By Sasha Ltana and Sydney Rainforest Action Group
Australia's "quiet achiever", BHP, is a major shareholder and the manager of what is probably the dirtiest mine in the world: the Ok Tedi open cut copper mine of Papua New Guinea.
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Zanny Begg
All in the family
Just before the federal budget, Channel 7's current affairs program, Real Life, featured a story on young people who leave home because of the attraction of welfare payments for the homeless. Young people who
Secrecy surrounds the Australian government's plans to sell Australian uranium to Indonesia. But evidence gathered by Greenpeace exposes its eagerness to be a big player in Indonesia's decision to go nuclear over the next decade. PIP HINMAN reports
By Wendy Robertson
The Yorta Yorta are the first Victorian Koori group to lodge a land rights claim following the 1992 Mabo decision. The claim is for areas of land along what is now the Victorian-NSW border which are part of their traditional
Call to lift ban on Pramoedya's work
According to an August 23 Jakarta Post report, 70 leading Indonesian authors and artists have asked the government to lift its ban on the publication of the works of Pramoedya Ananta Toer, whose novels have
"Mate, he's smiling." With these words, one cynical old union official described how he saw industrial relations minister Laurie Brereton's position after he had been jeered, catcalled and hissed by a hostile ACTU congress.
Smiling? After such a
Sixteen sacked over safety issue
By Elle Morrell
MELBOURNE — Sixteen steel fixers and carpenters have been sacked from a construction site at St Vincents Hospital for taking a stand over a safety issue.
When a three-metre iron
By Stephen Robson
PERTH — The case of Helen Carr, brought to public attention by Jim Scott, the Greens (WA) member for South Metropolitan, in the Legislative Council on August 18, seems to indicate that little protection exists for individuals
This is the edited text of a speech given by PEGGY TROMPF to a meeting in Sydney on September 1 organised by the Rank and File Alliance.
On Monday, I listened to the speeches of the president and secretary of the ACTU as they opened the
By Max Lane
According to an article in the September 2 Financial Review, many of the Keating government's budget back-downs were the result of pre-planned lobbying work by organisations such as the Australian Council of Social Services (ACOSS).
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