By Matthew Beager and Bruce Marlowe
The South Australian food poisoning tragedy follows food safety cuts by Liberal state governments. But these cuts have developed alongside federal Labor government attacks on quarantine and food inspection
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Brisbane rally against woodchipping
By Kathy Newnam
BRISBANE — Around 2500 people attended a February 25 rally against woodchipping organised by the Wilderness Society in King George Square.
Leonard Lee, a Brisbane journalist, called
Choice
"This is a most interesting election from many points of view: the fact we've known about it for so long, the fact that there are no real issues out there ..." â NSW Premier John Fahey on the state elections.
Advice on credit
CFMEU bans demolition
By Chantal Wynter
MELBOURNE — The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) has backed a campaign by Broadmeadows teachers and community leaders to stop the government from bulldozing the caretakers'
By Craig Cormick
Based on highly reliably international contacts, leaked documents and horoscopes from several TV magazines, Nostradamus' Media Watch presents a highly accurate forecast of political events across the globe.
O.J. Simpson
BRISBANE — The Council for Civil Liberties has condemned state attorney-general Dean Wells' handling of the proposed new Criminal Code as a disaster and asked Premier Wayne Goss to withdraw it. In a 19-page letter to Wells, council vice-president
WA teachers fight for wage claim
By Robert Graham
PERTH — State school teachers in WA have launched work bans on voluntary after-hours activities in support of a 20% pay increase. A 600-strong mass meeting of the State School Teachers
Aboriginal death in Long Bay
SYDNEY — "The hanging death of Brian Joe Ballard at Long Bay Jail Hospital is the second death to occur this year", said Ray Jackson, public officer of the Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Watch Committee.
"How
By Anne-Marie Donnelly
and Brendan Greenhill
BRISBANE — The Queensland Criminal Justice Commission decided late on Friday, March 3, not to charge the "Pinkenba Six" with official misconduct after they were cleared of criminal charges in
By Jim Beatson
Noam Chomsky, on his recent trip to Australia, when asked about Bougainville, explained, "I don't think it's a hard one. It's a pretty reasonable if people get to work on it. Bougainville is an easy one for Australian activists to
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