BY VANYA TANAJA
DILI — The "Draft Regulation on the Election of a Constituent Assembly to draft the Constitution of an Independent and Democratic East Timor" was presented to East Timor's National Council by the United Nations Transitional
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BY SEAN HEALY
The Australian Stock Exchange will cop a pasting on May 1, when thousands of anti-corporate protesters blockade its offices and surrounding streets. The major reason for protesters' choice of target is obvious — the stock exchange
BY TOM FLANAGAN
SYDNEY — The case of eight stonemasons, who were kept in a barbed wire enclosure and paid $145 a month, has highlighted the exploitation of foreign workers in Australia.
The stonemasons were brought to Australia from India as
CFMEU secures workers entitlements
SYDNEY — Sub-contractors working on luxury units at a Newport marina will be paid their entitlements despite their employer, Horvat Construction, leaving unpaid debts after going into voluntary liquidation.
@subh= Lucky only 5% us live in dwellings
"Ninety-five per cent of the economy showed good strong growth, but it was the 5% of the economy, namely, the dwelling part of the economy [that had caused the contraction]." — Treasurer Peter Costello
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
BY JACKIE LYNCH& AMANDA PEARSON
MELBOURNE — Fifty members and supporters of the Democratic Socialist Party and Resistance celebrated the opening of the DSP Melbourne northeast branch's new Resistance Centre on busy High Street, Northcote, on
Photo by Gail Lord.
On March 7 bus loads of members of the Worker Communist Party of Iraq,
the Worker Communist Party of Iran and their supporters held demonstrations
outside the Iraqi and Iranian embassies in Canberra. The
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
The real power in global financial markets rests with "institutional investors", the professional speculators:
Commercial banks: The traditional big boys of the financial world, commercial banks' basic business is retail: to pay depositors less
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