Building workers walk off over safety
BRISBANE Building workers walked off 100 major construction sites in
south-east Queensland on April 4 in response to the death of a worker.
Unions demanded a safety audit of all building projects
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BY SUE BOLAND
Shock! Horror! Media magnate Rupert Murdoch's hired mouthpieces at the Australian have accused the Coalition government and the Labor Party of turning on big business, in particular the banks.
While the Murdoch family doesn't own
BY IGGY KIM
SEOUL — As political relations between the leaderships of South Korea and North Korea thaw, the generals and bureaucrats around North Korea's "Dear Leader" Kim Jong-il are not yet united on a clear, single objective. They are sure of
BY RA GREEN & SIMON BUTLER
BRISBANE — In a bid to access an extra $15 million of state government funding, the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) has decided to abolish its arts faculty and replace it with a new faculty called "creative
Green tinted glasses
Friends of the Earth's Peter Barker (Write on, GLW #442) says that I "neglect to understand the depth and diversity of people that make up FoE's huge international network" in my review of FoE International's document Towards
Virtual taxes
The issue of taxation on the internet has worried governments ever
since electronic business became a household phrase in the late 1990s.
A shopper in Melbourne buys a book or CD from the US. The shopper has just
managed
BY NORM DIXON
An Indian Fijian rights group in Suva is seeking compensation from the Indian, Australian and British governments, reported the Times of India on April 3. The Peoples' Organisation for Indo-Fijian Rights and Land Resolution said these
BY VIV MILEY
Following the Cuban Revolution in 1959, Washington launched many unsuccessful attempts to overthrow the popular revolution that had triumphed just 140 kilometres(90 miles) from US shores. The most notorious attempt was at the Bay of
BY SEAN HEALY
"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist." — Roger "Verbal" Kint (Kevin Spacey), The Usual Suspects, 1995.
"M1 can be as big as it likes", someone recently said to me, "but isn't opposing
His Majesty's ship Leopard forced the [USS] Chesapeake
to surrender off the Virginia Capes in 1807, and sullied American national
honor by impressing American men ... two of the four impressed sailors
were men of color. White dominated
BY VIRGINIA BROWN & SARAH STEPHEN
PERTH — This year's International Women's Day march here on March 10 was a huge success, with larger numbers marching with more energy and enthusiasm than for many years. There was also an unusually large number
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — Forestry Tasmania's planned Southwood Resources woodchip mill in the Huon valley is under intense pressure from increased public opposition. This was reflected most strongly in a rally here of thousands of people on
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