BY PAUL PRITCHARD
HOBART — Deep in the forest, from the vantage point of a rickety bridge, spanning a lazy river black with tannin, some of the vegetation is as it would have appeared 60 million years ago.
Myrtle, sassafras, celery-top pine,
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BY EVA CHENG
The strains on Washington's close, seven-decade relationship with Saudi Arabia burst into the open last August when the Washington Post revealed that US war secretary Donald Rumsfeld's Defense Policy Board (DPB) on July 10 had
BY JIM MCILROY
Members of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) have voted by 61% to 39% in favour of a resolution from the union's Centrelink Section Council to endorse a new enterprise bargaining agreement, which will now be put to an
BY
SUE BOLTON
PERTH Of the 392 adverse findings that the building industry royal
commission made against Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union,
two-thirds were directed against the Western Australian branch of the union.
Does
REVIEW
BY SARAH STEPHEN
No Blood for Oil: Australian Voices for Peace
Various artists
Order a copy of listen to sample tracks at <http://www.indie-cds.com>
No Blood for Oil brings together a varied and interesting
collection of
BY AMY PARISH
On April 11, the University of Wollongong's council appointed George Maltby as chairperson of the Illawarra Technology Corporation (ITC), the corporate arm of the UOW.
Maltby was already chairperson of Thales International Pacific
BY SARAH STEPHEN
With chaos, violence and a humanitarian crisis in Iraq, the Australian government is wasting no time in preparing to send Iraqi refugees home. Immigration minister Philip Ruddock told Channel Nine's Sunday program on April 13 that
BY
EMMA MURPHY
BAXTER After months of planning, on April 18-20 up to 800 people
from across Australia converged on the Baxter detention centre outside
Port Augusta, to protest against the mandatory detention of asylum seekers,
and show
BY
PATRICK BOND
The rift between the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and the
Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) over privatisation has
deepened substantially since January, when Pretoria launched the full sale
of the
The United Nations
Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) on April 15 condemned Israel for its mass
killing of Palestinians and its construction of illegal settlements in
the occupied territories. The United States government was the only
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