US ministers to run Cuba blockade By Stephen Marks The Interreligious Foundation of Community Organisations and Pastors For Peace are planning to run the US blockade against Cuba. A caravan of 45 vehicles from nine US cities will carry
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By Rob Steven The last two or three years have seen one of the most spectacular changes ever in the functioning of international big business. Almost all of the world's top 10 banks are now Japanese. The bulk of foreign investment moving
Powell meets NZ Alliance By Peter Anderson Independent Victorian Senator Janet Powell left for New Zealand on November 13 to address the conference of the Alliance about right-wing industrial relations policies, and to share information about
Vigil mourns death of democracy By Sean Lennon and Pip Hinman MELBOURNE — A vigil began on the steps of Parliament House at 11 p.m. on November 12 to mark the passing into law of the Employee Relations Act. The ERA was passed by parliament
By Tom Jordan and Norm Dixon The Papua New Guinea Defence Force has suffered significant setbacks in central Bougainville, the defending Bougainville Revolutionary Army has claimed. In the most important incident, BRA militants recaptured the
By Liam Mitchell ADELAIDE — The South Australian Labor Party State Council meeting on November 12 voted to sacrifice workers' compensation in order to avoid facing an early poll and likely defeat at the hands of an electorate which has
Motivated "I've always felt that trying to help Haiti was a noble thing. I've taken on a number of unpopular clients. That's why I got a law degree." — US lobbyist Robert McCandless, on his US$165,000-a-year fee for representing the Haitian
Telecom privatisation It was not surprising to read that the man who gave Sydney a white elephant at Darling Harbour and a leaky monorail is now following a much bigger quarry, the privatisation of Telecom. One of Labor's "mates", Laurie
By Kaye Dixon At seven years old, when visiting the city from Mallacouta, Sal Rees practised drop kicks with her grandfather in the backyard at Coburg. Her grandfather, Henry Flogg and her father, Don Rees, played football for Brunswick.
Protests commemorate Dili massacre Demonstrations in many Australian cities on November 12 and the following Saturday marked the first anniversary of the massacre of East Timorese civilians at the Santa Cruz cemetery in Dili by Indonesian