BY JIM GREEN
The Australian Conservation Foundation's recently released document "Natural Advantage: A Blueprint for a Sustainable Australia" provides a forward-looking vision for a clean, green economy and, in the process, renders obsolete the
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BY PETER BOYLE
An important aspect of the September 11-13 protests (S11) against the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Melbourne — which made them politically more advanced than the earlier Seattle and Washington protests — was the relative
BY TIM STEWART
More than a few Brisbane unionists added their name to the S11 campaign, inviting speakers to address delegate meetings and pitching in money towards sending buses to Melbourne for the blockade of the World Economic Forum meeting,
Private privilege
Not owning a BMW is bearable. But having untreated health problems or missing out on a good education can really disadvantage you.
Private privilege in health and education is more repugnant than in most other areas. This is
SYDNEY — The Anin Murak choir, from East Timor's devastated Dili region, is touring NSW. Money raised will go to an education fund to support the young singers, who have no school facilities in their district. The tour is being organised with the
BY TONY ILTIS& SUSAN PRICE
MELBOURNE — Labor Premier Steve Bracks had lied about protester violence at the S11 blockade of the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting, a protest of 200 outside the ALP's state conference on October 21 was told.
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BY KAREN FLETCHER
On September 10, the eve of the blockade of the World Economic Forum meeting at Crown Casino in Melbourne, the S11 marshals (myself included) took a "tour" of the blockade site. I soon got talking to a Crown employee on her way to
REVIEW BY BILL NEVINS
Angel of New OrleansDavid RoeRoyal Rags Records, New Orleans<davidroe111@email.msn.com>
If you are wandering New Orleans' French Quarter streets, you will likely come upon what seems to be a statue of an angel, all
BY BEN COURTICE
MELBOURNE — Plant operators at the Qenos refinery in Altona, owned by oil giant ExxonMobil, have been locked out of work in a dispute over staffing levels.
Management at the plant, formerly called Kemcor, wanted to put a clause
The Israeli military machine's current repression against unarmed Palestinian civilians protesting against the Jewish state's colonial occupation of their national homeland has been so brutal that even Israel's chief sponsor, the United States, felt
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