Anne Summers' new book, The End of Equality, paints a stark picture of women's status in Australia in the 21st century.
Despite winning equal pay for equal work more than 30 years ago, the gap between men's and women's wages is larger now than a
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Iraq war and the unions
The real question Brian Sketchley (Write On, 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly #566) needs to answer, and hasn't yet, is what will it take for the labour movement to take a stand on the war on Iraq?
Yes, protests are not going to stop
Rohan Pearce
The January 13 publication of Ron Suskind's book, The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill, has once again stoked the controversy surrounding the pre-war justification given by President
Pip Hinman
On January 14, the Aceh high court upheld the verdict of a lower court which last year convicted five Free Aceh Movement (GAM) negotiators of treason and terrorism and sentenced them to long prison terms. The maximum penalty is death.
Alison Dellit, Sydney
"I have real concerns that this report will be used to justify a round of cost-cutting and attacks on workers' rights, rather than a genuine investment in rail safety", Rail, Tram and Bus Union (RTBU) NSW secretary Nick
Garry Walters
On December 1, 2003, I was treated by former Australian Railways Union shunters' committee fellow activist Des Crichton to a trip from Echuca to North Melbourne, for the longstanding annual reunion of shunters.
The shunters, other
Chris Latham, Perth
Train drivers on Perth's metropolitan rail-lines stopped work for four hours on January 11 to discuss the Rail, Tram and Bus Union's campaign for a new enterprise agreement. RTBU rail division secretary Bob Christison told Green
Leslie Feinberg
An inordinate amount of imperialist media attention on Afghanistan has focused on the wording of a new constitution approved by the Loya Jirga, or grand assembly. Like a huckster at a carnival shell game, the more the big-money
Robert Darcy, Perth
Wharfies at P&O's Fremantle container terminal walked off the job for 12 hours on January 9 following the serious injury to a worker the previous evening on the ship P&O Nedlloyd Yarra Valley.
The injured worker who was
The University of WA held two public meetings with radical journalist John Pilger on January 12 and 13. Despite limited publicity, the first night attracted 900 people while the second 350, with hundreds of people turned away.
Pilger discussed the
REVIEW BY LOUIS PROYECT
Goodbye Lenin!Directed by Wolfgang BeckerWritten by Wolfgang Becker and Bernd LichtenbergWith Daniel Bruhl, Kathrin Sass, Maria Simon, Chulpan Khamatova, Florian Lukas and Alexander BeyerScreening at Dendy cinemas, Sydney;
Allegations by asylum seekers of the use of cattle prods by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) when boarding refugee boats, especially at the time of the children overboard scandal prior to the 2001 federal election, have again surfaced.
In an
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