BY KAMALA EMANUELÂ
HOBART — Four hundred nurses rallied on the Parliament House lawns
on May 25 to protest the failure of the state Labor government to live
up to an enterprise bargaining agreement (EBA) under which all nurses with
495
BY SHANE BENTLEY
SYDNEY — Striking workers at the Dayson compressor maintenance plant in Rydalmere have rejected a management offer of a 4% pay increase in August and a further 2% in December, as part of a non-union agreement.
The workers have
BY JOHN PILGER
LONDON — Soon after New Labour came to power in 1997, the then foreign
secretary, Robin Cook, announced an “ethical dimension” to British foreign
policy. He said that the government “will not issue an (arms) export licence
if
Inessa, Lenin's Mistress
By Michael Pearson
Duckworth, 2001
257 pages, $65.95 (hb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
When Inessa Armand met Vladimir Lenin in a Paris caf‚ in 1909, so
began one of the most speculated about love affairs on the
BY EVA CHENG
The rulers of India and Pakistan — both nuclear-armed allies of Washington in the US-led "war on terrorism" — are terrorising each other with the threat of nuclear war.
The Pentagon estimates that a full-scale nuclear exchange
BY SUE BOLTON
The ballot for the position of national secretary of the Australian
Manufacturing Workers Union food and con- fectionary division has still
not been decided. The ballot closed on May 20 and counting was carried
out on May
BY JESS MELVIN
Tens of thousands of people around the country attended public meetings
featuring Tenzin Gyatso, TibetÂ’s 14th Dalai Lama, in late May. His May
20 Melbourne address attracted 9000 students.
Gyatso received the 1989 Nobel
GLW #494 incorrectly stated that Doug Cameron is the national president
of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union. He is the national secretary.
GLW apologises for the error.
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BY TONY ILTIS
MELBOURNE — A non-violent blockade of a meeting featuring immigration minister Philip Ruddock, extreme right-wing Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt and anti-immigration academic Bob Birrell was violently attacked by police in front
BY ROHAN PEARCE
Media-monitoring group Electronic Intifada has released a report by Nigel Parry into media coverage of the April 2-May 10 siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, during which seven Palestinians were killed, and
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