BY ERIC RUDER
CHICAGO — "I'm all name and no money", George Bush claimed in 1986. In 1975, Bush returned to Texas after his stint at Yale and Harvard in the hope of copying his father's success in the Texas oil business. By the end of the
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BY BILL MASON
BRISBANE — More than 200 people, including representatives of Indigenous groups from all over Queensland, protested in the Roma Street Forum on August 3 against the state Labor government's compensation offer on the "stolen wages"
BY DAVID BACON
SAN FRANCISCO — A labour war is looming on the west coast docks, which could become the defining union conflict of the Bush administration. But the traditional issues of union bargaining — wages, benefits and working
A blue-print to shift further right
After six months of hoopla, the much-anticipated review of the ALP's
structures was released on August 9. The document is part distraction —
proposing minor changes to make the party appear more
BY STUART MARTIN
In the last few years, the increasing use of labour-hire workers
in the construction, manufacturing and telecommunications industries has
generated a discussion among unionists about how to best fight it and preserve
BY RUTH RATCLIFFE
"They were all swept along by the one idea: that they might still get through the adjoining disused mine if they could get there before the way was cut off... In their frightened hearts old slumbering beliefs came back to
BY BILL NEVINS
Steve Earle has always been intrigued by fighters, and by the reasons
why they fight. He has championed union organisers, the impoverished, death-row
inmates and indigenous rights activists. As one of America's most prominent
REVIEW BY IGGY KIM
Abducting DianaWritten by Dario FoDirected and adapted by Shane MorganWith Hayley Buckley, Martin Viski, Moira Hunt, Mark Duffy, Mandy Thomas, Joanne Trentini and Shaun ParkerPlaying at the New Theatre, Sydney, until August 31
and aint i a woman: Refugees: A feminist issue
Figures from the office of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) indicate that 51% of refugees are female. The oppression and exploitation of the Third World forces millions of
1000 sign to oppose refugee policy
HOBART — More than 1000 people have signed a handmade, leather-bound book in one week to demonstrate their dissent from the federal government's refugee policies.
The project was launched by Tasmanians for
HOBART — The Greens won four seats in the July 20 Tasmanian election, the result of a record Greens vote. ALEX BAINBRIDGE and DARREN JIGGINS spoke to Greens' leader PEG PUTT.
Putt described the Greens' result as a "community victory, not simply
BY NORM DIXON
The Australian government has the dubious distinction of being one of only three governments — along with Britain and Israel — to have unconditionally endorsed the United States' impending invasion of Iraq. Washington is
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