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NZ students arrested outside parliament

NZ students arrested outside parliament By Francesca Alice WELLINGTON — Baton-wielding police arrested 74 students on September 25 at a peaceful protest outside parliament. The protest, organised by the Victoria University of Wellington

SLAPPs: Silencing public dissent

This article is excerpted from Chapter 4 of a new book by Australian environmentalist SHARON BEDER titled Global Spin: the corporate assault on environmentalism. Every year, thousands of Americans are sued for speaking out against governments and

Rallies protest Jabiluka go-ahead

By Sibylle Kaczorek DARWIN — The federal government decision to give the green light to uranium mining at Jabiluka was met with a 150-strong protest in Darwin on October 9. Called at short notice by the Coalition Against Uranium Mining, the

Loose cannons

Under the bed "I understand the old Comm trick of staggering 20 people among 800 to cause a distraction." — NSW Premier Bob Carr, on being booed and heckled at the ALP state conference when he advocated privatisation of the electricity

Hanson protest planned in Adelaide

Hanson protest planned in Adelaide ADELAIDE — The "secret venue" of Pauline Hanson's next appearance here on October 18 has been leaked to Campaign Against Racism. The One National fundraising dinner will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, on

Australia: toxic exports outlaw

By Barry Healy A Greenpeace protest in Hong Kong Harbour in September stymied an attempt to export illegally Australian toxic computer scrap. Early on September 22, 10 Greenpeace activists occupied the freighter Zim Sydney in Hong Kong Harbour

ANU staff keep up the fight

ANU staff keep up the fight By David Gosling CANBERRA — National Tertiary Education and Industry Union members in the Faculty of Arts at the Australian National University held a stop-work meeting on October 8 and voted unanimously to

Problems in the Moscow princedom

By Boris Kagarlitsky MOSCOW — In December, Moscow will elect its city duma. In essence, these will be the first real elections for the representative power in the Russian capital since President Boris Yeltsin forcibly disbanded the Moscow City

Unemployment and the great pretender

By Jennifer Thompson The headlines about an increase of just under 75,000 people in work in Australia last month were welcomed by government leaders. But the news came just a couple of weeks too late for former employment minister, Amanda

Tax office campaign falters

Tax office campaign falters By Ben Courtice MELBOURNE — The Community and Public Sector Union's Tax Section has stepped back from its campaign against staff sackings in Victoria. While the CPSU has promised to strike the moment any member

Write on: Letters to the editor

Corruption For years I've been trying to get some disgruntled pollie or public servant to blow the whistle on the corruption and criminal activity within Government. Now even Blind Freddy can see what duds our present system is full of. It would

Too small for an IMF bail-out

Just when it seemed that a bail-out by the International Monetary Fund was becoming the fashionable thing to do in the Asia-Pacific region, we at Green Left Weekly came to a startling realisation. We realised that we are not in a position to