BY SAM OLUKOYA
ABITEYE, Niger delta Abiteye village lies in the heart of the Niger Delta region. American oil giant ChevronTexaco has a gas plant and an oil flow station here.
But for its oil installations, the company's premises could pass
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BY JEREMY SMITH
BALLARAT Progressives have done well in the July 10-22 National Tertiary Education Industry Union (NTEU) elections. In the poll for national office bearers, the incumbents were returned.
Carolyn Allport was returned as
BY RAY FULCHER
MELBOURNE More 100 people attended the 'War on Terrorism': Democracy
Under Challenge conference in Melbourne on August 9. The conference was
hosted by the Victoria University law school and supported by the Federation
of
BY PETER SYKES
[Former Queensland Democrats state leader Peter Sykes knows all about compliance committees and getting the boot for speaking his mind. Now a veteran of the Australian Greens, he follows up his April 1998 GLW article which asked,
BY SARAH STEPHEN
Since the MV
Tampa incident one year ago, a broad and vibrant protest movement
has developed. It is matched by no other social movement in recent years.
The movement has swelled well beyond the ranks of those who have
BY NICOLE HOYE
BRISBANE Construction of Steritech's food irradiation facility
at Narangba has resumed after police broke a protest picket on August 13.
No work had been done at the site since 200 people picketed on August 7.
The
BY SUE BULL
MELBOURNE As the Royal Commission into the Building and Construction Industry began sitting again in Melbourne, a union leader has been threatened with imprisonment, a former union leader has condemned union activities and 5000
BY ANDREW HALL
CANBERRA The 30-year-old symbol of the fight for Indigenous justice, the Aboriginal Tent Embassy on the lawns in front of Old Parliament House, is facing serious threats of removal.
This follows hard on the heels of the July
BY VIRGINIA BROWN
PERTH "Today, men are the only standing target. It is no longer permissible to take potshots at women. A few decades of lobbying by women activists has taken care of that. But men are still fair game for television
BY TERRICA STRUDWICK
South African-based fast food chain Nando's has come under fire for a radio advertisement that mocks the desperate situation refugees face in Australian detention centres.
The ad, which was pulled after a deluge of
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