Chris Williams, Wollongong
Residents of Thirroul, a suburb north of Wollongong, are outraged at plans to redevelop the Beaches Hotel site in the main street.
Wests Illawarra Leagues Club has submitted a development application to Wollongong City
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On January 29, John Kobelke, minister for Consumer and Employment Protection, released Restoring Fairness, Balance and Certainty: Workers' Compensation Reforms. The document's introduction states that it is the final stage of checking before the legislation is submitted to parliament.
REVIEW BY RICHARD PITHOUSE
The Essential Bruce SpringsteenBruce SpringsteenColumbia records
It is a time when the relentless commodification of everything has largely driven politically and artistically valuable popular culture underground. So it
Kamal Fadel
On January 30, the United Nations Security Council adopted resolution 1523, which extended the mandate of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) until April 30 to give the government of Morocco, which
During the short Queensland election campaign, the three Socialist Alliance candidates mobilised more than 100 supporters to take socialism to the electorate. Adrian Skerritt, candidate for Inala, received 3.1% of the primary vote, after running a
Philadelphia — On January 29, former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger presented an award from the Inter-American Economic Council to Gustavo Cisneros, a Venezuelan billionaire identified by Newsweek and Venezuelan publications as one of the
Doug Lorimer
Eleven months after the US-led invasion of Iraq, the electricity supply in the country's two largest cities — Baghdad and Basra — has still not been fully restored. By contrast, it took Saddam Hussein's Baathist regime only three
A selection of British PM Tony Blair's statements during the last two years.
"Saddam's weapons of mass destruction program is active, detailed and growing. The intelligence picture is extensive, detailed and authoritative." — September 24, 2002
Kiraz Janicke, Perth
Around 40 students ambushed Prime Minister John Howard on February 3, chanting "Howard, come off it, education is not for profit" as he entered the 6PR radio station. The following day, another crowd gathered outside Liberal
Jorge Jorquera
With a new indefinite strike looming, Bolivia is on the verge of its third national uprising since February last year. That uprising brought hundreds of thousands of workers and peasants into the streets, but failed to resolve the
Allen Myers, Phnom Penh
On January 29, police announced the arrest of two people they accuse of fatally shooting Chea Vichea, the president of the Free Trade Union of Workers.
Vichea was killed a week earlier, as he read newspapers at a news
Jack A. Smith, New York
US President George Bush's administration is now frantically attempting to defuse three crises at once resulting from its invasion of Iraq.
These are the persistent guerrilla campaign against the occupation; deepening
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