BY NORM DIXON
Television viewers across the world could be forgiven for believing
that rural Britain has been struck down by a plague of biblical proportions.
Nightly, as the foot and mouth disease (FMD) crisis unfolded, breathless
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BY JIM MCILROY
BRISBANE — Long-distance truck owner-drivers have blockaded major transport depots on Brisbane's southside, and have forced major companies to sign up to improvements in payments and conditions, according to Transport Workers Union
BY SEAN HEALY
A major international trade union confederation has told the World Trade Organisation that, in its view, the trade body has learned nothing from the defeat of attempts to launch a new, comprehensive round of trade talks at its last
REVIEW BY JOHN TRACEY
BRISBANE — Theresa Creed has just recorded her first album, Unfinished Business, at Ando's Kitchen recording studio on the Gold Coast. It will be released through 4ZZZ's Zedhead Records later this year.
Creed was born at
Getting Justice Wrong: Myths Media and CrimeBy Nicholas CowderyAllen & Unwin, 2001$19.95
BY KAREN FLETCHER
Law and order politics have been the ticket to success for many an ignorant and talent-less politician or media "commentator". A really
BY KIM BULLIMORE
SYDNEY — Thirty-five people, including members of the Indigenous Student Network from New South Wales and ACT, Arbunna elder Kevin Buzzacott and elder Ray Jackson, attended the newly formed Indigenous Solidarity Action Collective
Enlightenment or control
A few years ago Clifford Stoll wrote The Cuckoo's Egg, an
account of his attempts to track down some network hackers taking advantage
of university computer networks to look at low security US military sites.
BY EVA CHENG
Five hundred Chinese workers in Israel have been on strike since late March, demanding they be paid two years' worth of unpaid wages, even though Chinese authorities have threatened them with seven years' imprisonment if they
Into the Heart of the Fire: The British in the Spanish Civil WarBy James K. HopkinsStanford University Press, 2000 474 pages, $44.95 (pb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
It was a desperate time. It called for desperate measures. When General Franco, aided
BY JIM GREEN
Corporate polluters have enrolled powerful allies in their efforts
to prevent restrictions on the emissions of greenhouse gases politicians,
bureaucrats, public relations firms, corporate front groups, conservative
A recurring issue at CHOGM has been the homophobic comments by some of its members. Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe grabbed the world's attention on this issue when he described gay men and lesbians as "pigs and dogs" at the CHOGM in Durban in
BY ARUN PRADHAN
MELBOURNE — Footscray residents, members of the Socialist Alliance, refugees, Victorian University staff and students and migrants originally from Egypt, Chile, Somalia, India and Papau New Guinea came together on May 10 for the
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