Brisbane Resistance Centre relocates
By Graham Matthews
BRISBANE — After 13 years at 29 Terrace Street in New Farm the Brisbane Resistance Centre has relocated. Since an arson attack on the premises in August 1998, Resistance and the Democratic
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Telstra inquiry: we lose
The federal government, which wants to sell the remaining 50.1% of Telstra, announced an inquiry into Telstra service levels on March 19.
The inquiry is chaired by Tim Besley, who headed the Commonwealth Bank when it was
E.H. Carr: the historian as partisan
The vices of integrity: EH Carr 1892-1982By Jonathan HaslamVerso, 1999306pp., $75 (hb) Review by Phil Shannon
There haven't been many historians who, having spent most of their career as Foreign Office
Israeli soldiers maim Palestinian children
By Alec Smart
EAST JERUSALEM — On December 16, I sat in a Lebanese restaurant discussing the ins and outs of the forthcoming millennium celebrations with Ralph. Ralph works for the Temporary
NOWSA 2000
From July 10-14, Flinders University in Adelaide will host the Network of Women Students Australia conference. NOWSA plays an important role in facilitating campaigns, providing a national forum for discussion, helping campus feminists
Police riot at Reclaim the Streets
By Citizen P.
SYDNEY — On March 18, 3000 people rallied here to protest against destructive corporate transport policies. Music came from solar-powered sound systems mounted in sculptures made from
By Pip Hinman
Indonesian House of Representatives speaker and Golkar faction leader Akbar Tandjung wants the Abdurrahman Wahid government to ratify the draconian security law which was pushed through a depleted parliament during the last hours of
You won't find John Laws or Alan Jones making extravagant supportive statements about Green Left Weekly on their radio programs and you certainly won't find Rupert Murdoch adding GLW to his investment portfolio. GLW can't and won't pay "sponsorship"
Environmental criminals
Yet another toxic spill by an Australian mining company in the Third World provides a compelling argument for tougher laws against polluters. It also exposes the futility of "industry self-regulation".
On March 22, one
Workers demand restoration of WorkCover
By Chris Slee
MELBOURNE — More than 4000 workers marched to the office of the Victorian Employers Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VECCI) on March 23 to demand improvements to WorkCover, Victoria's
Suicide seeds on the fast track
"We've continued right on with work on the Technology Protection System [Terminator]. We never really slowed down. We're on target, moving ahead to commercialize it. We never really backed off." — Harry Collins,
Networker: To ashes
To ashes
A network of satellites circling near the earth could deliver every imaginable
communication service: television, videos, telephone, fax, internet, computer
connections, and lots more.
Such a
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