Who knows internet business?
The purpose of business is profits. A few years ago that would
have been a controversial statement, drawing replies of companies invest
for the national good or something similar. Today every government and
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BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — Retail workers at the K&D chain of hardware stores grudgingly voted to accept an enterprise agreement on January 22 that offered a pay increase of less than 4.5% a year in exchange for an erosion of conditions,
BY MAX LANE
In an escalation of tensions between President Abdurrahman Wahid and right-wing forces in the country's parliament, a full session of the DPR, the Indonesian house of representatives, voted almost unanimously on February 2 to accept a
BY ISAM AL-KHAFAJI
When Turkey sent 10,000 soldiers into northern Iraq in late December, the event passed almost unnoticed by the international media. Turkish incursions into Iraqi Kurdistan have become routine.
As on previous occasions, Turkish
BY BILL MASON
BRISBANE — Traditional dances were performed outside Cairns District Court on January 31 to celebrate the acquittal of two Torres Strait Islanders charged with robbing a group of commercial fishers.
Benjamin Ali Nona and George
BY NORM DIXON
Palestinians have submitted a report to the United Nations saying weapons used by Israel to quell the four-month-old intifada in Palestine contained depleted uranium, the January 19-20 Jordan Times reported.
The Palestine Liberation
BY STEPHEN MARKS
NEWCASTLE — Thanks to international working-class solidarity, 160 Southland Colliery workers near Cessnock are reported to have won their entitlements back after the collapse of the Colrack Group on January 10.
Colrack's parent
PORTO ALEGRE — The World Social Forum was awash with debates. Lack of space prevents anything like a full account of these (some of which will be covered in future issues of Green Left Weekly), but among the most important were:
The state of the
BY NORM DIXON
An international gathering of scientists in Shanghai mid-January presented a report revealing that global warming caused by the emission of greenhouse gases could result in the atmosphere's temperature rising by almost 6°C by
BY BARBARA WHELAN
PERTH — Residents of Burt Way, East Perth are outraged over Perth City Council's plan to demolish the housing in their street to make way for luxury high rise apartments.
Local resident Karen Kinsett told Green Left Weekly
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