BY JIM GREEN
United States President George W. Bush and his administration have been condemned around the world for their March 29 announcement that the US will not ratify the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions.
The decision was
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BY BILL MASON
BRISBANE — Tensions are rising in the central Queensland coalfields as mine workers hold firm in their strike against BHP over a new enterprise agreement.
Around 1500 workers at six coalmines are involved in the dispute, which
BY EVA CHENG
More than 150 farmers and students dumped onions, soybeans, garlic and other products on the doorstep of a secretive regional meeting of the World Trade Organisation held in the northern city of Chiang Mai on March 27-28.
The move
BY PAUL BENEDEK
SYDNEY In the days following the escape by 14 refugees from the
Villawood detention centre on March 26, more than 50 homes of people who
had visited detainees were raided by officers from the Department of
BY ALISON DELLIT
"When I see people on TV who are starving, I just cry. I mean, I'd like to be that thin but not with all the flies and death and stuff." — Singer Mariah Carey, 1998.
Mariah Carey's sympathy for the hungry did not generate calls
BY ANDREW HALL
CANBERRA — Canberra Hospital and community care nurses again protested on March 27 as the stand-off with the ACT Liberal government and the independent health minister Michael Moore continued.
Australian Nursing Federation (ANF)
BY NORM DIXON
The protest action by rank and file Papua New Guinea Defence Force soldiers — described by the Australian capitalist press as a "mutiny" — came to an end on March 26. Following assurances that the PNG cabinet would abandon plans
BY NICK SOUDAKOFF
DARWIN — The M1 Alliance here launched its May 1 blockade of the Northern Territory Chamber of Commerce on March 23, drawing an overwhelming response from passers-by when they asked them to vote for who they thought should be
BY LAUREN CARROLL HARRIS
SYDNEY — High school students played an integral role in the organisation and co-ordination of last year's S11 (September 11-13) protest outside the Crown Casino in Melbourne, when 20,000 people mobilised to shut down the
BY VIV MILEY
The student association at the University of Technology, Sydney is embroiled in a legal wrangle with the university administration and is facing an uncertain future. The 2000 student association (SA) elections were declared
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