Thousands rally against forest agreement
By Martin Schenke
BRISBANE — A 3000-strong crowd rallied in King George Square on June 14 to oppose the state government's regional forest agreement (RFA). The rally was organised by the Wilderness
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Anti-GST rallies around the country
Thirty people attended an anti-GST rally organised by the Greens at parliament in Canberra on June 21, Karen Burns reports. Several speakers addressed them on the GST's impact. Greens Senator Bob Brown said that
Philippine solidarity with East Timor
DAVAO CITY, Philippines — The Asia Pacific Coalition for East Timor (APCET) launched the Help East Timor Now campaign with a week of solidarity activities here starting on June 14. The campaign is part of
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Settlement won by staff at Sydney University
By Tyrion Perkins
SYDNEY — National Tertiary Education Industry Union (NTEU) members at the University of Sydney have agreed to accept the latest enterprise bargain offer made by management on June
A conflict created by chauvinist intellectuals
Kosovo: A Short HistoryBy Noel MalcolmPaperMac, 1998 Review by Michael Cooke
This book provides historical background to current events in the Balkans. Malcolm's work is even-handed, judicious and
Latest on Indonesian elections
The Joint Media and Operations Centre in Jakarta, which has been monitoring
the Indonesian vote count, has estimated the final vote for the major parties
to be: Megawati Sukarnoputri's Indonesian Democratic
Dirty Dozen pesticides: banned but still traded
A review of recent US exports of the Pesticide Action Network's "Dirty Dozen" pesticides indicates that a national ban is not sufficient to prevent a pesticide from entering a country. According to US
Road to destroy coastal wetlands
By Peter McCallum
MACKAY — The Queensland government seems set to push ahead with a major new road in Mackay that will destroy 12.3 hectares of coastal wetlands, despite Environment Protection Agency (EPA)
Youth wages: slavery in the free market?
By Ky Moon
On June 24, the Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC) handed down its final report on junior wage rates. With the federal Coalition government and big business hailing the findings
Wiranto: 'No gatherings of the masses!'
By Max Lane
On June 25, the Jakarta daily newspaper Kompas quoted the
minister of defence and commander in chief of the armed forces (TNI), General
Wiranto, as stating that the government would
Ripping off workers' entitlements
By Jonathan Singer
More than 400 coalminer members of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union, led by 45 of the 125 miners sacked from the Oakdale colliery, rallied outside Parliament House in
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