BY KAMALA EMANUEL
HOBART — The usefulness of revolutionary solutions to "globalisation" featured prominently in the discussion at the June 13 public forum organised by the M1 Alliance. This was despite the fact that only one of the featured
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REVIEW BY MARGARET ALLUM
Lost and DeliriousDirected by Lea PoolWith Mischa Barton, Piper Perabo and Jessica PareScreening at the Sydney Film Festival, State Theatre and Dendy Opera Quays, until June 22
Mary "Mouse" Bradford (played by Mischa
Corporate collapses: Make the rich pay
BY ALISON DELLIT
It has not been a good two months for the old boys of the elite
Cranbrook School in the affluent Sydney suburb of Point Piper. Following
the collapse of insurance giant HIH, 1976
BY PIP HINMAN
For one and a half days, from the morning of June 7, the Asia Pacific People's Solidarity Conference, held a holiday resort outside Jakarta, had been proceeding relatively smoothly. Eighty Indonesian democracy activists and more than
BY BRONWYN REES-ALLEN & LINDA WALDRON
MELBOURNE — On June 8 a large contingent from the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) joined 250 protesters outside the Nike superstore in Swanston Street. The presence of the militant union
German Greens
Since your paper didn't get much feedback on your provocative April 11
front page headline German
Greens betray anti-nuclear movement, and the accompanying article,
I better let you know what I thought of it. As an
BY SARAH STEPHEN
The Curtin Immigration Detention Centre was on show to the media for the first time on June 10, a move the immigration department described as being part of an effort to change public perceptions, created by three riots in close
BY SUE BOLAND
Once the news broke in Australia about the police and militia attack on the Asia Pacific People's Solidarity conference in Indonesia on June 8 and the detention of conference participants, friends and relatives of the detainees in
BY SEAN HEALY
The architects of an integrated, capitalist Europe were dealt a stunning blow on June 7 when a clear majority in Ireland voted to reject the Treaty of Nice, the blueprint for the European Union's expansion.
The "yes" case in the
BY AARON BENEDEK
TOKYO — Activists here are preparing to launch a Japanese chapter of ATTAC, Action for a Tobin Tax to Assist the Citizen, which calls for a tax on speculative capital flows.
Thirty socialists, unionists and non-government
Tens of thousands of teachers, public sector workers and students protested in the capital, Bogota, and most major cities on June 7 against budget measures agreed between the Colombian government and the International Monetary Fund.
The
BY LYNDA HANSEN
BRISBANE — "I would like to ask immigration minister Philip Ruddock, do you know what it is like to be a refugee? No, of course you don't, you do not care about refugees!", Latin American solidarity activist Rafael Pacheco told a
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