CMG answers strike with lock-out
ROCKHAMPTON — Workers at Consolidated Meat Group's Lakes Creek plant have been on strike since June 3. The workers are attempting to win back wages and conditions stripped from them after the arbitration
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BY NICK BRAUN
The right-wing majority on the executive of the 283,000-strong Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) has declared the election of Socialist Alliance supporter Mark Serwotka as PCS general secretary "invalid" and that the
BY MALIK MIAH
SAN FRANCISCO — Here he goes again. University of California Regent Ward Connerly, a prominent African-American conservative and former benefactor of affirmative action programs, has submitted nearly one million voter signatures to
BY ALISON DELLIT
The federal government's repressive "anti-terror" bills are moving closer to being passed. On June 4, attorney-general Daryl Williams announced that the government had finalised its amendments to the main package, accepting most of
GUJARAT - The Indian government's Narmada Control Authority (NCA) on May 17 arbitrarily decided to raise the height of the controversial Sardar Sarovar Dam on the Narmada River, in the western Indian state of Gujarat, from 90 to 95 metres. This will
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The honourable Philip Ruddock, the Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, has described detainees hurting themselves when some people from the community try to access the detention centre. This is absolutely untrue.
The
BY KERRY VERNON
BRISBANE — Queensland's nurses have begun a state-wide industrial campaign after rejecting a state government offer that was one-third of what the Queensland Nurses Union (QNU) has sought. Gay Hawksworth, QNU state secretary, said
and ain't i a woman: Too pretty for compensation
A West Australian widow, Teresa de Sales, whose husband drowned 12 years ago, has had the compensation originally awarded to her reduced by 20% on the grounds that she is young, healthy and
BY EVA CHENG
Officially, the recent string of visits by top US officials to India and Pakistan were to defuse the military stand-off between the two nuclear-armed countries. However, George Bush's regime is seizing on the confrontation to
BY SUE BULL
MELBOURNE — The federal Coalition government is rolling out its big guns to attack Victoria's militant trade unionists. In the latest outburst, immigration minister Philip Ruddock slammed the Victorian branch of the Construction,
BY GRAHAM WILLIAMS
MELBOURNE — Maintenance workers at the BHP factory in Hastings decided to return to work on June 14 after beating the "Big Australian". They had been on strike since May 21. The 280 workers, who were fighting BHP's attempts to
SYDNEY — The refugees'
rights campaign came to the western Sydney suburb of Fairfield on June
15. Around 30 people took part in a march organised by the western Sydney
Resistance branch to promote the June 23 National Refugee Week actions.
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