HIH is not a bad apple
Public calls for a full-scale royal commission into the collapse of
failed insurance giant HIH are mounting. And so they should be it's high
time that the insurance industry was dragged kicking and screaming
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BY MATT EGAN
LISMORE â Nearly 40 people crammed into a caf on May 17 to hear about the newly-formed Socialist Alliance and help launch a local SA group.
Edda Lampis, of the International Socialist Organisation, outlined the crisis of
BY LYNDA HANSEN
BRISBANE — The International Women's Day Collective launched its abortion law repeal petition campaign at the May 7 Labour Day festivities in Musgrave Park.
The petition demands repeal of the Queensland criminal code sections
BY SEAN HEALY
Opponents of debt cancellation claim that such a move cannot happen because it would bankrupt the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. While such a result might be good news for the world's poor, such a claim is false.
BY CHRIS SLEE
MELBOURNE — Two hundred power workers and supporters gathered outside Nauru House on May 16, the first day of an Industrial Relations Commission hearing on Yallourn Energy's application for an arbitrated award that would take away
Vodaphone workers face sackings
MELBOURNE — Forty workers for telecommunications company Vodaphone turned up to what they thought would be an ordinary day of training on March 15, only to find themselves being marched out of the gates flanked by
BY HEBA SALEH
Ten days of rioting, beginning in late April, in the Algerian Berber-speaking region of Kabylia have led to the death of scores of demonstrators — all killed by the security forces' gunfire.
As ever in Algeria, there are no
BY SEAN HEALY
Let's face it, there can be few things worse than being compared to the epitome of bland, consumer capitalism. So when someone within the movement, especially someone as prominent as Naomi Klein, compares it to everyone's favourite
BY JAMES VASSILOPOULOS
More than half a million people have been displaced as a result of the war between the Sri Lankan government and Tamils in the country's north demanding self-determination. Diseases like malaria and tuberculosis are spreading
Three years after the chief of clothing giant Nike, Phil Knight, promised
to improve standards in the company's factories, its workers still continue
to suffer repression and poverty wages, a new report released on May 16
has found.
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