Work for the dole kills jobs
By John Tomlinson
Prime ministers John Howard in Australia, Jenny Shipley in New Zealand and Tony Blair in Britain all use the same rhetoric to describe the behaviour of lone parents and the unemployed. They claim
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World's best practice
We live in strange times. It now can be revealed that there has been in existence for the past year a body known as the Commission of Inquiry into the Inordinate Increase of Bludgers.
Some months ago this body sent out
Nothing as stable as death
"There is no basis for concern over the stability of any [tertiary] institution." — David Kemp, federal minister of education, responding to an accountants' report saying that a number of universities are "at risk"
Kyoto model funded by industry
The climate data and models used by the Coalition to justify its reactionary policy position at the Kyoto greenhouse gas emissions conference in December were compiled largely by fossil fuel industry representatives.
Appeal against Hindmarsh Island Bridge Act
By Angela Walker
CANBERRA — The 1997 federal Hindmarsh Island Bridge Act denies the Ngarrindjeri people of the lower Murray region of South Australia the right to seek protection of sacred sites
Victorian private prison deaths
MELBOURNE — The Port Phillip (private) Prison in Laverton North started receiving men in mid-September. In just five months, there have been many very serious problems, in particular five deaths in custody in
Greens, Democratic Socialists back MUA
By James Vassilopoulos
The Australian Greens have thrown their support behind the Maritime Union of Australia while condemning the Democrats' de facto role in helping out the National Farmers Federation
By Reihana Mohideen
MANILA — At the convention of the broad democratic front Sanlakas held on January 31, more than 100 delegates elected five candidates to stand in the May national elections. Fifty-two congressional seats will be contested
Wharfies receive enormous solidarity
By James Vassilopoulos
WEBB DOCK — "We had a 68-year-old widow send us 10 bucks and a solidarity message." According to Mick O'Leary, the wharfies on Webb Dock are receiving incredible public support.
Nuclear leak at British plant
Authorities are monitoring two workers exposed to radiation in a leak at the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant in north-west Britain, Associated Press reported on February 1. The workers were among 13 people in a
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