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BY JIM MCILROY BRISBANE — "The movement to challenge corporate power is a growing and unstoppable force for fundamental change", said Adam Baker, one of the two Democratic Socialist Party (DSP) candidates standing in the Queensland elections on
BY MAX LANE During 2000, only the People's Democratic Party (PRD) championed the political slogan: "Smash the remnants of the New Order, leave behind the fake reformers". But now, following attempts by the party of former dictator Suharto and the
The Australian Bureau of Agricultural Resource Economics (ABARE) released its report on the outcome of dairy deregulation on January 30. It confirmed that in the six months since the final stage of dairy deregulation was implemented on July 1, 200
Silencing cyberspace? Really annoyed about something? Want to get your message across, but you don't own a newspaper, radio or television station? You can always buy a can of spray paint and find a local wall. That sounds simplistic,
Sensitive, new-age genocide acceptable "Israel may have been able to get away with a blatant process of ethnic displacement of millions of Palestinians from their homes in 1947, but this is 2001 and the world has been sensitised to such events."
BY SEAN HEALY The images appear thick and fast: a spaceship, a starving child, a computer, a barefoot peasant. The opening shots of a community TV documentary? No. The "Flash" intro sequence on an activist group's web site? No. This was the
Vigil for refugees MELBOURNE — The Refugee Action Alliance is to begin a weekly vigil at Maribyrnong detention centre from February 25, in the hope it will give people to an opportunity to see for themselves the situation of detained
BY LISA MACDONALD SYDNEY — M1 Sydney has adopted a “call to action”, seeking the endorsement and active participation of organisations and individuals in building the mass anti-corporate protests planned for May 1, which are focused on a
BY NORM DIXON The eminent barrister Horace Rumpole has often noted that the "golden thread running through the history of British justice" is that a defendant is innocent until proven guilty by the prosecution "beyond a reasonable doubt". Of
BY KIM BULLIMORE SYDNEY — Protesters picketed Sussan's fashion store in Pitt Street Mall on February 8, chanting "this sweat goes with clothes at Sussans". The picket was part of the campaign, an initiative of Fairwear, aimed at protecting

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