BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — Shipbuilder Incat has been forced by the Industrial Relations Commission to back off from attempts to impose on its workers the "choice" of a four-day week or 200 redundancies.
Incat has a legally binding agreement,
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Most internet business are facing financial crises today, a year
after the dotcom bubble burst. Even the infrastructure companies, those
that manufacture the boxes and phone lines, software and PCs that connect
people
BY ANGELA LUVERA
SYDNEY — Angry at the imprisonment of asylum seekers in its detention camps, more than 150 protesters descended on the offices of Australasian Correctional Management offices early on the morning of May 17.
The protest to "shut
Colombia — Peace at what prices?Written & directed by Anne O'CaseyRunning time 40 minutes, $20Available from CISLAC (PO Box A431 Sydney South NSW 2000; web site: <http://www.cislac.org.au>)
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BY DICK NICHOLS
There are hundreds of thousands of people in this country who know full well that since 1996 John Howard and Peter Costello have simply been carrying on the pro-corporate policies of the Hawke and Keating Labor governments of the
BY JOHN PILGER
The other day, I attended a conference at the University of Sussex on the "new imperialism". What was extraordinary was that it took place at all. Julian Saurin, who teaches in the school of African and Asian studies at Sussex, said
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
Josh White: Society BluesBy Elijah WaldUniversity of Massachusetts Press, 2000336 pp, $69 (hb)
Josh White is the forgotten singer of progressive blues and folk in the United States. Common coin has it that his obscurity is
HIH is not a bad apple
Public calls for a full-scale royal commission into the collapse of
failed insurance giant HIH are mounting. And so they should be it's high
time that the insurance industry was dragged kicking and screaming
BY MATT EGAN
LISMORE â Nearly 40 people crammed into a caf on May 17 to hear about the newly-formed Socialist Alliance and help launch a local SA group.
Edda Lampis, of the International Socialist Organisation, outlined the crisis of
BY SEAN HEALY
Opponents of debt cancellation claim that such a move cannot happen because it would bankrupt the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. While such a result might be good news for the world's poor, such a claim is false.
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