BY MELANIE SJOBERG
As the sun slowly crept above city office buildings, hundreds of union activists and officials responded to an urgent call by the NSW Labor Council to blockade parliament on June 19 in a desperate attempt to prevent Labor Premier
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A leading Timorese aid worker has branded as a "sham" an Indonesian canvassing drive which found that 98% of East Timorese refugees confined to camps in West Timor did not want to go home.
Winston Neil Rondo, who works in camps in Kupang, claimed
BY IGGY KIM
Renowned Russian Marxist writer and political commentator Boris Kagarlitsky will speak at the Second Asia Pacific International Solidarity Conference, to be held in Sydney, March 29-April 1, 2002.
Kagarlitsky was jailed for his
REVIEW BY SIMON BUTLER
The Red North: Queensland's History of StruggleBy Jim McIlroyResistance Books, Sydney 200129 pages, $3.50
Communist parliamentarians, armed rural uprisings, revolutionary soviets — this is hardly the history of Queensland
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BY SARAH STEPHEN
On June 14, the Fairfax company's Melbourne Age and Sydney Morning Herald each ran a three-page expose detailing the stories of four women who allege that they were raped in the 1970s and '80s by
Aggressive earnings management
Want to make money but you don't really know how? Not small amounts of money, enough to get you through to the next pay packet or student allowance. Really big amounts of money, enough to impress the stock market. In
Student Environment conference
NEWCASTLE — More than 500 students have registered for this year's Students and Sustainability Conference to be held at the Newcastle University, Callaghan Campus, from July 2 to July 6. Students from around the
By Kerryn Williams
[On June 8, 2001, Indonesian police broke up the Asia Pacific People's Solidarity Conference at Sawangan, near Jakarta, arresting 32 foreign participants. Kerryn Williams was one of those detained.]
"Welcome to democracy in
By Trisha Reimers
More than 50% of US garments are made in sweatshops. The vast majority (up to 90%) of sweatshop workers are women. In Australia, there are more than 300,000 outworkers. These outworkers are paid a few dollars an hour, or a pitiful
BY SEAN HEALY
SYDNEY — The giant transnational corporations will come under the spotlight in September, when more than 100 academics, researchers and activists from across the region gather here for the third conference of the Asia-Pacific
BY SEAN HEALY
If you've gotten used to the feel of the velvet glove around your throat, then get ready to kiss it good-bye — because if events in Gothenburg, Sweden, are anything to go by, the steel fist is making a comeback.
The shootings of
BY GARY MEYEHOFF
DARWIN — The Top End Users' Forum has voiced concerns at the Northern Territory government's efforts to pass new laws expanding police powers, calling them "vote-grabbing".
The Country Liberal Party has introduced draft
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