Statistics as tragedies
BY SEAN HEALY
The HDR 2000 is primarily a statistical compilation, with pages and pages of tables. But amongst the statistics are real tragedies:
In Afghanistan, 94% of the country's 21.3 million people have no access to
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BY MARGARET ALLUM
The list of the world's richest 200 women has been released, and a big shock it was to those of us who had expected to see our very own monarch in top spot, at least among the royal women in contention. But no, our Lizzie
At last, the 1901 show
Within the four walls of Australia we're working up a bit of a hoot. The centenary of federation is here — almost! Girt by sea, festooned with waratah and greased up with eucky oil, all the common people of Australia
Human rights in China have deteriorated sharply, according to Amnesty International, which described Beijing's crackdown on peaceful dissent in 1999 as "the most serious and wide-ranging" in the last 10 years. "Thousands of people were arbitrarily
SOUTH AFRICA: Privatisers gets 'Seattled'
JOHANNESBURG — Holding up an unexploded orange water balloon like a trophy, South Africa's water and forestry department director-general Mike Muller beamed with relief. He and a gathering of water
Urban guerillas confront injustice
Urban GuerillasJust a LifetimeMad in AustraliaCloud Above my HeadSelf-releasedOrder at <http://www.arch.su.edu.au/~stewa_k/Lyrics.htm> REVIEW BY ROBBIE CASEY
Marchers in this year's May Day parade in
While capitalist economists and mainstream press finance writers may have fervently embraced "free trade" as a cure for all ills, the multinational corporations and Western governments are far more pragmatic and cunning: they write the rules of
Centrelink introduces 'No sign-no start'
BY TIMOTHY STARR
BRISBANE — In a mock presentation about a new social security regulation, a Centrelink call centre worker took three props to her weekly team meeting: a dictionary, a carrot and a stick.
Aboriginal rally condemns government 'war'
BY RUSSELL PICKERING
SYDNEY — The federal government's policy towards the Aboriginal people would turn the Sydney Olympics into "the games of shame, not the games of peace", Aboriginal Tent Embassy
The following statement was issued by Rebwar Ahmad, secretary of the Worker Communist Party of Iraq on July 14. Green Left Weekly readers are urged to respond to the WCPI's urgent appeal for solidarity. On July 14, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan
BY KAMALA EMANUEL
HOBART — While the "walk for reconciliation" across the Tasman Bridge planned for July 23 has the endorsement of the political establishment as well as Aboriginal people, calls are also being raised for far more substantial
INDIA: Bihar assembly besieged
Responding to a call by the Communist Party of India-Marxist Leninist (Liberation), thousands of protesters staged a militant gherao (siege) of the assembly building in the poor, northern state of Bihar on July 11.
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