BY ANTHEA STUTTER
HOBART — The announcement on the eve of International Women's Day that the Women's Health Foundation (Abortion Clinic) will be closing has raised questions about the ongoing access of women in Tasmania to necessary health care.
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BY JOHN NEBAUER
ADELAIDE — Five hundred construction workers marched on the offices of state workplace relations minister Robert Lawson here on March 8, angry that five of their colleagues have been killed on Adelaide building sites already this
BY IGGY KIM
PARIS — A delegation from the Daewoo Workers' Joint Struggle Committee arrived here on February 23 to internationalise their current struggle against the bankrupt South Korean automobile manufacturer.
The delegation is made up of Yu
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
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
BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS
MELBOURNE — Representatives of the International Socialist Organisation, Democratic Socialist Party, Freedom Socialist Party, Workers' Liberty, Workers' Power, Socialist Democracy, the Progressive Labor Party and the Worker
BY PETER GELLERT
MEXICO CITY â The Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) is marching on Mexico City to publicise the plight of Mexico's indigenous peoples and to press its demand for adoption of the San Andres peace accords to put an end to
BY SUE BOLAND
The Democrats' leadership battle between current leader Senator Meg Lees and challenger Senator Natasha Stott Despoja was sparked by the party's poor results in the recent Western Australian and Queensland state elections where they
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.
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 TOM WILSON
The Native Forests Network recently conducted a bus tour of the old growth forests of Tasmania's Huon Valley. This was their response to Forestry Tasmania's advertising blitz which urged people to "gather as much information as
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
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