Aggressive earnings management
Want to make money but you don't really know how? Not small amounts of money, enough to get you through to the next pay packet or student allowance. Really big amounts of money, enough to impress the stock market. In
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German Greens
Congratulations to the very well-informed articles by Jim Green about the rotten German Greens. I almost wrote a letter in regard to his first article (GLW #444) because I felt that some enlightenment about the deeply bourgeois nature
A leading Timorese aid worker has branded as a "sham" an Indonesian canvassing drive which found that 98% of East Timorese refugees confined to camps in West Timor did not want to go home.
Winston Neil Rondo, who works in camps in Kupang, claimed
BY SEAN HEALY
If you've gotten used to the feel of the velvet glove around your throat, then get ready to kiss it good-bye — because if events in Gothenburg, Sweden, are anything to go by, the steel fist is making a comeback.
The shootings of
BY KYLIE MOON
Behind closed doors in its Geneva headquarters, out of view of the public eye, the World Trade Organisation is currently negotiating the expansion of GATS, the General Agreement on Trades in Services. The product of extensive
Student Environment conference
NEWCASTLE — More than 500 students have registered for this year's Students and Sustainability Conference to be held at the Newcastle University, Callaghan Campus, from July 2 to July 6. Students from around the
Defend us from the centre-left
"Every centre-left government in the world — except New Zealand — is spending more on defence." — New Zealand military commentator Graeme Hunt, attacking military cutbacks by the NZ government.
Or maybe his
BY SEAN WALSH
MELBOURNE — Two hundred protesters successfully blockaded the Nike superstore on Friday June 22, despite police attempts to disperse them. The weekly blockades, protesting Nike's extreme exploitation of workers in the Third World,
BY GARY MEYEHOFF
DARWIN — The Top End Users' Forum has voiced concerns at the Northern Territory government's efforts to pass new laws expanding police powers, calling them "vote-grabbing".
The Country Liberal Party has introduced draft
BY ANDY GIANNIOTIS
KATOOMBA — "For decades people have been asking the Australian socialist left 'Why don't you people get together?'", Philippa Skinner, a homecare worker from Woodford, told the Blue Mountains launch of the Socialist Alliance on