BY NORM DIXON
Members of the Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) are continuing their strike for better pay and working conditions. Takavafira Zhou, PTUZ president, declared on October 21 that the arrest and torture of union leaders, and
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BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS
MELBOURNE — Some 400 people on October 23 attended a forum on the
Bali bombings. It was organised by Asialink and was also simulcast on Radio
National and was addressed by academics Arief Budiman, Merle Ricklefs and
Tim
When using force to secure the peace,and encouraging more shopping to save the economy,and children and teens play video games that rewardfor every person decapitated and limb severed.When old women and babies are pepper-sprayedand rubber bullets
BY SIMON BUTLER
The mini-ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO) which is to be held in Sydney on November 14-15 will be met by a number of protest actions.
One of the protest actions planned for November 14 is a youth
BY SARAH STEPHEN
The 8500 refugees who hold temporary protection visas are already
denied the right to bring their families to Australia, are not allowed
to have access to free English language classes, resettlement services
or employment
Across Australia protesters gathered on the evening of October 25 to participate in annual Reclaim the Night marches demanding an end to violence against women.
The largest march was in Brisbane. Maria Voukelatos reports that close to 1000 women
BY PAUL BENEDEK
SYDNEY — In
a stunning backflip, one day after the Greens defeat of the ALP in the
October 19 Cunningham federal by-election, NSW Labor planning minister
Andrew Refshauge and Port Jackson Labor MP Sandra Nori announced that
BY BILL MASON
BRISBANE — Queensland's 16,000 public hospital nurses on October 25 won a 3.8% interim pay rise and the first round in their Australian Industrial Relations Commission battle with the state government.
The increase will come into
BY ALISON DELLIT
Most Australians do not expect to have to answer to the military. So it took some confidence for Prime Minister John Howard to announce on October 24 that the government was considering involving the Australian Defence Force (ADF)
BY PIP HINMAN
SYDNEY — The 45,000-strong anti-war rally in Melbourne on October
14 has spurred anti-war groups here to unite to build the largest possible
rally on November 30. A meeting of some 60 people on October 21 agreed
to organise a
BY BILL NEVINS
ALBUQUERQUE
— A New Mexico tribal drum circle concludes an honour song and John Trudell
steps onto the stage, all in black, even his eyes shielded by opaque lenses,
his dark hair streaming past his shoulders. His band Bad
BY ELIZABETH SCHULTE
CHICAGO — Iraq is one of the largest oil resources in the world —
with proven reserves of 112 billion barrels of oil, second only to Saudi
Arabia. This simple fact has shaped Iraq's relationship with the rest of
the
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