Alex Tighe, Adelaide
Months of rumour and doubt over the future of two Mitsubishi car plants in Adelaide have been put to rest with an announcement by the parent company Daimler-Chrysler that the Lonsdale plant will be closed down in 18 months.
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In the wake of the still unfolding Abu Ghraib prisoner torture scandal, a voter backlash against Australia's participation in the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq appears to be burying the Coalition government's re-election prospects.
An AC
Doug Lorimer
On June 30, the US-British Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) that currently rules Iraq will hand over governance of the country to a new US embassy headed by John Negroponte. This embassy will be staffed by 1200 US officials and
Global warming: The world is skating on thin ice
Norm Dixon
Hollywood’s latest blockbuster, The Day After Tomorrow,
has triggered the release of vast amounts of hot air from
Otways
Whatever did the premier of Victoria mean by saying at the last Victorian election that he was saving the Otways? The latest draft Otways plan says the Geelong and Warrnambool water catchments in the Otways forest will continue to be
Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the WorldBy Greg CritserAllen Lane, London, 2003232 pages, $29.95 (pb)
REVIEW BY ALEX MILLER
In a gruesome passage in chapter 10 of the first volume of Capital, Marx wrote of the "incredible
Nick Markin
Most shoppers probably know two things about Aldi supermarkets — they are from Germany and they promise "everyday low prices". Few people have any idea of the secretive anti-union empire that lurks behind the Aldi name.
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CARACAS â According to Venezuelan vice-president Jose Vicente Rangel, 130 individuals have been detained after a group of 70 Colombian paramilitary on May 9. Several dozen people have been presented before military judges, including 13 men captured
Doug Lorimer
Ahmad Chalabi, who up until a few months ago had been the Bush administration's favourite to head Washington's puppet regime in Iraq, now stands accused of duping the US into invading Iraq.
On May 18, US deputy defence secretary Paul
Kamala Emanuel, Hobart
The battle to save Tasmania's forests can and must be won. All the arguments of those who justify the forests' destruction are thin, held together by tacit support for the right of a rich minority to profit at the expense of
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