Postcard campaign against slave wages
By Kerryn Williams
CANBERRA — On July 29, Young Christian Workers launched their postcard campaign against proposed changes to apprentice and trainee wages under the Howard government's Workplace Relations
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By Norm Dixon
Villagers in the southern Philippines island of Mindanao say that the Australian giant mining Western Mining Corporation (WMC) is colluding with the military to force indigenous people from their lands. The company has high hopes of
By Pauline Groves
NSW Attorney General Jeff Shaw has announced plans to introduce a bill to protect some confidential professional relationships, including those of counsellors, social workers and journalists. At present, professional conduct codes
By Norm Dixon
Two senior Australian executives of a Canadian copper mining company operating on the central Philippines island of Marinduque have been charged with criminal negligence over a disastrous mine tailings accident. A massive pipe rupture
People's Democratic Party president Budiman Sujatmiko is a hunted man. The PRD headquarters in Jakarta and Surabaya have been raided by the military. The house in Semarang of the head of Student Solidarity for Indonesian Democracy (SMID), one of the
By Jennifer Thompson
The Australian Industrial Relations Commission is hearing an application by the CFMEU mining division for exclusive coverage of production workers in the central Queensland coal port, Dalrymple Bay. The dispute heated up in
Comment by Jonathan Strauss
A recent ad in the Macquarie University student newspaper Arena reads: "If you're sick of left-wing groups that never do anything, so are we. We have no party line, no paper sales, no nostalgia and no leaders. Greens,
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East Timor
This is to congratulate GLW, once again, on its East Timor coverage. More than any other publication I can think of, GLW challenges our assigned role as the "window-shoppers and clock-watchers of
By Max Lane
According to 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly sources in Jakarta, at least 47 people were shot and knifed to death in Jakarta during the July 27 military attack on supporters of Megawati Sukarnoputri in the national headquarters of the Indonesian
By Iggy Kim
HOBART — Slow economic growth, combined with substantial cuts in federal grants, means the Liberal minority government will be wielding a very sharp razor in the August 15 state budget. The cuts are likely to badly affect public
Clothing workers strike
By Norm Dixon
The 83,000-strong South African Clothing and Textile Workers Union began an indefinite national strike on July 25 for a 10% wage rise. Half the union's membership is in the Western Cape. Workers are also
By Beavis Marks
With the Howard government pushing its brand of neo-liberalism down our throats, training schemes and traineeships are being "restructured" for the benefit of big business. In March I was made to participate in a CES training
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