BY ANNA BARNES& BETTINA QUATACKER
BRISBANE — Steritech, the company that has proposed the construction of a nuclear irradiation plant for Narangba in Brisbane, has applied to the Australia New Zealand Food Authority (ANZFA) to allow the nuclear
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BY PIP HINMAN
The recent well-publicised report by Global Alliance for Workers
and Communities on sexual harassment of women workers in Nike factories
in Indonesia is hardly earth-shattering news. By now, Nike's legendary
exploitation of
BY DANTE TAGLE
SYDNEY — "There is no such thing as an illegal refugee", Iraqi community leader Zainab Al Turkey told the 50 anti-racists who crammed into an upstairs room of Parramatta's Town Hall on February 26 to launch the Free the Refugees
BY NORM DIXON
Munyaradzi Gwisai, the leading member of the International Socialist Organisation who was elected to Zimbabwe's national parliament last June under the banner of the trade union-backed Movement for Democratic Change, has survived
BY GERALDINE CAHILL
MELBOURNE — Every year, community radio station 3CR serves a feast of women's programming, music and performance to celebrate International Women's Day. This year, 3CR's banquet will bigger than ever. It will kick off at
SYDNEY — The mass sackings and police repression of protesting Daewoo workers in South Korea prompted a solidarity rally outside the South Korean Consulate in Martin Place on May 1. Organised by the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union, the rally
Unionists for IWD
I'm writing to wish good luck to the members of the International Women's Day Collective 2001 in your march and rally.
The AMWU remains one of the most male-dominated unions in the country, with 86% of our members being male. I
BY TONY ILTIS
MELBOURNE — About 150 people rallied outside the Maribyrnong detention centre on February 25. It was the first in a campaign of weekly vigils that will occur every Sunday until it is closed down.
Victorian Trades Hall Council
If you can't beat them ... I
"I hope we have moved on from keeping the bastards honest to also giving them a few good ideas." — Democrats leader Meg Lees defending her record on February 28.
If you can't beat them ... II
"If I wanted to be
Union delegate sacked
MELBOURNE — Australian Manufacturing Workers Union members at the McConnell Dowell concrete silo construction site in Fisherman's Bend walked off the job on February 27 after their new shop steward, Jose Zuniga, was
The name of this column is taken from the comments made by feminist and ex-slave Sojourner Truth when she addressed the 1851 Women's Rights Convention in the United States.
The women's rights movement in mid-19th century North America grew out of
IRAQ: No to 'smart' sanctions against Iraq
US Secretary of State Colin Powell, while in Syria on February 26,
formally announced that the United States favours "refocusing" sanctions
against Iraq so that they impact less on ordinary Iraqis
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