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
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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
BY SARAH STEPHEN
The government is responsible for “institutional child abuse”, according
to a May report by two Melbourne organisations — the Catholic Commission
for Justice Development and Peace (CCJDP) and the Western Young People's
BY RUTH RATCLIFFE
DARWIN — Supporters of Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly are once again having to defend their right to distribute the papers in public space. The latest attack on that right has come from Mindil Beach Sunset Markets Association (MBSMA).
GLW
BY EVA CHENG
Anticipating he would not be able to get parliamentary approval for a six-month extension of the state of emergency in place since November 2001, on May 22 Nepalese Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba dissolved the parliament and called
BY ALLEN JENNINGS
The May 26 election of Alvaro Uribe Velez as Colombia's next president represents a watershed in both Colombia's and the United States' approach to the country's spiralling discontent and four decades of armed insurgency.
The
[MELBOURNE — On May 11, the Socialist Alliance sponsored a trade union seminar, discussing, among other things, unions and political representation. This question of relating to political parties, and specifically the ALP, has been an increasing
BY NEVILLE SPENCER
SYDNEY — On May 31, Cuba solidarity activists set up a Free the Cuban Five Committee with aim of supporting the worldwide campaign to free five Cubans sentenced to long prison terms in the US on espionage charges.
The five
BY MAX LANE
A major theme of the ceremony that took place in Dili on May 20 to proclaim the independence of East Timor was that the three-year period of United Nations transitional administration was a great success. However, East Timor has been
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