SAN FRANCISCO - On September 11 I woke up at 5.30am as I normally do before going to work at United Airlines. As I was eating breakfast watching the morning TV news, I was shocked to see a huge hole in the side of one of the two towers of the World
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BY NICK EVERETT
Thousands of Ansett workers have rallied in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane to protest the jobs and entitlements they have lost as a result of the aviation giant's collapse.
In Melbourne, 4000 workers from nine different unions
BY KEARA COURTNEY
SYDNEY — A strong statement of solidarity with the plight of asylum seekers was made on September 9, when 1500 people gathered to condemn the federal government's policy on refugees. The rally was organised by a coalition of
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@box text intr = In the days following the September 11 attacks on New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon, millions of Australians were glued to their television sets, fixated by horror and aching empathy for the victims.
The disaster could
BY KAREN FLETCHER
In the wake of the terrorist bombings in New York and Washington there has been pressure to cancel planned protests against the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Brisbane next month.
The CHOGM Action Network (CAN) has
REVIEW BY MAX WATTS
It is a simple, well-filmed story by Liz Thompson. During a war a man kills his near neighbour. After the war is over, the man is haunted by his deed. He feels deep regret and shame for what he has done. He seeks out the widow,
BY GREG HARRIS
Most people in the world don't have access to a phone. But if they did, and if they spoke 24 hours a day for the whole year, all those conversations could be carried over the world's telephone cables in a few hours.
This gives an
BY PAUL BENEDEK
SYDNEY — Students and staff from the Bankstown, Campbelltown and Penrith campuses of the University of Western Sydney rallied outside the vice-chancellor's offices at UWS Penrith on September 11. The action was dubbed UWS11.
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Refugees solidarity tour
ADELAIDE — Local supporters of the campaign for justice for asylum seekers will join the Free the Refugees Solidarity Tour to the Woomera Immigration Detention Centre on September 21. So far more than 100 have
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People's movements across the
BY GARY MEYERHOFF
DARWIN — The Northern Territory Labor Party said very little about mandatory sentencing during its successful August election campaign, and what it did say was highly confused. The only people who seemed to be saying that Labor
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