NSW Labor's commuter chaos
BY SAM WAINWRIGHT
SYDNEY — "CityRail regrets to announce ...". Before the details are even out, you can feel the atmosphere on the platform thicken with anger and exasperation. What is it this time: signal failure,
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The Korean War: a war of counter-revolution
SEOUL — Fifty years after the outbreak of the Korean War, it is still seen as a war to defend peaceful South Korea against the aggressive ambitions of "totalitarian" North Korea. This theme dominated
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — While it poses as the heroic opponent of federal government support for genetically modified organisms, the Tasmanian Labor government is yet to take any concrete measures against it, or even against controversial
More than 300 villagers were killed on July 10 in Adeje, near Warri, in Nigeria's Niger Delta region, in a oil pipeline explosion. It was the latest in a string of disasters in the oil-rich region. In May, 27 residents of nearby Okwadjeba village
Correction
In the last issue of GLW (#411), the article titled "Tasmanian upper house stymies land rights" includes comments from Clyde Mansell from the Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania. This is a different organisation from the Tasmanian
P&O wharfies reject new "death bonus"
BY ROBERT DARCY
SYDNEY â Waterside workers at P&O Ports' White Bay site have labelled as a "death bonus" a new bonus scheme brought in with less than a week's notice and without consultation with
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FIJI: 'Parachute journalism' aids plotters' propaganda
DAVID ROBIE, a respected commentator on Pacific island affairs and now head of the journalism program at the University of the South Pacific in Suva, spoke to Green Left Weekly's NICK FREDMAN.
Making a living? Having a life?
BY JONATHAN SIGNER
Did the living standards and quality of life of workers improve in the 1990s? The answer is dependent on two questions: what goods and services could they access from their disposable incomes and
BY MARGARET ALLUM
The list of the world's richest 200 women has been released, and a big shock it was to those of us who had expected to see our very own monarch in top spot, at least among the royal women in contention. But no, our Lizzie
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