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BY SEAN HEALY While trade bureaucrats from the rich countries begin negotiations in Geneva to extend the World Trade Organisation's Agreement on Agriculture, a new report released by the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) shows
BY MELODY COUTMAN & ALISON DELLIT NEWCASTLE — The ballots cast in the Newcastle University Student Association (NUSA) presidential by-election on November 6-7 are to be destroyed uncounted, following a decision by the NUSA executive to uphold the
SARI KASSIS from Friends of Palestine spoke at a Green Left Weekly forum in Sydney on November 1. The following is an abridged version of his speech. I am a card-carrying Palestinian. The card is a small orange identity card. This card doesn't so
BY JON LAND On November 5, the Channel 9 Sunday program screened a special report titled "On Patrol in Timor", which claimed to show "how moderate militia factions are politically battling hardline groups still ready to attack the UN peacekeepers".
BY KERRYN WILLIAMS In the past week, the University of Canberra Students Association and the Wollongong University Student Representative Council have added their support to the "Global Action for Global Justice" student solidarity conference
BY MELANIE SJOBERGAND BRONWEN POWELL WOLLONGONG — Four thousand BHP Port Kembla workers voted for a 24-hour strike after an angry debate at a stopwork meeting here on November 9. "This is about job security", Graham Roberts, Australian Workers
BY BEN COURTICE MELBOURNE — How can you fight the boss for a pay rise when the boss locks you out of work for the next six months? This is the question workers had to grapple with at Brownbuilt, an office furniture factory in Oakleigh South.
BY PAM CURRIE BRISBANE — A November 7 forum here heard a member of the local Palestinian community, Saleh, and Democratic Socialist Party activist Stan Thompson, speak on the situation in Palestine. Saleh gave a detailed introduction to the
BY TYRION PERKINS CANBERRA — On the border of the ACT lies Mount Jerrabomberra, a landmark of Queanbeyan and one of the last mountains in the region with rare native plant species. Despite its listing as National Estate by the Australian Heritage
Bougainville leaders have warned that the "peace process" may collapse if the PNG government and island leaders do not return to the negotiating table soon to resume the stalled negotiations on the future of the province. Bougainville provincial
Using the n-word In an article in the September 28 Atlanta Journal-Constitution, entitled "Racial slur case should caution all teachers", an overly sympathetic Mary MacDonald reports that: "The story of a [W]hite Cobb County teacher disciplined
BY MARGARITA WINDISCH Filled with excitement, anticipation and a fair amount of anxiety, I arrived at 6am outside Melbourne's Crown Casino on Monday, September 11 to meet up with the other marshals from the S11 Alliance to organise the blockade of