Boom years
"More than 60% of all US companies paid no federal tax at all during the boom years of 1996 to 2000, the [US Congress's] General Accounting Office reports." — MSN Money website.
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#4 Melbourne Social Forum MELBOURNE — The first Melbourne Social Forum will be held on November 28, strengthening the city's links to the global anti-capitalist movement. Speakers at the event, to be held at the Ceres environmental park in
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Kathy Newnam, Darwin Opposition to the planned US-Australia military training centres in Queensland and the Northern Territory continues to grow. Following his participation in US defence and Pentagon briefings, former senior ANZUS treaty advisor
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Lachlan Malloch, Sydney Indian writer and anti-globalisation campaigner Arundhati Roy exhorted a packed Seymour Centre audience on the evening of November 3 to bring home the resistance to the US-led occupation of Iraq by boycotting the products of
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Michelle Brear, Sydney The world's biggest teddy bear joined staff, students and kids at a 150-strong rally on November 11 at the University of New South Wales to demand that the university urgently act on the enormous childcare waiting lists at
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Sarah Stephen, Sydney The immigration department must have changed its mind at the last moment, because Sereana Naikelekele wasn't on the flight from Sydney that arrived in Fiji at 6.10pm on November 6, where Fijian police and airport officials
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Sue Bull, Geelong The Shell oil refinery in Geelong has once again been caught out polluting Corio Bay. On November 4, Shell failed to inform the Environmental Protection Agency that a spill had reached the bay and the company was initially very
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Kamala Emanuel & Anthea Stutter, Hobart Tasmanian Aborigines and their supporters are campaigning in favour of the Aboriginal Lands Act 2004, due before state parliament in November. The bill, introduced by the government, will hand back three Bass
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#2 La Trobe University evicts NTEU MELBOURNE — La Trobe University has served an eviction notice on the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU), demanding that it vacate its office on campus by December 31. Campus unionists believe this is
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#3 Small wins for asylum seekers Immigration minister Amanda Vanstone, who has fought for the strictest possible interpretations of the Migration Act, faced a small setback in the High Court on October 27. An Iranian asylum seeker who has
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Liam Mitchell, Sydney As train commuters struggle to get to work on time and home by a reasonable hour due to an unreliable, understaffed railway system, RailCorp management and the NSW Labor government continue to blame rail workers for the
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Alison Dellit Women across Australia marched to end violence against women on October 29. While the size of the annual Reclaim the Night marches has declined in capital cities in recent years, the number of marches is increasing, with more women