For the first time that anyone can remember, an International Women's Day march and rally is being organised in the Central Queensland coastal city of Rockhampton, sometimes referred to as the "beef capital" of Australia. One of the key organisers of
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BY MAX LANE
Despite the humiliating forced resignation of Indonesian President Suharto in May 1998, the political machine that he built during his 33-year reign has remained virtually intact.
Suharto's son may be on the run from a prison sentence
BY GERALDINE CAHILL
MELBOURNE — Every year, community radio station 3CR serves a feast of women's programming, music and performance to celebrate International Women's Day. This year, 3CR's banquet will bigger than ever. It will kick off at
BY KATHY NEWNAM & REBECCA MECKELBURG
ADELAIDE — Declaring that "M1 will pick up where S11 left off in building the people's movement for global justice", M1 Adelaide served a "Notice of Closure" on the Australian Stock Exchange on March 1. The
BY SEAN HEALY
"An absolutely classic emerging market panic" was one Western investment banker's cold-blooded diagnosis, but for 65 million citizens of Turkey the February 22 collapse of their currency, the lira, was a disaster which may rival in
BY ROBYN MARSHALL
BRISBANE — Every square inch of green space is precious in the overdeveloped, inner city ghettoes — which may be why 150 people turned out on February 24 to protest the building of more townhouses on one such area of green
Union delegate sacked
MELBOURNE — Australian Manufacturing Workers Union members at the McConnell Dowell concrete silo construction site in Fisherman's Bend walked off the job on February 27 after their new shop steward, Jose Zuniga, was
BY MELANIE SJOBERG
Representatives of the Daewoo Motor workers' struggle committee and Korean Confederation of Trade Unions have launched an international campaign to arrest Kim Woo-Choong, former chairperson of the Daewoo group of companies. They
BY NORM DIXON
Munyaradzi Gwisai, the leading member of the International Socialist Organisation who was elected to Zimbabwe's national parliament last June under the banner of the trade union-backed Movement for Democratic Change, has survived
BY SUE BOLAND
The quality of the majority of women's lives in the next few years will largely hinge on the success or failure of the international movement against neo-liberal globalisation.
Neo-liberal policies such as privatisation of
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