DARWIN — Mass meetings of teachers held over the past few weeks across the Northern Territory have strongly endorsed the decision of the Australian Education Union (AEU) to reject the NT Labor government's latest wage-rise offer of 11% over two
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John Gauci, Sydney
The NSW Teachers Federation has become the first union in the state to call for Unions NSW — the new name of the NSW Labor Council — to organise a mass delegates/union representatives meeting to plan a mass union protest
The following statement has been signed by many Australian union leaders and activists. To add your signature to this statement, email <unitedfightback@gmail.com>.]
PM John Howard has declared all-out war on our unions and right to
REVIEW BY ALEX MILLER
SuperpatriotismBy Michael ParentiCity Lights Books 2004160 pages
Michael Parenti's latest book is an impassioned and eloquent essay on "superpatriotism", Parenti's term for the ideology of US free-market global capitalism.
Two years ago, the Coalition government moved to change the criteria for the Disability Support Pension (DSP). The original bill was rejected by the Senate. Now, in its new term of office with a Senate majority from July 1, the same proposed changes
Bill Mason, Brisbane
While tensions continue to rise between the Aboriginal community on Palm Island, near Townsville, and the Queensland state Labor government, it has been revealed that some police officers involved in the "riot" on the island
Alison Dellit
On March 10, US district Court Judge Jack Weinstein dismissed a lawsuit brought by more than 100 Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange against the 37 corporations that manufactured the deadly chemical.
The plaintiffs claimed US
Pip Hinman
Labor Senators had another opportunity on March 17 to demonstrate their party's opposition to the Iraq war. But they voted with the Coalition against a Greens motion supporting the peace movement's calls not to send more troops to Iraq.
Rohan Pearce
On March 16, Iraq's new 275-member National Assembly met for the first time since US-sponsored elections were held on January 30. The parliament met inside Baghdad's Green Zone — the US-controlled area that houses most of the
BRISBANE — The Festival of Women's Ideas into Action conference, held on March 3-4 at the Power House in New Farm turned into a conference on the crisis facing women's welfare services.
Attended by 200 women, most of them working in women's
Andrew Martin& Lynda Hansen, Brisbane
On March 7, 180 Australian Manufacturing Workers Union delegates, activists and officials met to discuss the AMWU's response to the anti-union industrial "reforms" that the Howard government plans to push
If only it were so
"Capitalism is in the process of destroying itself with such sorts of demands." — Patrick Artus, chief economist of French bank IXIS, commenting on the announcement by Germany's biggest bank, Deutsche Bank, that it will slash
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