BY EVA CHENG
The world's automobile industry is headed for big trouble again. Having triggered each of the eight recessions in the United States since the second world war, the US auto industry is plagued once again by a crisis of
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The media coverage of Pauline Hanson has certainly built the following of One Nation. The media focus on Hanson during the lead up to elections in Western Australia and Queensland was astonishing.
Following WA election night, the journalism in the
BY NORM DIXON
"I want someone to explain to me why it isn't called murder", said Stephen Lewis, former deputy director of the United Nations Children's Fund, in an article in the January 26 Toronto Globe and Mail. Lewis was commenting on the fact
BY LISA MACDONALD
SYDNEY — In what will be the broadest left conference held in this city for many years, activists from the growing anti-corporate movement and a wide range of local campaigns will gather at the University of Technology's Markets
BY TONY ILTIS
MELBOURNE — Two hundred and fifty people packed Trades Hall on March 8 to discuss the struggle of the Latrobe Valley power workers against attempts by Yallourn Energy and other privatised electricity corporations to slash jobs,
BY TRISHA REIMERS
Big Kev is excited — and he should be, because he's discovered that, just like sex, nationalism sells (in his case, sells cleaning products).
Big Kev is just another Aussie capitalist who's telling workers that they should
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The new buzz word of the internet is P2P. This stands for peer-to-peer,
and refers to the swapping of information between two people connected
to the internet via their personal computers.
P2P follows B2C (business to
The financial markets comprise many interlocking markets in different financial instruments. These are the basic ones:
Shares: A share is a tradeable certificate of part-ownership of a company listed on a stock exchange. A shareholder owns a part
BY ZANNY BEGG
SYDNEY — Fred Nile's prayers for rain may have been answered but his prayers to halt this year's Mardi Gras were not.
Between 400,000 and 500,000 people lined Oxford Street to watch the annual Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade.
Resistance high school students' magazine focuses on M1
DARWIN — Following a successful first edition of Student Underground, which contained news on local International Women's Day events and East Timor solidarity, Resistance members here are
BY SEAN WALSH
MELBOURNE — The Port Phillip Action Group got more than they bargained for on February 25, when its "Resident Street Walk Against Street Prostitution and Drugs" through the streets of seaside St Kilda was met with 50
BY NORM DIXON
Following the lead of Brazil and South Africa, Kenya announced on March 6 that it plans to relax its patent laws to enable its population to buy cheaper drugs to fight HIV/AIDS.
Health minister Sam Ongeri said he would introduce a
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