By Jo Williams
MELBOURNE — Every day since the sacking of the Patrick workers, East Swanson docks have been filled with picketers. The largest picket line runs down Appleton Road and has become a festival of protest and solidarity. Information
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The real story
Anybody present at the wharfies picket in Sydney is impressed by the amazingly powerful feeling of the place and the lack of colourful background in media reports — the grand old Sydney rock walls, the banners, the family meals and
By Allen Myers
As part of its effort to smash the MUA, the government has claimed that the situation on the docks is exceptional. With absurd stories about wharfies making huge salaries for doing nothing, it tries to convince workers in other
Police violence at Indonesia solidarity protest
By David Gosling
CANBERRA — On April 24, more than 150 students and solidarity activists travelled from NSW and Victoria to meet local activists at the Indonesian embassy for an emergency rally in
Just do it, Nike!
By John Gauci
SYDNEY — According to the footwear giant Nike's "Informed Consumer Update", Nike's factory workers in the Third World sometimes earn more than doctors and engineers in their countries. As well, Nike's policy of
By Sarah Peartand Tom Flanagan
Opposition continues to mount against the proposed Jabiluka uranium mine inside the Northern Territory's precious Kakadu National Park. Defying the clear opposition of the area's Aboriginal traditional owners, the
Aborigines challenge Century mine bridge
BRISBANE — A temporary injunction halting a bridge providing access to the $1.2 billion Century Zinc mine, in far north Queensland, was lifted on April 15 by the Federal Court in Sydney. The case has been
According to a statement circulated by the Rubina Jamil Working Women's Organisation (WWO) last week, on April 16 the All Pakistan Trade Union Federation offices in Kashmir Road, Guberg in Lahore were attacked without warning and demolished by
Philippines workers support wharfies
By Reihana Mohideen
MANILA — More than 100 workers demonstrated outside the Australian embassy on April 24 in support of the sacked Patrick workers and demanding their immediate reinstatement with no loss in
Experience, not rhetoric
By Brandon Astor Jones
"Forty-four percent of Black teens who date said they [have] dated a White. Thirty-eight percent said they [have] dated a Hispanic, although, in this country, Whites overwhelmingly outnumber
A film of mesmerising power
WalkaboutRestored original cutDirected by Nicholas RoegStarring David Gulpilil, Jenny Agutter, Lucien JohnScreening at Trak, Toorak, in Melbourne and Chauvel, Paddington, in Sydney this month. Then at Electric Shadows,
By Edward Johnston
BRISBANE — Seventeen inmates from the 20-cell Maximum Security Unit (MSU) at the Woodford Correctional Centre in Queensland's Sunshine Coast hinterland, refused food from April 4 in protest at conditions in the US-style
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