BY JOHN PASSANT
"We have a great objective — the light on the hill — which we aim to reach by working for the benefit of mankind." So spoke Labor Prime Minister Ben Chifley half a century ago. Now Kim Beazley, celebrating the 100th anniversary
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BY BILL MASON
BRISBANE — A report into the mysterious concentration of illnesses at the Capalaba Post Office, south-east of the city, has been described by former workers as "superficial" and "a farce".
Up to 40 current and former Australia
BY SONNY MELENCIO
MANILA — While President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo formally lifted the week-long "state of rebellion" she had declared on May 7, the "terror effect" remains. The police and army are still maintaining checkpoints around this city
It is not fashionable today to write something good about an ex-convict.
Nevertheless, that is what I am setting out to do in this essay.
I received a letter recently from a correspondent who lives in Wales.
In it, she relates having met a
BY BRONWEN BEECHEY
ADELAIDE — The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union has claimed victory after a strike at Mobil's Port Stanvac refinery. The strike was part of a long-running dispute with Mobil over plans to reduce the work force at Port
BY KATHY NEWNAM
ADELAIDE — Following the overwhelming success of Adelaide's M1 blockade of the Australian Stock Exchange, more than 500 people joined the annual May Day parade here on May 5.
A spirited contingent of Socialist Alliance members
BY ALISON DELLIT
As the 2001 federal election approaches, immigration minister Philip
Ruddock has signalled that the government intends to make racist scapegoating
of refugees a central part of its re-election strategy.
Launching the
BY NORM DIXON
Television viewers across the world could be forgiven for believing
that rural Britain has been struck down by a plague of biblical proportions.
Nightly, as the foot and mouth disease (FMD) crisis unfolded, breathless
The mouth of a tiger?
"What is safer than being in the hands of the police?" — Malaysian deputy national police chief Jamil Johari, responding to accusations that people arrested under the Internal Security Act have been mistreated.
Also?
BY SEAN HEALY
A major international trade union confederation has told the World Trade Organisation that, in its view, the trade body has learned nothing from the defeat of attempts to launch a new, comprehensive round of trade talks at its last
100 years of service ... to capitalism
When the likes of Kim Beazley, Paul Keating and Bob Hawke swell with
pride at something, you know it must really stink.
On May 8, Labor leaders, past and present, gathered in Melbourne to
Getting Justice Wrong: Myths Media and CrimeBy Nicholas CowderyAllen & Unwin, 2001$19.95
BY KAREN FLETCHER
Law and order politics have been the ticket to success for many an ignorant and talent-less politician or media "commentator". A really
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