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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
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 MACDONALD  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 DELLIT  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
Won't Pay!, 25 Monologues for a Woman"> 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