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BY DALE MILLS SYDNEY — "If you're under 30 and born in an Australian hospital, there is a permanent record of your blood which can be used for DNA profiling" a forum was told on July 17. The meeting, titled "A Critical Forum on Surveillance and
David Bradbury replies Your review of Fond Memories of Cuba (GLW #500) is what reluctantly I have come to expect of the dogmatic left response your paper has on too many issues that vitally concern all progressive and left minded people in
BY NICK FREDMAN LISMORE — At a breakfast function for businesspeople here on July 18, deputy prime minister John Anderson was met by banners, placards and twenty-five chanting people opposing the government's policy of the mandatory detention of
US President George Bush needs another bloody Gulf War to win the mid-term US Congress elections in November. The serious shooting may start before or after that election, but the troops and the multi-billion dollar killing machines are already
On July 21, hundreds of Green Left Weekly supporters around the country gathered to celebrate the production of the 500th issue of GLW. Pictured is Akasha performing at the GLW fiesta in Melbourne. Photo by Peter Johnston. From Green
BY TERRICA STRUDWICK TOWNSVILLE — Indonesian trade union leader Dita Sari was one of 29 Third World women activists denied a visa to attend the annual International Women's Conference and the Network of Women Students Australia (NOWSA) conference
Acclaimed British director Ken Loach's latest film, The Navigators, deals with the experiences of a group of South Yorkshire railway track workers coping with the privatisation of British Rail. The Navigators reveals the "view from below" as the
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all"> The Oscar Wilde they never quote REVIEW BY STUART MUNCKTON The Importance of Being EarnestDirected Oliver ParkerStarring Rupert Everett, Colin Firth and Dame Judi
BY ALEJANDRO RODRIGUEZ In April 2000, Aguas de Tanari, a large multinational corporation, was due to take over the privatised water works in Cochabamba. Water prices were to increase and laws were passed to make it illegal to catch and use rain
BY LIAM MITCHELL SYDNEY — With the strike at Dayson’s Rydalmere airconditioning re-manufacturing plant entering its ninth week, the company is under considerable pressure to end the dispute. The 12 workers on strike have told supporters
BY SEAN MARTIN-IVERSON PERTH — After a week of coordinated industrial action, 2000 WA enrolled nurses have won a significant pay increase. Enrolled nurses in Perth's major public hospitals, organised in the Liquor, Hospitality & Miscellaneous
BY MARIA VOUKELATOS BRISBANE — On July 18, a 1500-strong rally of health workers marched to Parliament House demanding fair wages and conditions. Solidarity stop-work meetings happened simultaneously at major health centres across the