BY EVA CHENG
Prompted by the 1997-98 world economic crisis and after two years of rapid growth, the fledgling international movement for a "Tobin tax" — a tax on currency transactions to help curb financial speculation — is seeking to speed up
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Campaign 2000 kicks into action
BY CHRIS SPINDLER
MELBOURNE — A 24-hour strike at white goods manufacturer Email on August 3 marks the first of possibly many industrial disputes here as manufacturing workers begin their cross-industry Campaign
South Australia says no to N-dump
BY JIM GREEN
What part of the word "no" does federal science minister Nick Minchin not understand? A poll conducted by Channel 7 in July last year found that 93% of South Australians oppose the siting of a
GST: rolling back the opposition
In the month since the introduction of the Howard government's goods and services tax, the big-business propaganda machine — commonly referred to as the "mass media" — has mounted a sustained attack on the ALP's
Spotlight on Indonesia and West Papua
Independence activists killed in West Papua
Two residents attempting to hoist West Papua's Morning Star independence flag in the coastal city of Sorong were shot dead by Indonesian police on July 28.
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BY JORGE JORQUERA MELBOURNE — In preparation for the S11 protests against the World Economic Forum meeting here in September, Green Left Weekly has launched a new web site.
FIJI: 'Indigenous rights' smokescreen for elite rule
Terrorist leader George Speight has claimed that his gang's kidnapping of the government of Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry was to defend "indigenous" Melanesian Fijians' political
Tale of a numb bum
For the sake of argument, if I were to get you to sit there for a long time you'd end up with a numb bum. Of course, you'd need a fair share of reading matter or a particularly long movie or speech to warrant being sedentary
Hiroshima Day
BY JENNY LONG
SYDNEY — Three hundred people gathered here on August 5 to mark the
55th anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and
to protest against war and the nuclear industry.
Impeccably neutral
"[Australian Broadcasting Authority chairperson David Flint] has impeccable political connections — he is close to the Prime Minister — and is seen by the industry as neutral." — Anne Davies in the Sydney Morning Herald.
BY SEAN HEALY
SYDNEY — NSW Premier Bob Carr's Labor government appears hell-bent on committing 230,000 tonnes of predominantly old-growth timber from north-east NSW to be burned each year for charcoal at Gunnedah, the North East Forest Alliance
BY ZANNY BEGG
SYDNEY — A determined Aboriginal community would not be deterred by Olympics organisers' boast that "not one black toe would cross the Homebush Bay line", the Indigenous Social Justice Association's Ray Jackson told a packed public
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