BY PHIL SHANNON
CANBERRA — Payroll services, including the production and delivery of fortnightly payslips, for staff in the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care have been outsourced during the previous year to a private company. In
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BY BRUNO RODRIGUEZ
[The following is an abridged version of a speech by Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuba's permanent representative to the United Nations, delivered at the UN General Assembly session on October 1, 2001.]
In a speech delivered just
BY SEAN HEALY
BRISBANE — Have you ever worried about what would happen to all the protests if the summits of world leaders suddenly stopped? Well, don't. On the evidence here in the last few days, the movement for global justice is still ready to
BY NICOLE COLSON & ERIC RUDER
Within a week of the attacks in New York and Washington, every major city in the US and many more towns and college campuses saw events of all kinds to oppose Bush's war drive and the tide of racist attacks on Arab
BY NORM DIXON
On September 26, police opened fire on protesting residents in Tafelsig, Cape Town, who had mobilised to prevent 1800 households' water supplies being cut off by the Cape Town Unicity council.
At least 15 people were wounded in the
BY ZANNY BEGG
SYDNEY — During the last six years the number of prisoners in NSW has risen by 21.3%. On September 2 NSW Premier Bob Carr announced a $162.5 million spending program on new jails which could lead to a further 16% increase in the
BY NICK FREDMAN
LISMORE — The first public discussion organised by the Lismore branch of the Socialist Alliance on the theme "Should the refugees stay?" on September 29 was a resounding success.
A highlight of the meeting was a statement sent
BY ALISON DELLIT
Since September 11, the Australian Muslim Public Affairs Committee has documented more than 300 incidents of abuse or harassment of Muslims in Australia, including:
A pregnant Muslim women having her head smashed against a metal
BY MALIK MIAH
SAN FRANCISCO — Some 5000-7000 people rallied here on September 29 to protest the US war drive in response to the September 11 terror attack that levelled the World Trade Center in New York City and badly damaged the Pentagon.
BY EVA CHENG
During 1999-2000, four of the Asian countries most seriously hit by the 1997-98 economic crisis — Indonesia, South Korea, Malaysia and Thailand — appeared to be recovering sharply. But things swiftly turned sour at the end of last
BY LESLIE RICHMOND
With South Australia's "non"-election campaign well underway, both Labor and the governing Liberals are scraping into each other's past records to convince voters to put them back into government next year.
The Liberals have
Racists hiding behind feminism
Since the September 11 mass murders in the United States, attacks on Muslims in Australia have dramatically increased. Nearly 90% of those reported have been upon women wearing the hijab (clothing worn by Muslims, for
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