Accidental good
Writing more than a century ago, Frederick Engels commented that
the outcome of scientific and technological development always has unexpected
consequences. He gave the example of the discovery of alcoholic distillation
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BY CHRIS SLEE
MELBOURNE — Five hundred owner-drivers rallied on the steps of Parliament House on November 13. They parked their trucks in the street and blocked traffic for an hour. They were demanding that the Victorian Labor government's Fair
BY JIM GREEN
The human impact on climate change is more certain than ever before and the Earth's main surface temperature is predicted to rise further than previous estimates, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
The
BY KATHY NEWNAM
It will be worth watching the business section of the news on May 1, 2001, local Resistance organiser Sam King told a public meeting in Adelaide on November 11.
The meeting, organised by Resistance and the Democratic Socialist
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BY BRONWYN JENNINGS
BALLARAT — Bans imposed by trade union members at Ballarat University have broken the stalemate in negotiations between management and staff. The bans, which came into effect on November 13, were imposed on exam supervision
BY MARCE CAMERON
HAVANA — On November 14, a rally of 12,000 people took place outside the US interests section, Washington's unofficial embassy in Cuba. The rally was against the US blockade and was televised that night throughout Cuba and
BY MICHELLE BREAR& FEDERICO FUENTES
SYDNEY — Staff members and students from University of Western Sydney picketed all seven UWS campuses on November 9 in protest at the proposed restructuring of the university. The strike was the second held in
BY STEPHEN O'BRIEN
Any participants who hoped for a radical anti-globalisation message at the "Make it here or jobs disappear" November 15 rally in Newcastle would have been disappointed. The 3000-strong rally was billed as part of the movement
It is time for the opponents of Israel's colonialist war against the Palestinian people to mobilise in support of Palestinian Authority (PA) President Yasser Arafat's demand that a United Nations force be sent to protect the unarmed and defenceless
BY JONATHAN STRAUSS
The recent purchase by Foundation Health Care of the Medihelp medical centre chain means 1000 general practitioners, about 5% of all those in Australia, will be contracted to Foundation.
Foundation managing director Ken Jones
BY PIP HINMAN
Prime Minister John Howard, under pressure, once described the successive
Australian governments' approaches to East Timor as bipartisan wrong policy.
Yet this hasn't influenced his views on the self-determination struggle
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