BY EVA CHENG
On November 4, Beijing removed a seven-year ban on foreigners' purchase of Chinese state enterprise shares listed on stock exchanges, opening the way for the privatisation of an estimated US$300 billion of state assets and more
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Nobody's safe from ASIO
"No country is absolutely safe for anybody but I just want to say to Australians of the Muslim faith, you are as protected and important part of our country as anyone else." — Prime Menzies John Howard, November 7.
Only
BY JIM GREEN
The federal government's plan to build a national nuclear dump in South Australia has hit another hurdle with the leaking of a document outlining plans for a $300,000 propaganda campaign in the coming months.
The Department of
BY TIM STEWART
BRISBANE In a last-ditch attempt to save Brisbane's inner-city
bushland from a private developer, activists led by the Gully Action Group
launched daily occupations and pickets of Highgate Hill Gully on October
21, when
And ain't i a woman: Laws continue to fail women
Recently, a woman in NSW was awarded $500,000 in damages for physical abuse she endured during her marriage. Because of the abuse, the woman suffers from deep vein thrombosis and has permanent
UN vote brings war closer
The unanimous vote by the 15 members of the United Nations Security
Council on November 8 to impose tough new weapons inspection rules and
deadlines for compliance on Iraq, with the threat of serious
BY JOHN PERCY
[The following letter was sent on November 7 on behalf of the national
executive of the Democratic Socialist Party (DSP) to the national executive
of the International Socialist Organisation (ISO).]
Dear comrades, we were
BY DAVID GLANZ
[The following
is the text of a letter sent on November 3 on behalf of the national executive
of the International Socialist Organisation (ISO) to the national executive
of the Democratic Socialist Party (DSP).]
Thank
BY PIP HINMAN
SYDNEY John
Pilger has confirmed he will speak at the Walk Against the War on November
30, the city's first major protest rally opposing the looming war on Iraq.
The protest has bought together anti-war, community,
BY KYLIE MOON
MELBOURNE The October 30 flag-burning action at Melbourne University, organised by Socialist Alternative, has attracted nationwide media attention, and much corporate media condemnation.
The 100-strong action involved the
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