Write On — letters to the editor
Refugees
Jim Faggotter (Write On GLW #491) says that if Australia's detention
centres were closed we would get “millions of refugees”.
Undoubtedly, if refugees were treated more humanely the number
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The Game
I must tell you of my felony.
It is, that at every moment, I was falling away
from beauty.
In a woman's face I was the eternal coldness,
in her hands the unmaturing child
growing heavier, disturbing her spine
year
Activists “welcomed” the G8 summit, held in Kananaskis, Canada,
June 26-28, with a string of anti-corporate protests. On June 26, some
4000 people took part in a three-hour snake march through Calgary, the
closest city to Kananaskis. The march
Global Circus
Roll up, roll up,
to the head of the queue.
Step up, step up,
come take a pew.
Gather round you clowns
applaud the acrobats
of global domination.
Cheer on the jugglers
Of world-wide manipulation.
Come to the
BY NICK EVERETT
& SAM WAINWRIGHT
SYDNEY — Since the Royal Commission into the Building and Construction
Industry began sitting in Sydney in early June, lurid employer claims of
Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU)
Big Sister?
Australia's Big Brother television show is unfortunately not
unique. In the last three years, 36 different versions of the show have
been aired around the world — but while 50% of the “contestants” are always
women,
BY ROBYN MARSHALL
For the first time in many years Queensland nurses are taking industrial
action to demand conditions in the public hospitals change once and for
all.
A nurse employed at the Royal Brisbane Hospital (RBH), who wished
BY JESS MELVIN & BEN COURTICEÂ
MELBOURNE — Culminating a week of pro-refugee protest action, 100
high school students gathered outside Flinders Street Station on June 28,
despite bucketing rain.
“People our age are the victims
BY REBECCA MECKELBURG
BRISBANE — The current dispute between the Queensland Nurses Union (QNU) and Premier Peter Beattie's Labor government (see article on page 2) is the latest in a series of industrial challenges facing the government since its
PALESTINE: Operation 'Determined Path' to massacre
BY ROHAN PEARCE
The expression “peace process” has become increasingly meaningless.
As Israel's murderous “Operation Determined Path” continues, and White
House pronouncements lose any
INDONESIA
The IMF: A globalising debate
BY MAX LANE
JAKARTA — The debate between minister Kwik Kian Gie, who is in charge
of the National Economic Planning Board, and the other ministers in President
Megawati Sukarnoputri's cabinet
Student conference to welcome refugees
BY FEDERICO FUENTES
PERTH — The collective organising the July 7-13 Students and Sustainability
(S&S) conference, to be held at Murdoch University, has declared that
it will give sanctuary to
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