News

  • Correction

    Green Left Weekly apologises for the error in issue #678 in which a photograph of Herman Wainggai was described as being of David Wainggai.

  • Loose cannons

    Monopoly capitalism at work "California Attorney General Bill Lockyer today announced the distribution of [US]$407,454 in refund checks to 701 California cancer patients who overpaid for the Bristol-Myers Squibb (Bristol) drug Taxol... The Taxol

  • Chile under Pinochet, or is this Australia?

    Dale Mills On August 15, a Melbourne Magistrates' Court heard that police investigators had formed the opinion that rogue police officers may have been behind the alleged abduction of a Muslim religious leader. Abdul Nacer Benbrika claimed that a

  • News briefs 2

    2 Coalition against racism formed PERTH — Up to 100 people attended a meeting on July 24 called by the Ethnic Communities Council in response to a spate of racist graffiti and vandalism. The attacks took place on July 17-19 and have been

  • Anti-whaling ship visits Melbourne

    Frances Evans, Melbourne "We're not a protest organisation, we're a law enforcement organisation. We're planning on shutting down the Japanese whaling industry", Peter Hammarstedt, coordinator of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS), told a

  • WA teachers reject five-year contracts

    Chris Latham, Perth On July 22, Australian Education Union WA school representatives condemned state education minister Allan Carpenter for planned unilateral changes to teachers' working conditions. On July 8, two days prior to the end of second

  • Prison bosses misled parliament

    SYDNEY — Acting NSW prisons commissioner Ian McLean misled parliament when he claimed that the women prisoners of the Emu Plains minimum security prison initiated reductions to their visiting hours, Brett Collins of Justice Action claimed on

  • Hospital workers resist contracting

    Hospital workers resist contractingMELBOURNE — Health Services Union (HSUA) members at the Austin Hospital voted on November 11 to "commence a campaign of industrial action" until the hospital management agreed to a

  • Campaign to close Villawood gains momentum

    Ruth Ratcliffe, Sydney One hundred and fifty Sydney residents have signed on to a "community pledge" to offer sanctuary in their homes to people detained in Villawood detention centre. Rupen Savoulian, one of the campaign organisers, told Green

  • Queensland politicians ignore Indigenous issues

    Dave Riley, Brisbane Members of the Murri community and their supporters rallied and marched on September 1, in the week that the state inquest into the death in custody of Cameron Doomadgee on Palm Island on November 19, 2004, wound up. The inquest

  • Development threatens Harbour

    Justin Tutty, Darwin The latest instalment in the rapid industrialisation of Darwin is the proposal for a coastal industrial estate at Glyde Point, on the Gunn Point Peninsula — the eastern-most arm of Darwin Harbour. The proposal is vast by