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Queensland teachers to strike

Queensland teachers to strike BY BILL MASON BRISBANE — Teachers at Sarina High School in north Queensland are to defy the state Industrial Relations Commission and strike for 24 hours on May 23, and other schools will hold stop-work meetings to

New England students occupy 'underhanded' university

New England students occupy 'underhanded' university BY ANDREW DEVENISH-MEARES ARMIDALE — Students occupied the administration building at the University of New England (UNE) here on May 18 to protest against cuts to subjects and services, and

NO RECONCILIATION WITHOUT JUSTICE!

NO RECONCILIATION WITHOUT JUSTICE! Sunday, March 28 Join the "No reconciliation without justice" contingent in the Corroboree 2000 walk across Sydney Harbour Bridge. Rally at 10am, Clark Park, Lavender St, Milson Point to demand: A treaty and

Food irradiation plant planned in Queensland

BY SEAN HEALY Opponents of food irradiation will return to the Queensland Planning and Environment Court on June 5 seeking to block an application to allow medical and biotechnology company Steritech to build a nuclear irradiation plant in

Loose cannons

Capacity "[It is] subject to having the capacity to pay." — Tax office second commissioner Michael D'Ascenzo on why some of the income, fringe benefit and superannuation taxes evaded by high-income individuals via employee benefit schemes might

BRITAIN: London Socialist Alliance campaign an 'astounding success'

BRITAIN: London Socialist Alliance campaign an 'astounding success' Summarised below are two reports by the LONDON SOCIALIST ALLIANCE (LSA) central office which assess the alliance's performance in the May 4 election for the newly created Greater

INDONESIA: The movement for people's art and culture

REVITRIYOSO HUSODO and SRI WAHYUNINGSIH of the People's Cultural Network (JAKER) in Indonesia spoke to Green Left Weekly's JULIA PERKINS during her recent visit there.   JAKER is sustained by a belief in socialist realist art and

Fighting corporate terrorism

Fighting corporate terrorism By Bronwen Powell SYDNEY — The socialist youth organisation Resistance has announced it will be holding forums across the country to explain the "globalisation of corporate terrorism" and the need for the

Big business and the farm crisis

BY SUE BOLAND "If the profitable third of our farmers were able to represent the industry and set the agenda for debate we would hear a rural voice with constructive ideas ... Instead, the debate is driven by the unprofitable rump ... who yearn for

SA dump battle turns into 'nuclear war'

SA dump battle turns into 'nuclear war' BY JIM GREEN The South Australian Liberal government on May 17 announced it would legislate in an attempt to stop the federal government storing high-level nuclear waste in the state. Federal science

Northern Rivers mobilises against racism

BY CORRINNE BATT-RAWDEN AND TONY ILTIS LISMORE — "Since John Howard said that there was no stolen generations, communities have gotten angry, and the people of Lismore have taken to the streets ... We can beat racism", Edda Lampis of the Northern

NOAM CHOMSKY: The capitalist 'principle' and Third World debt

BY NOAM CHOMSKY The simplest answer to the argument that countries who borrowed from the World Bank/International Monetary Fund have no right to ask for debt forgiveness is that the presupposition is false, so the argument is vacuous. For example,