Centrelink staff outraged at minister's attack
BY JIM McILROY
BRISBANE — Union members in Centrelink offices around the country are outraged at attempts by family and community services minister Jocelyn Newman to blame them for GST-related
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Statistics as lies
The Human Development Report 2000 findings of a growing rich-poor divide have proved contentious, mainly because they shatter claims that the brave new world of corporate-run "globalisation" will lead to prosperity and bounty for
The Korean War: a war of counter-revolution
SEOUL — Fifty years after the outbreak of the Korean War, it is still seen as a war to defend peaceful South Korea against the aggressive ambitions of "totalitarian" North Korea. This theme dominated
FIJI: 'Parachute journalism' aids plotters' propaganda
DAVID ROBIE, a respected commentator on Pacific island affairs and now head of the journalism program at the University of the South Pacific in Suva, spoke to Green Left Weekly's NICK FREDMAN.
The myth of the peaceful atom
BY JIM GREEN
"Over the last 30 years the International Atomic Energy Agency's safeguards system under the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty has been a conspicuous international success", says Ian Hore-Lacey from the
Lucas Heights reactor contract signed
BY JIM GREEN
SYDNEY — Construction of a new nuclear research reactor in the Sydney suburb of Lucas Heights is now due to begin in 2002, after the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
Write on: Letters to the editor
Equality of opportunity?
Readers may have seen a recent series in the Australian on inequality.
Much rubbish was written, some of which I hope to address later. However, particularly striking was the consensus
BY MARGARET ALLUM
The list of the world's richest 200 women has been released, and a big shock it was to those of us who had expected to see our very own monarch in top spot, at least among the royal women in contention. But no, our Lizzie
Statistics as tragedies
BY SEAN HEALY
The HDR 2000 is primarily a statistical compilation, with pages and pages of tables. But amongst the statistics are real tragedies:
In Afghanistan, 94% of the country's 21.3 million people have no access to
At last, the 1901 show
Within the four walls of Australia we're working up a bit of a hoot. The centenary of federation is here — almost! Girt by sea, festooned with waratah and greased up with eucky oil, all the common people of Australia
Human rights in China have deteriorated sharply, according to Amnesty International, which described Beijing's crackdown on peaceful dissent in 1999 as "the most serious and wide-ranging" in the last 10 years. "Thousands of people were arbitrarily
SOUTH AFRICA: Privatisers gets 'Seattled'
JOHANNESBURG — Holding up an unexploded orange water balloon like a trophy, South Africa's water and forestry department director-general Mike Muller beamed with relief. He and a gathering of water
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