Susan Austin, Hobart
On September 22, 600 health professionals attended stop-work meetings in Hobart, Launceston and Burnie to discuss their current campaign for a new industrial agreement. Tasmania has about 1100 health professionals, including
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Benjamin Dangl
Controversy is raging in Paraguay, where the US military is conducting secretive operations. Five hundred US troops arrived in the country on July 1 with planes, weapons and ammunition. Eyewitness reports prove that an airbase exists
Alison Dellit, Sydney
"I responded to my experience at Pizza Hut by becoming more radical. But many workers don't, they simply give up", Andrea told me. A former union delegate at the chain restaurant/takeaway store, she had become enraged at the
On September 24, huge crowds attended anti-war protests in a number of US cities. In Washington DC, the White House was surrounded by a sea of protesters demanding the return of US troops from Iraq. The ANSWER anti-war coalition estimated that more
SYDNEY — NSW planning minister Frank Sartor's racist remarks on Koori Radio on September 19 have generated widespread calls for him to resign.
Sartor, in charge of driving through a land grab in the Redfern-Waterloo area under the former Premier
The September 19 English online edition of the Baghdad Azzaman daily reported that the Iraqi Red Crescent Society has asked aid groups to provide urgent assistance to former residents of Tal Afar following the massive US military assault on the city,
BY DALE MILLS
An exhibition critical of the "war on terrorism" has been withdrawn — the second time that a work funded by the Melbourne City Council has been banned in the last 18 months.
The work's title, Canberra's 18, refers to the 18 groups
Louay Alzaher& Doug Lorimer
Tension ran high in southern Iraq on September 20 after British troops attacked the central police station in Basra, Iraq's second largest city, the previous day. The incident was sparked when British soldiers used
Nick Fredman, Lismore
In recent weeks, a bright orange bus emblazoned with the slogan "your rights at work" has been touring regional NSW, carrying a message of opposition to the federal government's industrial relations reforms and helping to
On October 2-3, the socialist youth organisation Resistance is holding its 34th national conference in Melbourne. 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly spoke to three Resistance activists about some of the campaigns they are currently involved in.
Solidarity with
Paul Oboohov, Canberra
The rank-and-file group Members First has announced it will contest the national governing council and agency-based section council positions of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) in elections due later this year.
Alex Miller
The Australian Socialist Alliance expresses it deepest, most heartfelt sympathy to all those who lost loved ones in the death, destruction and chaos wrought by Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana, Mississippi and other southern states of the
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