BY SEAN HEALY
As if the World Trade Organisation's Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights agreement wasn't stringent enough, a new study of bilateral trade treaties has found that many contain even stronger protections of corporations'
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BY NICK EVERETT
SYDNEY — The 350 workers employed by the Marrickville-based car components maker TriStar Steering and Suspension won victory on August 8 in their dispute over pay and the protection of their entitlements. Militant action forced
Who's Afraid of the Working Class?Written by Andrew Bovell, Patricia Cornelius, Melissa Reeves and Christos TsiolkasDirected by Tanya DennyNew Theatre, Sydney
Playing until September 1
REVIEW BY BRENDAN DOYLE
"Strong language", the program
Fascinating bore
"In a boring way, he's fascinating" — comment on Prime Menzies John Howard by "one of his closest advisers", reported in the August 4-5 Australian Financial Review.
Prefers being hostage to financiers
"I would imagine that if
Stott Despoja
Political spin doctoring does have its limitations not the least being that facts are often so easily verifiable by reference to documents of record such as Hansard.
Alison Dellit compounds her initial errors of fact and analysis in
BY SARAH PEART
MELBOURNE — "We need to fight in the factories and in the communities to build a new international movement that is strong enough to take on the bosses' system", Martin Mitterhauser, an anti-corporate activist just back from last
BY KAMALA EMANUEL
Tasmanian abortion services may be set to improve, with health minister Judy Jackson offering to investigate the possibility of public funding for the establishment of a new abortion clinic. This is a significant victory for
These are born in your children. They go fishing. They shake everything out. Once there were men and women who tried to hide history, to bury it in the bed of the sea where they believed sound sleep possible. Their hands were huge but not real. They
BY MAX LANE
Militant trade union leader and former political prisoner Dita Sari has been awarded the Raymond Magsaysay Award, considered an Asian Nobel Prize, for being a "leader of new forces in Asia".
The chairperson of the Indonesian National
The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) has won a significant victory in the industrial dispute at the Sydney car parts manufacturer TriStar. The immediate issue was the safeguarding of workers' entitlements.
In the face of an intense
Rio Tinto
Wherever we operate, we work as closely as possible with our hosts,
respecting laws and customs minimising, adverse impacts and ensuring transfer
of benefits and enhancement of opportunities. Rio Tinto 2000 Annual
Review.
Starting From ZeroA documentary by Mandy King & Fabio CavadiniScreening on SBS, Friday, August 17, 8.30pm
REVIEW BY FIONA CROCKFORD
Starting from Zero profiles the return home in October 1999 of three East Timorese exiles following the decisive
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