Against the wishes of the traditional owners, the Mirrar people, and against the wishes of 80% of Australians, Energy Resources of Australia (ERA) began construction of the Jabiluka uranium mine in Kakadu National Park on June 15. Just a few days
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Fight for free speech in Adelaide
By Jo Ellis
ADELAIDE — Green Left Weekly is under attack here. The city council will not allow GLW to be distributed in the mall without a permit. The permit will cost $10 per week per distributor. The council
'Nationalise the banks', say socialists
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — "The answer to Pauline Hanson's right-wing populist policies is not to reaffirm the failed 'economic rationalist' program of the major parties, but to launch a socialist
By Norm Dixon
Biwater, the huge British-owned corporation that has been named the "preferred bidder" for the Nelspruit's water and waste services, in South Africa's Mpumalanga province, is threatening legal action against opponents of privatisation
By Phil Stanford and Stan Thompson
RAMALLAH â An international conference in Jerusalem on June 7-10
commemorated 50 years of dispossession of the Palestinian people. The conference
overwhelmingly rejected the Oslo accords and discussed the
US agency bows to pressure on organic standards
After receiving more than 200,000 comments from farmers, environmentalists, consumers and others, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that it is backing down on proposed national organic
Building workers strike against award stripping
By Shane Bentley
The construction industry was halted by a 24-hour national strike on June 15 to protest against the award stripping provisions of the Workplace Relations Act. The strike went ahead
Forerunner
"A lot of the things I'm saying on immigration [John Howard] said in 1988, and he is trying to do something about Wik and native title." — Pauline Hanson.
Different
"People do not spend $3 million on a watch to tell the time.
Benefit gig for Indonesian prisoners
BRISBANE — The fall of Suharto and his replacement by B.J. Habibie, while not representing fundamental democratic change in Indonesia, have led to the release of a small number of political prisoners. Despite
Contracting dirty business on NSW railways
By Peter Perkins
In January, the NSW branch of the Public Transport Union distributed
a bulletin warning that the state rail system was under threat from privatisation.
Under the Hilmer
Cultural Battles: the meaning of the Viet Nam-USA warBy Peter McGregorScam Publications — 1998, 214 pp., $16.95 (pb) Review by Brendan Doyle
As a contemporary of Peter McGregor who, like him, was first politicised by the Vietnam War, I welcome
By Norm Dixon
Oil workers' union leaders Milton Dabibi and Frank Kokori were among nine prominent political prisoners ordered released by the new Nigerian military strongman, General Abdulsalam Abubakar, on June 16. Others to be released include
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