BY SEAN MARTIN-IVERSON
PERTH — Parents, students, teachers and maintenance workers are furious that the state government has been hiding from them the possible health risks of asbestos in several state schools.
One school, East Beechboro
494
BY ANDREW HALL
CANBERRA — Government heavy Tony Abbott is asking the workers of his own department, the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR), to trust him, even as he seeks to reduce employee conditions and to introduce
Museworthy: Suffering, Related to Ownership'
Privilege —
someone else's suffering.
What I should have
refused
before I needed
to give it away.
BY MTC CRONIN
MTC Cronin has had seven books of poetry
REVIEW BY JON LAND
This is a two-part series looking at how two different individuals begin new lives in East Timor following the August 31, 1999 referendum on independence.
Rosa's Story, which screened on May 23, is a particularly moving account
Against war and capitalist Europe
Up to 200,000 people protested in Madrid on May 19, the culmination
of a weekend of protests outside the EU-Latin American and Caribbean summit,
which included 50 government leaders. Protesters marched with
BY ERIN KILLION
CANBERRA — Labor Senator Kate Lundy has spoken out against the mandatory detention of asylum seekers, saying that the policy "in its current form is not an acceptable way to process asylum seekers" and that "children should never
and aint i a woman: Playing the game
When did you last sit down and watch hours of women's sport on TV? Probably never, because women's sport is barely visible in the corporate media. But according to columnist Miranda Devine, it is women's
The dullest of records were
old Factory Reports bound, called “Blue
Books”. List of figures, translations of workers'
lives tossed about in debate
and later boredom. Members
of Parliament used these for target
practice (the force of
BY WILL WILLIAMS
WOLLONGONG — "Seventy-nine-year-old great-grandfather, tribal initiate, retired coal-miner, unabashed socialist and enduring activist", was how the May 7 Illawarra Mercury described Fred Moore after the Wollongong Trade Union
CFMEU
Gary McCarthy's tirade against the CFMEU NSW construction division [Write
On, GLW #486] cannot go unanswered. The CFMEU does not claim to
have led the anti-apartheid movement or the green bans of the 1970s. The
Building Workers
BY SAM WAINWRIGHT
SYDNEY — "If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again" — this could be the motto of the leaders of the Bus and Tram division of the NSW Rail Tram and Bus Union. On May 20 they finally got the majority of Sydney and
BY ARUN PRADHAN
MELBOURNE — After 164 years of dispossession and colonisation, Yorta
Yorta people have entered a new chapter of their long search for justice
and land rights. On May 23, the High Court heard an appeal by the Yorta
Yorta
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