MELBOURNE — Community groups and environmentalists are highlighting the threat to Port Phillip and Westernport Bays by the oil industry and the danger to the Altona and Williamstown area from the proposed expansion of the Mobil Altona refinery.
124
Banks 'ripping off customers'
Australian Banks, by increasing their margins — the difference between the cost of funds to banks and how much they lend them for — over the past year, have cost customers an estimated $790 million.
Oz Shorts
Two feature length programs screening on alternate nights until mid-DecemberAcademy Twin, Paddington and then in selected cinemas in most capital cities
Reviewed by Norm Dixon
When I was a just a little tacker, the highlight of the
Hospital workers win a battle
By Roberto Jorquera
MELBOURNE — After eight days of Industrial bans, management at the Austin Hospital was forced to back down and reach agreement with the Health Services Union (HSUA) on procedures to be
Timber workers
This weekend (26-29 November) environmentalists from all over the country will be congregating in East Gippsland as part of the ongoing campaign to stop woodchipping. In the past woodchipping campaigns have been fought as a battle
Testimony blocked in child rape case
By Dave Wright
HOBART — A Supreme Court judge has refused to swear in a 12-year-old boy because he did not believe in God. The boy was called to give evidence against the man accused of raping him.
CIA paid off Haiti coup leaders
US officials have admitted that the Central Intelligence Agency paid key leaders of Haiti's military from the 1980s at least until 1991, when the army deposed elected president Jean-Bertrand Aristide in a bloody
Moves to reform marijuana laws
By Frank Noakes
Use of marijuana is so widespread in Australia that it represents civil disobedience on a mass scale. So it was only a matter of time before it returned to the political agenda.
An
By Anthony Brown
In the mountainous rainforests of Australia, something terrible is happening. Scientists first noticed the phenomenon in 1979. Since then, it has stuck ruthlessly. Its victims simply vanish, either totally or from certain
By Vivienne Porzsolt
Ha'fa Baramki, director of continuing education at Bir Zeit University on the West Bank, was in Sydney recently and spoke to Green Left Weekly of her experiences of the Israeli occupation.
At the beginning of the
Pages
