EAST TIMOR: Fretilin conference plans for the future
From May 15 to 20, the Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor (Fretilin) held a conference in Dili, East Timor. It was the first Fretilin conference in East Timor since the end of the
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Nike: How transnationals profit from human misery
BY LINDA WALDRON
MELBOURNE — On June 6, footwear and sports clothes giant Nike will appear in the Federal Court here, charged with breaches of Australian labour laws. This is a result of a
In early April, a Texas jury recommended that Kenneth Payne, 29, spend 16 years in jail. Payne's crime?: stealing a Snickers bar from a Tyler grocery store on December 17. When Smith county assistant district attorney Jodi Brown was asked by the
Edith Cowan students reject fees for courses
BY MAUREEN BAKER
PERTH — Students at Edith Cowan University here have established an education action group to reverse a decision by the university's council to establish an upfront fee-paying
Sorry apology of a killer bean counter
The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost WarBy Paul HendricksonVintage, 2000427pp, $19.95 (pb) Review by Phil Shannon
In his 1995 memoirs, Robert McNamara, US secretary of defence
We are all reconciled
I reckon I'm pretty much reconciled.
— You do?
Yep. I'm much more reconciled than I was last week.
— That's great. But I have a question.
Shoot.
— What is there to be reconciled about?
Where have you
Ford wins greenwash award
Ford Motor Company has won Corporate Watch (US)'s Earthday 2000 Greenwash Award, for the transnational corporation which best managed to bury its polluting record under mountains of "environmental" advertising and public
MELBOURNE — Free from corporate sponsorship and government control, 3CR brings the community social justice radio with integrity. They have tried to sue us, investigate us and to keep us quiet but 3CR prevails because it is the uncensored and
Wollongong students say no to internet fees BY CHRIS LATHAM WOLLONGONG — In the second such demonstration in a week, 100 Wollongong University students marched on the administration offices on May 24 to demand progress on a log of claims and
The role of the International Monetary Fund in determining economic policy in Indonesia came under the spotlight after the 1997 economic crisis. In the wake of the crisis, the Suharto, Habibie and then the Wahid regimes surrendered virtually all
BY CHRIS SPINDLER
MELBOURNE — Refusing to accept the outcome in an election for Victorian state secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union, the backers of defeated incumbent Julius Roe have obtained a court injunction preventing the
BY JORGE JORQUERA
MELBOURNE — The World Economic Forum (WEF) will hold its Asia Pacific Economic Summit here on September 11-13. Hundreds of top corporate executives and political leaders will meet to discuss the global implementation of
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