Security guards attack picketers
BY BEN COURTICE
MELBOURNE — Striking workers at Gordon and Gotch in Burwood have been bashed and intimidated by management's hired security guards in a dispute over an enterprise agreement. One worker was
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Police attack Beverley blockade
BY BRONWEN BEECHEY & JIM GREEN
ADELAIDE — Protesters at the Beverley uranium mine in northern South Australia have vowed to continue their blockade of the site, despite violent assaults by police and private
Canberra fiddles with more than the accounts
BY JONATHAN SINGER
In the days before the federal budget was presented on May 9, media commentators expressed concern that the federal government's 2000-01 budget surplus projection of $500 million —
Child-care expansion not an option
BY MARGARET ALLUM
"Some have wrongly attempted to stereotype my government as possessing what is described as an old-fashioned attitude to women. Not only is that wrong, but I think it is in part born of a
Nothing but air
Psst! There's money to be made between us. Big money. Betwixt wherever thou art and me is air. It's colourless, normally odourless, weighs hardly anything and comes in such quantities that there's more than enough to go around
BY JOHN GAUCI
SYDNEY — "The goal of our union is to create prosperity as a welfare state similar to that of Europe or the US", Indonesian union leader Muchtar Pakpahan told 50 unionists gathered in the Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous
Write on: Letters to the editor
Johnny Coward
John Howard is to be applauded for his stance on reconciliation.
Not because an apology is not in order, nor because reconciliation with the traditional owners of this country is not an important
BY SEAN HEALY
As protesters from around the world were gathering outside his Washington, D.C., office on April 16, World Bank president James Wolfensohn was rehearsing his riposte: you're not the defenders of the poor, he would tell his critics, we
BY NORM DIXON
The International Union of Agricultural, Food and Hotel Workers — which has 330 affiliated unions in 124 countries — has pledged to wage "a very strong" campaign on behalf the more than 9000 workers, mainly women, thrown out of
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