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
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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
BY LISA MACDONALDÂ
More than 13,000 people joined refugees' rights protests around Australia
on the June 22-23 weekend. In many cities, these were the largest protests
for refugees yet. According to refugees' rights supporters, this is
BY ALISON DELLITÂ
On June 27, the Senate passed five of the six “anti-terror” bills,
in effect introducing a new “terrorism” offence into Australian law, broadening
treason offences to include any support for any group engaged in armed
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Fo, Rame and theatre of intervention
Dario Fo and Franca Rame: Harlequins of the RevolutionBy Joseph FarrellMethuen, 2001308 pp, $49.95 (hb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
Dario Fo and Franca Rame hit certain
[The following remarks by Booker Prize winning author THOMAS KENEALLY
were read out to the June 23 World Refugee Week rally in Sydney.]
I am disappointed
I cannot be there today to add my voice to yours. Like you, I consider
the compulsory
Nauru despair documented
BY SARAH STEPHEN
In early June, BBC reporter Sarah Macdonald and Australian refugee
supporter Kate Durham secretly filmed the conditions under which of asylum
seekers are being held on Nauru. The footage will be
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
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
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
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