On November 20, ABC Radio's PM program and most TV network news programs reported that Australian Manufacturing Workers Union national secretary Doug Cameron had been punched on the nose outside his home on November 18. On November
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With each new comment on the Australian economy, smug federal treasurer Peter Costello becomes even more smug. "Look at my beautiful numbers", he seems to purr. "Real wages are increasing and yet inflation is contained at 2.6%. And
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In the face of broad opposition to the attacks on higher education contained in last May's federal budget, education minister Brendan Nelson has announced numerous, if minor, concessions hoping to win over top university bureaucrats
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Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The total market value of goods and services produced in the economy within a given period (usually a year) after deducting the costs of goods and services used up in the process of production. Balance on goods and
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This is the second week of our campaign to get more Friends of 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly — people who will give a regular donation to the paper, to help us ensure that we can keep covering the news and providing analysis you won't find
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SYDNEY — Fancy-suited councillors grumbled about feeling "intimidated" when protesters packed into an Auburn council meeting on November 19 to oppose the construction of a waste compacting plant at the former Clyde rail yards,
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'Bush off' warmongers Thursday [November 20] saw the largest ever week-day demonstration London has ever seen. Something like 150,000 marched through the streets protesting at George Bush's state visit to the UK. The feeling on the streets was
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CANBERRA — "More 'babies overboard' and outright lies" was how refugee advocate Marion Le described immigration minister Amanda Vanstone's response to the recent arrival on Melville Island of a group of Kurdish refugees. Le
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"I hate to disappoint your readers", an earnest David Barsamian told 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly on November 6, "but most Americans are not genetically ignorant. For people to believe that Iraq is about to attack them, that they are
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Since 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly first started being posted on the world-wide web in September 1995, we knew it was an opportunity to reach a whole new layer of readers. When, after a while, we were able to put all the back issues on the web
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A November 19 press release from the US military's Central Command was headlined, "Operations Make Iraq Safer, Improve Quality of Life". It was referring to the renewed offensive by US occupation forces against Iraqi resistance
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The federal Liberal Party has realised that being too blatant about dismantling Medicare is electorally dangerous. After widespread negative reactions to its fraudulently named "Fairer Medicare" package, on November 18 the
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MELBOURNE — Following a three-month campaign to resist job cuts, workers employed in the state Department of Education and Training (DET), frustrated by intransigence of Premier Steve Bracks' Labor government, went on strike on
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Aussie battler "I believe I am entitled to be paid for my labour irrespective of how much of the company I own." — Frank Lowy, who last year was paid $13.39 million as executive chairman of Westfield Holdings and who also heads the company's
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WA Labor attacks CFMEU officials PERTH — On November 17, the Western Australian Labor government announced that it would be initiating action to strip Joe McDonald, state assistant secretary of construction division of the Construction, Forestry,
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BRISBANE — Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) activist Danny Dougherty was elected state secretary of the printing division of the union's Queensland branch on November 18. Dougherty comfortably won the postal
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SYDNEY — Potest rally on November 19 against the NSW Labor government's attacks on TAFE, including up to 300% fee increases, underfunding and attacks on TAFE staff conditions.From 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly, November 26, 2003.
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BRISBANE — On November 13, Louise Matthiesson of the Wilderness Society addressed a public meeting in New Farm to highlight the lack of action by Premier Peter Beattie's Labor government on stopping land clearing. In May, the
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A whirlwind speaking tour by Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) member of parliament Colin Fox left a trail of inspiration and optimism along the east coast of Australia last week. Fox, one of six SSP activists elected to the
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NEWCASTLE — On November 19, 50 opponents of the state Labor government's plan to cut rail services between Broadmeadow and Newcastle boarded the 8am train to Sydney to rally outside Parliament House. Chanting slogans made up on
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MELBOURNE — One hundred and twenty socialists attended the Socialist Alliance's Victorian state conference, held on November 15 around the theme "Resisting the Empire". Renowned Marxist historian Humphrey McQueen opened
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SYDNEY — P&O Ports will cease stevedoring operations at White Bay on November 28. The company will then move its operations to Darling Harbour and share the facility with Patrick Stevedores. Lease costs paid to the NSW government
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SYDNEY — On November 17, the notorious anti-union labour-hire company Skilled Engineering refused to hire Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) maintenance staff employed at Patrick Stevedores terminals at Port Botany, Sydney and
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PERTH — Despite heavy rain and a fierce campaign of misinformation by the state Labor government, 5000 teachers attended a rally on November 18 as part of their campaign for a new certified agreement. The first full-day strike
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BY SEAN SEYMOUR-JONES& TONY ILTIS MELBOURNE — On November 22, 300 people rallied in Footscray Mall to protest against police racism and violence, and to call for an end to religious profiling and attacks on youth. The protesters marched through
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MELBOURNE — Protesters at a lunchtime picket of the immigration department offices on November 15. The picket was organised by the Socialist Alliance to protest the towing out to sea of a boat with 14 Kurdish refugees that landed on Melville Island
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BRISBANE — On November 17, maintenance workers who had been contracted to the Patrick stevedoring company set up a "community protest camp" opposite the wharf at Fishermen's Island, Port of Brisbane, to protest victimisation of
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After having contributed several thousand troops to assist the criminal US-led invasion of Iraq and then rapidly scaling down the number of Australian Defence Force personnel in Iraq, Prime Minister John Howard's government now is considering
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South Korea's workers have launched a wave of industrial action in response to repressive labour laws which are aimed at helping local and foreign capitalists undermine workers' wages and conditions. Workers' resistance has been met
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MANILA — On November 6, my son, 23-year-old Marx Vergel Melencio (BJ to us), was shot in the chest and head by an unidentified man. A CT scan showed that a bullet hit his optic nerve. Witnesses say the attack followed an
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On November 11, the people of the Dominican Republic staged a 24-hour general strike in protest at the government's neoliberal policies. Ten people were killed by police, 60 wounded and more than 1000 detained. Narciso Isa Conde,
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PARIS — The second European Social Forum, held in Paris from November 12-15, attracted around 50,000 people, mainly from the countries of the Europe Union. The ESF is modeled on the World Social Forum (WSF), held for the last
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SAN FRANCISCO — There is a free-trade agreement that gives an idea of what Latin America can expect from the US President George Bush's Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). In a few weeks, the North American Free Trade Agreement
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With disaffection with the US occupation of Iraq having driven voter support for US President George Bush to its lowest level since his election, the Bush administration has been forced to accelerate plans to formally hand Iraq's
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There was uproar in the Scottish Parliament on November 20 when "George Bush", who was in the public gallery, jumped up and shouted: "God bless my fellow war criminals in the Scottish Parliament. God bless my fellow mass murderers. If
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MIAMI — The November 20 protests against the US-sponsored, neoliberal Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) climaxed with a large and peaceful march of more than 30,000 people opposed to corporate globalisation. However, riot police violently
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BY MARCUS GREVILLE& JULIAN COPPENS LONDON — In a tremendous display of opposition to US President George Bush's and British Prime Minister Tony Blair's invasion and occupation of Iraq, a vast crowd — estimates vary between 200,000 and 300,000
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A trade war is threatening to sweep across the Atlantic as the United States lost an appeal at the World Trade Organisation on November 10 against a July WTO dispute panel ruling that tariffs of up to 30% that US President George Bush
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BY MARCUS GREVILLE& JULIAN COPPENS LONDON — Australians Against the War (AATW) on November 20 held a successful demonstration outside the Australian High Commission to protest against the Australian government's participation in the US-led
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REVIEW BY LOUIS PROYECT FridaDirected by Julie TaymorWritten by Clancy Sigal, Diane Lake and Gregory NavaWith Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, Geoffrey Rush, Ashley Judd, Antonio Banderas and Edward NortonBuena Vista DVD Frida is a really stupid
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Behind the Scenes at the WTO: the Real World of International Trade NegotiationsBy Fatoumata Jawara and Aileen KwaZed Books, 2003329 pages, US$19.95 (pb) REVIEW BY EVA CHENG Few people expected the Third World countries to force a collapse of a
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REVIEW BY SIMON BUTLER Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War IIBy William BlumZed Books 2003469 pages, $33.95 (pb) What is the link between an elderly peasant in Vietnam debilitated by exposure to chemical weapons, a