Federal Minister for Community Services Larry Anthony said on January 18 that he was "appalled" by the statistics that reveal one separated man suicides every day in this country. He was emphasising support for the federal government's $16.5 million
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BY VIV MILEY
Labor leader Kim Beazley launched his plan for a "knowledge nation" at the National Press Club on January 24. At its core is a proposal to establish a University of Australia Online which would enrol an additional 100,000 undergraduate
BY MELANIE SJOBERG
Rubbing shoulders with the 3200 corporate and political heavyweights at the World Economic Forum summit in Davos, Switzerland, was one lone Australian trade union official: ACTU president Sharan Burrow. Maybe she thought it was a
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
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