Loose Cannons
Find those Binladenburgers!
“Larry Ponemon, the CEO of Privacy Council, says that since September 11
he's been hired by at least one major supermarket chain to oversee the
handing over to law enforcement agencies of the
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UNITED STATES
Enron, WorldCom — there's worse to come
BY PETER BOYLE
The timing was spectacular. On June 24, US President George Bush
delivered a lecture to the Palestinian people about the corrupt and autocratic
nature of the elected
WA Socialist Alliance seeks registration
BY JANE ARMANASCO
PERTH — After successful state registration campaigns in NSW and
Tasmania, the Western Australia Socialist Alliance has begun the task of
acquiring state electoral
Definitely not bubblegum pop
BY NICOLE HOYEÂ
BRISBANE — With the empty lyrics of bubblegum pop music artists like
Britney Spears and NSync hogging the mainstream music charts and airwaves,
selling millions of albums worldwide,
Unwarranted Praise
Greens Senator Bob Brown, in a June 14 press release, congratulated
federal Labor leader Simon Crean for having “taken a large step in moving
Labor from the 'me-tooism' on asylum seekers it proffered during the [2001
Nurses reject pay offer
BY MARIA VOUKELATOS
BRISBANE — The Queensland Nurses Union (QNU) has been in a month-long
battle over wages and conditions in the Queensland Health Service. Nurses
are demanding a 12% pay rise over the next two
News Briefs
'Youth for Refugees' hunger strike
CANBERRA — Pro-refugee high school and campus students and young workers
took part in a 24-hour solidarity hunger strike on June 28. The hunger
strike, organised by Resistance, was in
SCOTLAND
Socialists ready to shock the establishment
BY FRANCIS CURRANÂ
With less than one year until the Scottish Parliament elections,
due in May 2003, the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) faces its biggest challenge
yet.
BY PAUL BENEDEK
SYDNEY — The last person you would expect to launch a book on East
Timor would be Gough Whitlam, who was, in 1975, the Australian prime minister
who allowed Indonesia's occupation of that country. So I was surprised
to find
Afghan refugee pleads: Don't send us back!
NOORIA WAZIFADOST is a 16-year-old Afghan refugee now living in Sydney.
She arrived in Darwin with her family in 2000, and spent 40 days in the
Curtin detention centre before being released on
SOUTH AFRICA: Sacrificing
AIDS victims for corporate profits
BY PATRICK BONDÂ
JOHANNESBURG — During the last few days of June, at the same time
as the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and Congress of South African Trade
Unions
Spanners in Beattie's dirty works
BY ANDREW PHILLIPS
BRISBANE — Workers at QBuild, the state government agency responsible
for building all Queensland government buildings, schools and offices,
are fighting for justice after being
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