By Barry Sheppard
On June 18, 6000 members of the Independent Union of Telephone Employees (UIET), which represents technicians and phone repair workers, and the Independent Brotherhood of Telephone Employees (HIETEL), which organises office
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By Dave Riley
The issue of loyalist parades has dominated the final days of election campaigning for the Northern Ireland assembly. One of the most contentious parades of the Northern Ireland marching season passed without major incident. The
By Sibylle Kaczorek
On July 1 the federal government will introduce the Youth Allowance to replace the Youth Training, Newstart and Sickness Allowance, and Austudy for unemployed people under 21 years old and full-time students under 25. The YA has
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Early on June 11, a train drew into Yaroslavsky Station here, bringing 150 miners from the Pechora coal basin in the Arctic north. Linking arms, the miners marched through central Moscow to the building that houses the
MUA members speak out against the Patrick deal
Each week 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly sponsors the Friday breakfast show on community radio 3CR in Melbourne. The June 26 show covered the MUA-Patrick settlement, which was adopted against some opposition at MUA
Open the books!
The June 26 Financial Review front page article, “Corporate crackdown:
executives forced to reveal their salaries” explained that changes to the
Company Law Review Bill will require companies to explain in their annual
One Nation challenged by a multi-ethnic election team
By Jennifer Thompson
The Democratic Socialists have announced an initial 13 candidates for the federal election to present a progressive alternative to the economic "rationalism" of the Labor
Editorial: Unions can't keep ignoring Hanson
The large vote for the racist One Nation organisation in the Queensland
election, and the outfit's rise in national opinion polls, should be seen
as a threat by the entire union movement.
The
Don't they all sell them?
"He's a rare commodity for the NSW right in that he actually trades in ideas." — NSW ALP assistant state secretary Damien O'Connor on Michael Costa, new secretary of the state Labour Council.
Off the rails
"My father
Jabiluka 1
The ground it was sodden, the grass it was greenWhen first I did hear of something obsceneTo mine Jabiluka, to sink down a mineFor what use is a portal, without a decline?
Oh dread for the future, and cry for the earthWeep for you
Jabiluka blockade: 'a symbol of resistance'
JABIRU, NT — MEGAN KINNINMENT, a member of the Jabiluka blockade coordinating group, spoke to 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly's REBECCA MECKELBURG on June 26 about the situation at the blockade, which began at the
By Max Lane
Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer has called the offer
of Indonesian President Habibie of “special status” for East Timor a “significant
policy change”. This sentiment was echoed by Senator Robert Hill in the
Senate
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