By Alison Dellit
The Australian government's response to the World Heritage Commission's damning report on uranium mining in Kakadu has been a predictable combination of "You're wrong", "You have no right", and "We're doing all we can". The report,
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Roxby Downs expansion to cause irreparable damage
By Emma Webb
ADELAIDE — On March 26, the $1.9 billion expansion of Western Mining Corporation's (WMC) Roxby Downs mine in the north of South Australia was launched by Prime Minister John Howard.
... and ain't I a woman?: Harassment is never OK
Two recent cases involving sexual harassment in the workplace had very different outcomes. In Italy, a compensation claim by a woman alleging that sexual harassment forced her to leave her job
CPSU members reject performance-based pay
By Nick Everett
— On April 14 the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) Centrelink Section Council voted to recommend to its membership the introduction of a new "performance-based" pay system within
Liberal and Labor cover-up: terror in Timor
By Rohan Pearce and Nikki Ulasowski
As Indonesian-sponsored militias create chaos throughout East Timor and the Indonesian government threatens to send East Timorese Resistance leader Xanana Gusmao back
By Tom Flanagan
SYDNEY — About 90 people attended a seminar titled "Globalisation and the Third Way" presented by the International Socialist Organisation on April 16 at the University of Technology, Sydney. Speakers were ALP parliamentarian Mark
Eyewitness account from Liquica
Following is an eyewitness account from Liquica priest RAFAEL DOS SANTOS. It is a translation by Human Rights Watch of a report in the Dili daily paper Suata Timor Timur on April 8. At about 13:00, members of Besi
MUA: Rank and File challenge warmly received
By Dick Nichols
For Dave Cushion, the National MUA Rank and File candidate for Victorian branch secretary, the Maritime Union of Australia election, which began on April 14, is about "reestablishing
Crime wave' blamed on youth
By Ruth Ratcliffe
BRISBANE — According to the Queensland Victims of Crime Association, Ipswich is in the grip of a juvenile "crime wave" being waged by a small group of notorious child criminals. This claim follows
The Australian Vice-Chancellors Committee has received legal advice from Minter Ellison that the government's voluntary student unionism (VSU) legislation may be unconstitutional. This is denied by education minister David Kemp, who claims that he
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