By Sean Healy
In George Orwell's novel 1984, every move you made was caught on camera. In the Hollywood blockbuster Enemy of the State, satellites watched where you went and heard what you said. And in Gattaca, your DNA was tested, diagnosed for
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By Justin Randell
BRISBANE — The University of Queensland student union executive has told the National Tertiary Education Industry Union that it does not intend to publicise the NTEU's industrial campaign during student orientation week on
Laboring on land rights
By Graham Matthews
BRISBANE — Has Labor sold out on land rights? This was the question raised at Green Left Weekly's monthly forum here on February 2, held at the Resistance Centre. Thirty participants heard Les Malezer
Are men biologically programmed to rape?
"Without exception, women's greatest risk of violence comes not from 'stranger danger' but from men they know, often family members or husbands", says Lori Heise, co-author of Ending Violence Against
By Melanie Sjoberg
The ACTU has gained a small win in its legal challenge to BHP's offer of individual contracts (Australian Workplace Agreements — AWAs) to iron ore workers in the Pilbara. On January 31, the Federal Court granted the ACTU an
By Norm Dixon
Following the January 21 bombing in Madrid, which apparently brought to an end ETA's (Euskadi Ta Askatasura — Basque Homeland and Freedom) 14-month unilateral cease-fire, the right-wing Spanish government has launched a serious
Issuing job seeker diaries (JSD) to all new claimants of Newstart and Youth Allowance. At the moment, less than half of the unemployed are issued with diaries.
The number of required job search efforts has increased from eight to 10 per fortnight.
Organising East Timor's working people
By Nick Fredman
DILI — Floating in this burned-out city's harbour is the bizarre structure of the Hotel Olympia. A large squat vessel that was formerly housing for oil rig workers, it has been towed to
36 reasons for action
By Michael Bull
MELBOURNE — The construction division of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) and the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen's Association (FEDFA) launched a statewide campaign on
From that moment on
"Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. That is, by systematically ascetic or heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than that you
By Jean Dupont
On December 26, the Revolutionary Workers Party of the Philippines (RPMP) and the government of president Joseph Estrada agreed to peace negotiations. The RPMP controls about one-third of the communist guerillas in the southern
Washing the blood from their hands
"I think any comment [beyond "understanding and sympathy"] is really intruding a little into the internal affairs of another country", Prime Minister John Howard opined on the outcome of the Indonesian and United
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