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
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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.
International news briefs
Indonesian students oppose fee increases
JAKARTA — Four hundred students demonstrated on February 2 at the University of Indonesia to protest against the proposed withdrawal of subsidies for student university fees.
By Daniel Jardine
One hundred and thirty governments concluded an agreement in Montreal, Canada, on January 29 on the international transport of living modified organisms that have been created by genetic engineering and biotechnology. Negotiations
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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
Hemp, not forests
As our old growth forests continue to be destroyed, something needs to be done, and sooner rather than later.
In Australia, hemp was widely used for paper making until the 1920s, until investors in pulp technology and owners of
By Dale T. McKinley
JOHANNESBURG — Why does the predictable (if uneven) evolution of the African National Congress's (ANC) socioeconomic strategy and policy continue to be treated by the South Africa's media commentators as if it were a
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
Networker: Cybersquatters
You can't stand in a public place these days without seeing some sort of internet advertising. Hardly a poster fails to carry the ".com" footnote, inviting web surfers to an particular site. These ".coms" are the
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