BY DAVID HARRIS
BAMBRA — One of the "lungs" of Victoria, the Otway Ranges, is at a crossroads as the destructive practice of clear-fell logging is now cutting into irreplaceable bio-diverse native forests. This is at the expense of other forest
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BY RICHARD PITHOUSE
DURBAN Lotus Park is a ghetto with a view. The unpainted, cracked,
leaking blocks of flats sit on a hill in Isipingo, south of Durban. In
the valley, you can seen the houses of the rich and, along the freeway,
you can
BY MAX LANE
Golkar chairperson Akbar Tanjung has accused the People's Democratic Party and two student activist organisations, Forkot and Jarkot, of being behind the burning down of its offices throughout East Java.
Jakarta's main daily, Kompas,
BY MELANIE SJOBERG
Rubbing shoulders with the 3200 corporate and political heavyweights at the World Economic Forum summit in Davos, Switzerland, was one lone Australian trade union official: ACTU president Sharan Burrow. Maybe she thought it was a
BY ALISON DELLIT
In 1788, Captain James Cook justified land theft from Aborigines on the basis that they "set no value upon anything" and were incapable of "improving their lot". In 2000, Prime Minister John Howard justified further attacks on
BY DANIEL NEWMAN
& BRONWYN POWELL
WOLLONGONG At a meeting at Brandon Park on February 5, 3000 BHP
Port Kembla steelworkers voted for an immediate 24-hour strike, a series
of rolling stoppages and called for a national steel union
Any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest
form to any child at any stage of development. Jerome Seymour Bruner,
from The Process of Education (1960)
No matter how young or old one might be, politics is open to
BY SIMON TAYLER
As we drive into Villawood Immigration Detention Centre, the first thing I feel is the place's isolation from the world around it. To the south, only just visible, is the local industrial area — book printers and truck yards.
The Australian Bureau of Agricultural Resource Economics (ABARE) released its report on the outcome of dairy deregulation on January 30. It confirmed that in the six months since the final stage of dairy deregulation was implemented on July 1, 200
BY KATHY NEWNAM
ADELAIDE — "With M1, the people's movement is taking the initiative to protest against the rule of the corporate elite", declares the rallying call of M1 Adelaide, adopted at the coalition's February 7 meeting.
The statement
BY CHRIS SLEE
MELBOURNE — On February 5, the Industrial Relations Commission began a hearing on the dispute between Yallourn Energy and the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union. The CFMEU is appealing against the termination of its
BY BEN REID
MANILA — The leader of the militant BMP trade union federation and prominent leftist, Filemon "Popoy" Lagman, was assassinated on February 6. Four gunmen opened fire while Lagman was visiting the Diliman campus of the University of
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