BY JESS MELVIN & BEN COURTICEÂ
MELBOURNE — Culminating a week of pro-refugee protest action, 100
high school students gathered outside Flinders Street Station on June 28,
despite bucketing rain.
“People our age are the victims
498
BY NICK EVERETT
& SAM WAINWRIGHT
SYDNEY — Since the Royal Commission into the Building and Construction
Industry began sitting in Sydney in early June, lurid employer claims of
Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU)
BY ROBYN MARSHALL
For the first time in many years Queensland nurses are taking industrial
action to demand conditions in the public hospitals change once and for
all.
A nurse employed at the Royal Brisbane Hospital (RBH), who wished
BY ALISON DELLITÂ
On June 27, the Senate passed five of the six “anti-terror” bills,
in effect introducing a new “terrorism” offence into Australian law, broadening
treason offences to include any support for any group engaged in armed
Student conference to welcome refugees
BY FEDERICO FUENTES
PERTH — The collective organising the July 7-13 Students and Sustainability
(S&S) conference, to be held at Murdoch University, has declared that
it will give sanctuary to
BY REBECCA MECKELBURG
BRISBANE — The current dispute between the Queensland Nurses Union (QNU) and Premier Peter Beattie's Labor government (see article on page 2) is the latest in a series of industrial challenges facing the government since its
INDONESIA
The IMF: A globalising debate
BY MAX LANE
JAKARTA — The debate between minister Kwik Kian Gie, who is in charge
of the National Economic Planning Board, and the other ministers in President
Megawati Sukarnoputri's cabinet
UNITED STATES
Enron, WorldCom — there's worse to come
BY PETER BOYLE
The timing was spectacular. On June 24, US President George Bush
delivered a lecture to the Palestinian people about the corrupt and autocratic
nature of the elected
[The following remarks by Booker Prize winning author THOMAS KENEALLY
were read out to the June 23 World Refugee Week rally in Sydney.]
I am disappointed
I cannot be there today to add my voice to yours. Like you, I consider
the compulsory
BY LISA MACDONALDÂ
More than 13,000 people joined refugees' rights protests around Australia
on the June 22-23 weekend. In many cities, these were the largest protests
for refugees yet. According to refugees' rights supporters, this is
Nurses reject pay offer
BY MARIA VOUKELATOS
BRISBANE — The Queensland Nurses Union (QNU) has been in a month-long
battle over wages and conditions in the Queensland Health Service. Nurses
are demanding a 12% pay rise over the next two
Won't Pay!, 25 Monologues for a Woman">
Fo, Rame and theatre of intervention
Dario Fo and Franca Rame: Harlequins of the RevolutionBy Joseph FarrellMethuen, 2001308 pp, $49.95 (hb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
Dario Fo and Franca Rame hit certain
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