BY JONATHAN STRAUSS
The recent purchase by Foundation Health Care of the Medihelp medical centre chain means 1000 general practitioners, about 5% of all those in Australia, will be contracted to Foundation.
Foundation managing director Ken Jones
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On October 29, 26 million Brazilians voted for municipal governments in cities where no candidate had won an absolute majority after the first round of voting on October 1. Brazil's left-wing Workers Party (PT) won 13 of the 16 cities where it had
BY MICHELLE BREAR& FEDERICO FUENTES
SYDNEY — Staff members and students from University of Western Sydney picketed all seven UWS campuses on November 9 in protest at the proposed restructuring of the university. The strike was the second held in
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BY JIM GREEN
The Australian delegation to the crucial climate change conference at the Hague has been awarded a "Fossil of the Day" award because of its persistent efforts to widen loopholes in the Kyoto protocol.
On November 15, more than 100
BY TIM GOODEN& SUE BULL
DELHI — Workers are locked out of a car manufacturing plant, scabs are brought in and workers are told to sign individual contracts before they can return to work. The new contracts require workers not to participate in
BY DAVID BACON
SAN FRANCISCO — Their hands sewed the clothes you're wearing, and the ones in your closet. They picked the vegetables on your plate and cut the meat in your refrigerator. These hands stuffed chips into the motherboard of your
BY PETER BOYLE
Hundreds of commemorations of the first anniversary of the Seattle protests against the World Trade Organisation (WTO) are being organised for around November 30.
In Seattle, the street protests outside, and the activities of
@head = INDONESIA: Activists plan anti-globalisation conference
BY MAX LANE
JAKARTA — Leaders of the struggle against neo-liberal globalisation here are preparing a major gathering of activists to discuss strategies to stop the imperialist
More than 60,000 municipal workers around South Africa on November 15-17 staged strikes and marches to oppose the privatisation of local government services being pushed through by mainly African National Congress-controlled councils.
In
BY ANDREW HALL
CANBERRA — With the ACT Liberal government targeting public spaces such as nature reserves, ovals, lake shores and parklands for privatisation, nearly 400 people rallied in opposition on November 18. Community groups from across
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