Just eight months of Howard control of the Senate has produced:
The Building Improvement Act, which puts coppers on work sites and fines workers $22,000 for refusing to incriminate themselves.
The Work Choices legislation, which gives employers
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Ron Perkins, Perth
On April 5, the Maritime Union of Australia led a snap protest involving 300 MUA members against the provocative actions of a number of maritime industry-based companies.
Addressing the rally, MUA state secretary Chris Cain
Farooq Tariq, Lahore
The "Good Books" left bookshop was opened by well-known radical writer Tariq Ali on April 2. The opening of the joint venture of two radical publishers — Jamhoori Publications and Jeddojuhd Publications Lahore — was
No fooling her
"Iran is not Iraq." — NeoCondoleezza Rice, April 1.
Globalisation
"[Former Wimbledon champion Boris] Becker wants to live the rest of his life in the shadow of the Sahyadri Hills, an oasis of greenery in the dust of the Indian
MELBOURNE — On April 6, 85 people attended a forum at Melbourne University organised by Students Against War and Racism on the topic of Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism in Australia and the United States.
Hala Abdelmonour, founder of the
HOBART — On April 3, the Tasmanian University Union voted down a motion from education officer Michael Harris to support the ACTU's June 28 workers' rights protests and to encourage students to participate in the demonstrations. All but three of
Max Lane
On April 5, the Papuan People's Assembly (MRP) issued a resolution calling for the closure of the huge Freeport mine, a demand that had been raised by student protesters at a March 15-16 demonstration and at protests earlier in the year in
Coral Wynter, Caracas
Venezuelan political activist Miguel Laffe and three friends, members of the Communist Party Youth of Venezuela, were invited by the Farabundi Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) to be international observers of the March
Susan Austin, Hobart
Kevin Harkins, state secretary of the Electrical Trades Union in Tasmania, spoke to 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly about the June 28 national day of action against Howard's Work Choices laws.
It is "a damn fine idea", he said. "You need
On April 6, South Africans commemorated the 27th anniversary of the execution of Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu. Mahlangu left South Africa following the 1976 Soweto Uprising to join the armed wing of the African National Congress, Umkhonto we Sizwe. He
Save Che!
According to the front page of the April 5 Blue Mountains Gazette, the Blue Mountains City Council (BMCC) is attempting to force the owners of a Wentworth Falls private dwelling to destroy two large murals, including one of Cuban
Peru will go to the polls on April 9 in a hotly contested presidential race. Leading pre-election polls is Ollanta Humala, from the Union for Peru Party, a former army officer who led a rebellion against former president Alberto Fujimori in 2000.
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