By Martin Oliver
Concern about genetically modified foods in Australia is growing, despite the predictable messages being conveyed by the media. Modified foods now include Australian-grown cottonseed oil and imported canola oil, maize, tomato,
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By Shane Bentley and Peter Johnson
SYDNEY — Members of the NSW Teachers Federation held two-hour stop-work meetings on June 17 to protest against the Howard government's promotion of private schools over the public school system. Concerned parent
MUA-Patrick deal: a great struggle faces betrayal
By Dick Nichols
The draft terms of settlement of the dispute between the Maritime
Union of Australia and Patrick Stevedores, released last week on the Age's
web page, raise three
A child's question about abolishing native title
What did you do Daddy
to assist John Howard's ethnic cleansing?
Did you just go around:
donging dagos
bashing boongs
wacking wogs
and
slashing slopes?
Mr. Brown was a Storm Trooper
By Tim E. Stewart
BRISBANE — A lively public speak-out against the racist and reactionary policies of One Nation was held here on June 19. The Democratic Socialists' action in busy Queen Street Mall was the first community response to the
Doctors' dispute enters second week
By Lara Pullin
CANBERRA — A dispute involving the ACT's visiting medical officers (VMOs) has entered its second week. The dispute has forced the closure of the two public surgical wards at Calvary Hospital.
Against the wishes of the traditional owners, the Mirrar people, and against the wishes of 80% of Australians, Energy Resources of Australia (ERA) began construction of the Jabiluka uranium mine in Kakadu National Park on June 15. Just a few days
Fight for free speech in Adelaide
By Jo Ellis
ADELAIDE — Green Left Weekly is under attack here. The city council will not allow GLW to be distributed in the mall without a permit. The permit will cost $10 per week per distributor. The council
By Norm Dixon
Biwater, the huge British-owned corporation that has been named the "preferred bidder" for the Nelspruit's water and waste services, in South Africa's Mpumalanga province, is threatening legal action against opponents of privatisation
'Nationalise the banks', say socialists
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — "The answer to Pauline Hanson's right-wing populist policies is not to reaffirm the failed 'economic rationalist' program of the major parties, but to launch a socialist
By Phil Stanford and Stan Thompson
RAMALLAH â An international conference in Jerusalem on June 7-10
commemorated 50 years of dispossession of the Palestinian people. The conference
overwhelmingly rejected the Oslo accords and discussed the
US agency bows to pressure on organic standards
After receiving more than 200,000 comments from farmers, environmentalists, consumers and others, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that it is backing down on proposed national organic
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