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CFMEU secures workers entitlements SYDNEY — Sub-contractors working on luxury units at a Newport marina will be paid their entitlements despite their employer, Horvat Construction, leaving unpaid debts after going into voluntary liquidation.

A double indictment

The Bogus WomanBy Kay AdsheadPerformer: Noma DumezweniBush Theatre, London REVIEW BY JONATHAN STRAUSS Detention of refugees, and their resistance to the inhumane situation in which this places them, is not confined to Australia. England also has

CANADA: Police try to intimidate FTAA protesters

BY EVA CHENG Canadian police have launched a ferocious campaign to discredit, intimidate and, they no doubt hope, scare off would-be protesters from the April 20-22 Summit of the Americas (SoA) in Quebec City. Leaders from 34 countries of the

Construction workers strike over workplace deaths

BY JOHN NEBAUER ADELAIDE — Five hundred construction workers marched on the offices of state workplace relations minister Robert Lawson here on March 8, angry that five of their colleagues have been killed on Adelaide building sites already this

Loose cannons

@subh= Lucky only 5% us live in dwellings "Ninety-five per cent of the economy showed good strong growth, but it was the 5% of the economy, namely, the dwelling part of the economy [that had caused the contraction]." — Treasurer Peter Costello

Iraq and Iran targeted for brutal treatment of women

  Photo by Gail Lord. On March 7 bus loads of members of the Worker Communist Party of Iraq, the Worker Communist Party of Iran and their supporters held demonstrations outside the Iraqi and Iranian embassies in Canberra. The

How the rich gamble with our lives

BY SEAN HEALY The Australian Stock Exchange will cop a pasting on May 1, when thousands of anti-corporate protesters blockade its offices and surrounding streets. The major reason for protesters' choice of target is obvious — the stock exchange