By Marcel Cameron
MELBOURNE — On February 21, the longest running blockade of logging operations in East Gippsland was brutally attacked by 50 men wielding axes, sawn timber and iron bars. The camp at Goolengook was destroyed and 13
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By Jenny Long
With the release of unemployment figures late last year, John Howard remarked approvingly on an apparent fall in "second income earners" in the work force. There's obviously no doubt in the PM's mind that women should be safely at
By Tim Stewart
GOLD COAST — Public access to popular Back Creek Gorge in the Gold Coast hinterland has been won back from the Australian army, which wanted the land to expand their Canungra Land Warfare Centre. What began as a protest by 200
Comment by Melanie Sjoberg
Federal ALP leader Kim Beazley and Labor's industrial relations spokesperson Arch Bevis have finally caught up with the common view that the Accord is dead ... or have they? In an interview with Workers Online (March 3),
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extolling the wonders that will soon descend. No reader can be left in
any doubt: better and better technology is about to solve every human need.
The future is
On March 16, the Paris Club of rich creditor countries announced a suspension of Mozambique's debt repayments until July, following the floods that devastated the country earlier this month. The Jubilee 2000 coalition, which campaigns for the
Zero tolerance policing
I have just read Norm Dixon's article "Killer cops go free" (GLW #396). I agree with Dixon that Zero Tolerance policing is a disaster, not just in New York also in Sydney. Its application to a small Arabic speaking community
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Olympics forcing Sydney rents up
By Sean Healy
SYDNEY — Tenant rights advocates Rentwatchers have warned that rent levels in the Olympics corridor here are skyrocketing and the frequency of evictions from houses, flats and lodges in the city
What happened to the Democratic Republic of East Timor?
DILI — The small, unassuming office of the CPD-RDTL (Council in Defence of the Democratic Republic of East Timor) in Balide belies the debate that is brewing over the restoration of the
Hindu fundamentalists knocked back
By Eva Cheng
The February attempt by India's main Hindu fundamentalist party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), to seize power through the back door in India's second largest state, Bihar, has failed miserably.
Speaking tour will highlight need for solidarity
By Simon Butler
Despite democratic changes in Indonesia and the end of the occupation of East Timor, "... there's still lots of reasons why solidarity from people in Australia is desperately
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