Cognac for some, Claytons for others
Porsche sales are up: evidence, surely, of the the much eulogised economic recovery. Good news too on profit margins: they are forecast to rise 20% this year. And by year's end unemployment is expected to ...
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PETER CAMEJO is chairperson of Earth Trade, a San Francisco-based import/export company specialising in environmentally sustainable development. He will be a featured guest speaker at the International Green Left Conference from March 31 to April 4
Victorian teachers still waiting for award
By Elisabeth Thomas
MELBOURNE — At a branch delegates meeting on February 12, Victorian teachers voted for a campaign of industrial action in response to a delay in granting an interim federal
Ruling against Colombian president
BOGOTA — Colombian President Cesar Gaviria may have to stand trial for the unauthorised presence of US troops in Colombian territory.
On February 9 Colombia's Council of State unanimously ruled that
Comment by Ruben Montero
MELBOURNE — The campaign centred on the Richmond Secondary College was described by Frank Hardy before his death as one of the most inspiring working-class struggles in Australia since the 1890s strikes.
The true
Zapata, Dead or Alive
SBS TV
Friday, March 4, 8.30 p.m. (8 Adelaide)
Reviewed by Peter Boyle
Even before the surprise Zapatista uprising in Mexico on New Year's Day, there were Mexicans who believed that the legendary revolutionary leader
Bougainville
By Brandon Astor Jones
Yellow Cake, Yellow Cake
Where have you been?
I've been asleep in the ground
Not part of the scene.
But now I'm awake,
I can sing, I can shout,
Innuendo, Crescendo,
As to what it's all
4ZZZ needs a computer
BRISBANE — 4ZZZ radio station is trying very hard. A ZZZ reporter was thrown out of PNG Prime Minister Paias Wingti's media conference for asking about Bougainville, and another was arrested over free speech in the Queen
Uranium scare in SA
By Anthony Thirlwall
ADELAIDE — Western Mining Corporation on February 14 revealed a contamination alert at its huge uranium and copper mine, Olympic Dam, in the north-west of the state.
The alert was sparked by
By Stephen Robson
PERTH — When nominations for the by-election in the federal seat of Fremantle closed on February 15, only four names were on the ballot, including candidates for the ALP, Liberals and the Greens (WA). The Australian Democrats
Cops mistreat logging protesters
By Aneurin Coffey
and Lachlan Anderson
MELBOURNE — Police use of neck holds to remove protesters from an anti-logging picket on the February 11 has been condemned by medical experts as highly dangerous.
By Frank Enright
"The company's intention to extend the further utilisation of supplementaries [casuals] at the expense of permanent employees is yet a further example of the confrontationist tactics and policies within the stevedoring industry
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