The National Union of Workers has condemned a decision by Nestle to shed 44 jobs — one-third of its work force — at the Purina PetCare factory in the small central-western NSW town of Blayney.
NUW state secretary Derrick Belan said on July 20
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Ian Lowe
Energy is the basis of modern civilisation. We have easier lives than our grandparents did because we use much more energy: electricity, gas and transport fuels.
Our energy use is equivalent to 40 human slaves working for us in shifts,
Mel Hughes, Sydney
This year's Queer Collaborations (QC) conference, held at the University of New South Wales on July 3-7, was attended by 250 people, most of them university students.
The conference — Australia's largest national forum for
Mel Hughes, Adelaide
Prime Minister John Howard "has a heart of stone", Terry Hicks, father of David Hicks, told Â鶹ӳ» Weekly on July 15, the day international protests were held against the Australian citizen's continued detention at the US
A People's History of the Civil War: Struggles for the Meaning of FreedomBy David WilliamsThe New Press, 2005594 pages, $51 (hb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
"What class has most interest in the war and has made the most money by it, and sacrificed the
Ben Edwards, Sydney
People in eight cities and towns across Australia are taking action to protest against the federal ban on same-sex marriage, which was passed with Coalition and Labor party support on August 13, 2004.
The Australian government
Doug Lorimer
Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson Hamid Reza Asefi told reporters in Tehran on July 16 that his government considers the package of proposals presented to it on June 6 by European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana an
Sue Bolton, Melbourne
Back in March, federal finance minister Nick Minchin was sprung telling the right-wing HR Nicholls Society that the federal government had plans to introduce further changes to industrial relations laws after the next federal
Doug Lorimer
On July 14, General Peter Schoomaker, the US Army's chief of staff, told a luncheon in Washington sponsored by the Defense Forum Foundation that the US was in for a prolonged war against Iraqi anti-occupation guerrillas, now in its
In GLW issue #675 an article incorrectly referred to Ali Kazak as the head of the Palestinian delegation in Canberra. He no longer holds this position.From Â鶹ӳ» Weekly, July 26, 2006.
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SYDNEY — A website exposing lazy politicians was launched on July 19 at the Penrith campus of the University of Western Sydney by Big Brother's Tim Brunero.
The first target of the site, <http://www.lazypolliewatch.com>, is federal MP
Kim Bullimore
Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora said on July 19 that air strikes and artillery shelling of his country by Israel over the previous seven days had killed 300 people, wounded 1000, displaced at least half a million and inflicted
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