BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — While it poses as the heroic opponent of federal government support for genetically modified organisms, the Tasmanian Labor government is yet to take any concrete measures against it, or even against controversial
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FIJI: 'Parachute journalism' aids plotters' propaganda
DAVID ROBIE, a respected commentator on Pacific island affairs and now head of the journalism program at the University of the South Pacific in Suva, spoke to Green Left Weekly's NICK FREDMAN.
Correction
In the last issue of GLW (#411), the article titled "Tasmanian upper house stymies land rights" includes comments from Clyde Mansell from the Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania. This is a different organisation from the Tasmanian
P&O wharfies reject new "death bonus"
BY ROBERT DARCY
SYDNEY â Waterside workers at P&O Ports' White Bay site have labelled as a "death bonus" a new bonus scheme brought in with less than a week's notice and without consultation with
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Statistics as tragedies
BY SEAN HEALY
The HDR 2000 is primarily a statistical compilation, with pages and pages of tables. But amongst the statistics are real tragedies:
In Afghanistan, 94% of the country's 21.3 million people have no access to
Making a living? Having a life?
BY JONATHAN SIGNER
Did the living standards and quality of life of workers improve in the 1990s? The answer is dependent on two questions: what goods and services could they access from their disposable incomes and
BY MARGARET ALLUM
The list of the world's richest 200 women has been released, and a big shock it was to those of us who had expected to see our very own monarch in top spot, at least among the royal women in contention. But no, our Lizzie
Students, staff demand VC resignation
BY ROHAN PEARCE
HOBART — Students and staff at the University of Tasmania have called for the resignation of the vice-chancellor, Don McNichol. One hundred and fifty students and staff marched on the VC's
Urban guerillas confront injustice
Urban GuerillasJust a LifetimeMad in AustraliaCloud Above my HeadSelf-releasedOrder at <http://www.arch.su.edu.au/~stewa_k/Lyrics.htm> REVIEW BY ROBBIE CASEY
Marchers in this year's May Day parade in
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