as you can see by the quote that
It has now been six years since a federal Liberal-National Coalition government was elected.
During these six years, the government, aided and abetted by the Australian Democrats, has:
introduced anti-union legislation so severe that workers need
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