Members of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) have voted by 61% to 39% in favour of a resolution from the union's Centrelink Section Council to endorse a new enterprise bargaining agreement, which will now be put to an
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PERTH Of the 392 adverse findings that the building industry royal commission made against Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union, two-thirds were directed against the Western Australian branch of the union. Does
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Anti-Zionism is not anti-Jewish Dawn Cohen (Write On, GLW #534) equates anti-Zionism with being anti-Jewish, and thus denies the anti-war movement the right to attack Israel's role in the US-led invasion of Iraq. "It is important to criticise the
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Despite the hoopla surrounding ANZAC Day every year, very little attention is paid to how destructive war is to veterans, their families and the society they live in. In the last few years, studies have indicated that domestic
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On May 1, the day of international workers' solidarity, anti-corporate activists, unionists and peace campaigners will be taking to the streets of cities around Australia to oppose the corporate looting of Iraq and to protest against the First
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For those who expected the US-led invasion forces in Iraq to be welcomed with open arms, events on April 15 proved to be a shock. On that day in Nasiriya, some 20,000 Shiite Muslim Iraqis protested against the US occupation of Iraq,
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On April 11, the University of Wollongong's council appointed George Maltby as chairperson of the Illawarra Technology Corporation (ITC), the corporate arm of the UOW. Maltby was already chairperson of Thales International Pacific
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With chaos, violence and a humanitarian crisis in Iraq, the Australian government is wasting no time in preparing to send Iraqi refugees home. Immigration minister Philip Ruddock told Channel Nine's Sunday program on April 13 that
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Since it was initiated several weeks ago by the Socialist Alliance, the petition campaign to call on the opposition parties in the Senate to block the 2003 federal budget by voting against all its military provisions has
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BRISBANE At meeting of 50 people at the Paddington Workers Club on April 10, Humphrey McQueen Australia's most eminent left-wing historian spoke on the theme of the War on Work, outlining the links between the war
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Adelaide: Speakout against the occupation of Iraq. 12.30pm, Thu May 1. Rundle Mall, city. Organised by the Socialist Alliance. For more info, phone (08) 8231 6982. Join Socialist Alliance's contingent to the unions' May Day Rally for Peace. 10am,
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Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. Includes the 91̳ news. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Sunday, 9pm. Phone (02) 9564 7822. Access
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HOBART — Deep in the forest, from the vantage point of a rickety bridge, spanning a lazy river black with tannin, some of the vegetation is as it would have appeared 60 million years ago. Myrtle, sassafras, celery-top pine,
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91̳ Weekly is taking a one-week break. The next issue (#536) will be published on May 7.From 91̳ Weekly, April 23, 2003. Visit the 91̳ Weekly home page.
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The following letter, initiated by non-affiliated Socialist Alliance members John van der Velden and Michael Morphett, was first circulated in late March in the run-up to the alliance second national conference, to be held on May 10-11. So far it has
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Mohib and Fatima Sarwari and their four children were arrested by police at their home in Launceston, Tasmania, on December 5 and taken to the Baxter detention centre. Their 'crime"? They failed to correctly notify the immigration
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Since 9/11, thanks to the implicit and explicit government and media propaganda that Islam is the new enemy of the West, those Australians who are most visibly Muslim women who wear a headscarf (hijab) or full body covering (chador)
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Ebrihim Sammaki fled Iran after the fall of the Shah, and fell in love with an Indonesian woman, Endong, while he was living in Indonesia. Nine years ago, they married and had two children. Then, two years ago, Ebrihim
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Martin Kingham is the Victorian secretary of the construction and general division of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU). On April 29, he will face charges in the Melbourne Magistrates Court,
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Hoping another US invasion? "So, they [US officials] haven't been able to confirm reports he [Saddam Hussein] was taken to Tikrit, and then Mosul, and then hopefully to Syria." — Multi-millionaire NBC Today Show host Katie Curic, April 10. He
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Protesters say 'no' to US submarineFREMANTLE — On April 19, activists gathered at the entrance to Stirling Naval Base on Garden Island, near Rockingham, to protest the presence of the US submarine Key West. USS Key West was
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SYDNEY — More than 100 people attended the launch of ATTAC (Action for a Tobin Tax to Assist the Citizen) Australia on April 9 at the Newtown Neighbourhood Centre. The Tobin Tax is a 1% levy on all international currency transactions
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BAXTER After months of planning, on April 18-20 up to 800 people from across Australia converged on the Baxter detention centre outside Port Augusta, to protest against the mandatory detention of asylum seekers, and show
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On April 15, the full bench of the Federal Court found that the government has limited powers to detain asylum seekers, and cannot detain them indefinitely as they await deportation. The court found that, in order to
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PERTH The WA Government is again bending to the wishes of the law-and-order lobby and the business community, this time at the expense of young people, especially Aboriginal young people. On April 15, Premier Geoff
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GEELONG — As part of a series of regional report-backs about the outcomes of the royal commission into the building industry, union officials arrived in Geelong on April 15. Martin Kingham, state secretary of the Construction,
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There have been many theories floated in Australia's newspapers as to why federal Labor leader Simon Crean is doing so badly in the polls. Two polls in as many days indicated most Labor supporters prefer former PM Kim Beazley to lead the party. The
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BY NORM DIXON & BARRY SHEPPARD Even as the world's corporate media was declaring the end of the Iraq war, on April 12 as many as 2 million people mobilised across the globe to oppose the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. In
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On April 15, 13 Iraqi civilians were killed and 29 wounded by US troops in the northern city of Mosul. The next day, US troops shot dead a further four Iraqis and wounded 10 others. Both atrocities occurred at anti-US protests
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The parents of a British solidarity activist shot in the head by Israeli occupation forces on April 11 have accused the Israeli government of deliberate recklessness. The attack, the third on foreign supporters of the
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At an April 8 press conference in Havana, Cuban foreign minister Felipe Perez Roque presented vouchers, bank receipts and photos demonstrating the truth behind the charges against 75 dissidents found guilty of conspiring with
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William Safire, Robert Bartley, Wall Street Journal, Jerry Falwell, Jay Garner, Balfour Declaration, Christian Zionism, Lord Palmerston, Lord Shaftesbury, British imperialism, Uri Avnery "> UNITED STATES: Architects of empire
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TORONTO — The Canadian state, at all levels, has responded to anti-war demonstrations and direct actions with an escalation of its campaign of harassment and criminalisation of activists. In Toronto, two large anti-war actions
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Conservative estimates by Wilma Meeus and David Sanders at the University of the Western Cape's School of Public Health show that rich Western countries have saved billions by enticing African medical professionals to leave their
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"The allegation ... of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) is an excuse [the US uses] when we have it out for other countries", Jon Wolfsthal, deputy director of the Non-Proliferation Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International
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Even as the administration of US President George Bush was waging war with Iraq in order to "disarm" its regime of as-yet-discovered chemical and biological weapons, Washington continued to implement a US$6 billion-plus expansion of
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The strains on Washington's close, seven-decade relationship with Saudi Arabia burst into the open last August when the Washington Post revealed that US war secretary Donald Rumsfeld's Defense Policy Board (DPB) on July 10 had
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The rift between the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) over privatisation has deepened substantially since January, when Pretoria launched the full sale of the
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While US government officials, from President George Bush down, have publicly denied that the US-led invasion of Iraq has anything to do with seizing control of Iraq's oil vast reserves, the orders given to the invading US troops
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The United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) on April 15 condemned Israel for its mass killing of Palestinians and its construction of illegal settlements in the occupied territories. The United States government was the only
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The world's most efficient secret manufacturer of weapons of mass destruction was not Iraq, nor is it Syria it is Washington's closest ally and partner in the Middle East, Israel. In September 1986, Mordechai Vanunu, a
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After several weeks of accusations from the White House and the Pentagon against the Syrian government of President Bashar al Assad — ominously similar to those used by Washington to justify its invasion of Iraq — on April 17 US
Culture
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REVIEW BY BRIAN JONES The PianistDirected by Roman PolanskiWritten by Ronald Harwood and Wladyslaw SzpilmanWith Adrien Brody and Thomas Kretschmann In 1939, Wladyslaw Szpilman played the last live music heard on Polish radio before the Nazi
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REVIEW BY SARAH STEPHEN No Blood for Oil: Australian Voices for Peace Various artists Order a copy of listen to sample tracks at <> No Blood for Oil brings together a varied and interesting collection of
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HairDirected by David AtkinsLyrics by Gerome Ragni and James RadoMusic by Galt MacDermotWith Matt Hetherington, Kane Alexander, Mitchell Butal and Kelly AbbeyCapitol Theatre, Sydney, until May 8Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne, from May 20. REVIEW