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NEWCASTLE — "The trade union movement is at a crossroads — we can stick or heads in the sand, we can throw up our hands and promise to be good or we can lead the fight against Howard and make these laws inoperable."
This is what Steve Murphy
PM John Howard and the federal Coalition's anti-union legislation will be disastrous for all workers, but some are likely to fare worse than others. Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly spoke to Jenny Kruschel, Victorian assistant secretary of the Textile, Clothing and
MELBOURNE — At a meeting to launch its social justice charter for 2005, Hume City Council reaffirmed its opposition to the proposed Broadmeadows immigration detention centre.
Councillor Gary Jungwirth, the HCC's portfolio councillor for social
Nick Everett, Canberra
On June 20, federal workplace relations minister Kevin Andrews demanded the ACTU remove TV advertisements claiming that under the federal government's planned new industrial relations laws, workers could be forced into
Sarah Stephen
How fast the federal Coalition government can move when it wants to! On June 17, Prime Minister John Howard came to an agreement with the "Rebel 4" Liberal Party backbenchers on a compromise deal to reduce the harshness of mandatory
Peter Boyle & Margarita Windisch
Union leaders around the country are demanding that federal Labor and state Labor governments actively fight PM John Howard's proposed new anti-union laws.
On June 15, National Union of Workers NSW secretary
On June 21, President Alfredo Palacio declared that Ecuador will not be signing a treaty granting US troops in the country immunity from prosecution for crimes against humanity before the International Criminal Court. The decision, which followed a
Mick Bull, Melbourne
The Victorian branch of the construction division of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) has broken through in its quest to get a new industry-wide pattern enterprise bargaining agreement (EBA).
On
Dick Nichols
The fourth issue of Socialist Alliance's quarterly magazine Seeing Red, now out, focuses on the federal Coalition government's plans to break the back of the Australian trade union movement through its "reforms" to industrial relations
Eva Cheng
Hong Kong's phoney election for a new chief executive took a farcical twist on June 16 when the legally required secret ballot was done away with, leaving no possibility for even isolated protest votes to be cast.
With strong
Pablo Neruda: A Passion for LifeBy Adam FeinsteinBloomsbury, 2004497 pages, $65 (hb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
Pablo Neruda was a poet who won the Nobel prize for literature. He was also a lifelong, if increasingly troubled, Stalinist. As Adam
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