BY JIM GREEN
Federal environment minister Robert Hill announced on February 1 that he requires further detailed information before making a final decision on the Honeymoon uranium mine proposal.
The Honeymoon project, located 80km west of Broken
435
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — Green Left Weekly volunteers have vowed to defy attempts by Hobart City Council to prevent the paper being distributed in the Elizabeth Street Mall. Council officers directed two Green Left Weekly distributors to leave
BY JIM GREEN
Government delegates from 99 countries met in Shanghai, China, from January 17-20 to finalise and unanimously approve a report on climate change science, which presents new and deeper evidence of the human impact on the world's weather
BY ROBERT DARCY
New Zealand's Waterfront Workers Union (WWU) is locked in a major dispute with forestry giant Carter Holt Harvey (CHH) over the contracting of cheap labour to load log ships in South Island ports. Over the last three months pickets
BY SEAN HEALY
Suddenly all the triumphalism is gone and the erstwhile "Masters of the Universe" are sounding like whining rich kids whose snowboards have been taken away from them.
Over the last decade, the World Economic Forum's annual meeting,
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"The problem facing both leaders is that the more they try to distance themselves from each other, the more they are sounding the same." — Paul Coorey, the Adelaide Advertiser's chief political reporter comparing Prime Menzies John Howard
Write on: letters to the editor
Capitalist racketeers
On January 18 in the Brisbane Federal Court, a fire protection company
was fined five million dollars with $200,000 costs for price fixing with
7 other firms including James Hardie
BY JOHN PILGER
On the eve of an election campaign, the government of British Prime Minister Tony Blair is attempting, with mounting desperation, to suppress a scandal potentially greater than the arms-to-Iraq cover-up. This is the deaths of
BY JACQUI LEE
PERTH — The Democratic Socialist Party's candidates in the February 10 Western Australian state election are calling on their supporters to give their first preference votes to socialist and Green candidates and to return a Labor
BY SARAH PEART
MELBOURNE — "The task facing us is to build a worthy sequel to S11 on May 1 that will strengthen and advance the movement, organisationally and ideologically", M1 Alliance spokesperson and Democratic Socialist Party activist Jackie
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