BY SARAH STEPHEN
SYDNEY — 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly spoke to STEPHEN HOPPER, a solicitor who has been representing a number of the Indonesian-Australian families who were raided by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and ASIO at the end of October.
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BY TERRICA STRUDWICK
ROCKHAMPTON — The Queensland branch of the Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia has urged nurses to strike in opposition to a $15 million contract for the manufacture of up to 18,000 nurse uniforms over five
MAPUTO — The structural adjustment program under way in Mozambique since 1987, with its privatisation of well over a thousand formerly state-run companies, has led to 120,000 workers losing their jobs, according to the country's largest trade union
BY JIM GREEN
A US-led attack on Iraq is likely to result in between 48,000 and 260,000 deaths during the first three months of combat. Post-war health effects could result in a further 200,000 deaths, according to a report by the International
Peace danger looms
"The risk in the strategy [of allowing UN inspectors to return to Iraq], [US] officials note, is that the inspectors may visit those sites and discover nothing", — New York Times, November 14.
Washington, London and Canberra
BY SEAN MARTIN-IVERSON
PERTH — On October 28, the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) issued an environmental impact assessment supporting a proposed marina resort development at Mauds Landing on the Ningaloo Reef.
An ongoing campaign has
BY SAM KING
BRISBANE — Victory for the left-wing Ignite ticket has caused a radical change in student union politics at Griffith University, as Socialist Alliance members Paul Jacobs, Stephen Martin and David Lafferty were elected as 2003
BY JAMES VASSILOPOULOS
& LISA MACDONALD
SYDNEY — Anti-corporate globalisation and anti-war protesters won
a significant victory on November 13-15, when they successfully defied
a NSW government ban on protest marches during the
BY RAISA PAGES
Every year, an average of over 400 billion cups of coffee are drunk throughout the world. It is the planet's favourite beverage. In fact, coffee is the second most important raw material in commercial volume, following oil.
Coffee
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Stand Up and Fight!Photographs by John EllisNew International Bookshop Gallery, Trades Hall, 54 Victoria Street, Carlton, MelbourneNovember 30-December 21Monday to Friday, 9.30am-6.30 pmSaturdays, 11am-5pm
MELBOURNE — This excellent exhibition
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