NSW Premier Bob Carr addressed the sustainability session at the World Economic Forum in Melbourne on September 13, calling for sustainable economic development to save the environment.
Citing global warming as one of his fears, he also directed
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BY JOHN GAUCI
SYDNEY — Pressure on Nike has been stepped up by an "Alternative Opening Ceremony" organised by NikeWatch, which challenged the sportswear giant to live up to the "Olympic ideal of human dignity".
The September 11 ceremony, in
BY KARL MILLER
"Quake" is a phenomenally popular shoot 'em up computer game. The designers included the capability for users to create "mods" or modified versions of the game. "Political Arena" is a satirical mod written specifically for the US
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Straight off I need to apologise. Regular visitors and the occasional tourist to this column have come to expect a certain sarcasm emanating from this printed space. I am what is often referred to locally as a professional knocker. That
BY CAMERON BROWN
NEWCASTLE — Sixty people staged a picket outside a McDonald's restaurant on King Street here on September 11, in solidarity with S11 protesters blockading the World Economic Forum in Melbourne.
While passers-by and many
There are scarcely words strong enough to properly condemn the brutal actions of the Victoria Police against S11 protesters, for these were acts of savagery the like of which this country has rarely seen.
There was a distinct pattern to police
BY ZANNY BEGG
SYDNEY — Seven hundred people turned out to support indigenous rights in protests coinciding with the September 15 opening ceremony of the Olympic Games — but in two seperate venues.
A rift between the Aboriginal Tent Embassy
BY JON LAND
When news of the killings in West Timor of workers from the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) by pro-Jakarta militia reached Prime Minister John Howard, he acted quickly to show support for the Indonesian government
Last week in Green Left Weekly, I outlined figures which indicate that the Australian public has so far lost around $13 billion to private capitalists through the privatisation of half of Telstra. This is the case even though shares in the second
A National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) spectrometer has detected an Antarctic ozone hole three times larger than the land mass of the United States, the largest such hole ever observed.
The hole expanded to a record size of
BY SUSAN PRICE
MELBOURNE — The Media, Arts and Entertainment Alliance (MEAA) announced on September 14 that it would support its members taking legal action against the Victoria Police for its use of violent tactics during the September 11-13
BY SIMON BUTLER
Nike is the world market leader in sports shoes. Its profits amounted to US$965 million in 1999. This huge figure in part flows from the sales generated from the vast volume of advertising Nike subjects the planet to. But mostly,
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