BY SHANE BENTLEY
SYDNEY — The New South Wales branch of the National Union of Workers has severed its ties with the NSW Labor Party in protest against the ALP state government's refusal to help the union in its legal battle with Davids Holdings.
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Springsteen upsets cops with Diallo song
By Norm Dixon
"Standing on the stage at Madison Square Garden momentarily shrouded in darkness, Bruce Springsteen sang the words '41 shots' nine times last night. The words begin his new song deploring the
BY SEAN HEALY
A mass break-out by 700 asylum seekers imprisoned in three separate
detention centres in South Australia and Western Australia has left federal
immigration minister Philip Ruddock desperate to salvage his government's
widely
By Sibylle Kaczorek
DARWIN — On June 2, artist Dadang Christanto's exhibition titled
“Reconciliation” was opened with a powerful performance and installation.
Christanto, who was born in Indonesia in the late 1950s, uses simple
Honeymoon mine assessment begins
BY JIM GREEN
Canadian company Southern Cross Resources has released its environment
impact statement for the proposed Honeymoon uranium mine in north-east
South Australia.
The operation involves
Abandoned Kakadu mines are still radioactive
BY BRIAN TUPP
A memo from the Office of the Supervising Scientist, leaked to environmentalists
on June 6, has confirmed that abandoned South Alligator uranium mines are
posing a radiation
Peanut butter and pineapple rings
Did ya see it? I certainly did. You wouldn't catch me missing an event like that. Not in a million years. Came right up the main street, it did. In cooee of our front gate. The kids were so THRILLED. Their
Fikile Majola, general secretary of the National Education, Health and
Allied Workers Union (NEHAWU), on June 7 called on university workers and
students around the world to offer urgent solidarity to the workers of
the University of the
D-Day for Dairy farmers
BY SUE BOLAND
July 1 is D-day for dairy farmers around Australia — not only is
that the start-date for the GST but it's also the date scheduled for the
final deregulation of the dairy industry.
Overnight,
Making a difference?
On June 8, Australian Democrat Senator Natasha Stott Despoja described
her experiences of being a woman politician. She was addressing the launch
of the New York-based Women's Environment and Development
Caught greed, bowled Satan
“In a moment of stupidity and weakness I allowed Satan and the world to
dictate terms to me.” — Hansie Cronje, sacked as South African cricket
captain after admitting to taking money from a bookmaker.
It was worth it
A friend wrote recently, informing me of the pain his grand-daughter
is experiencing. She is bi-racial and lives in a neighbourhood in England
where only a few children look like her.
 Children taunt her about
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