BY JIM GREEN
Prime Minister John Howard announced in parliament on June 5 — World Environment Day — that the Australian government will not ratify the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions.
The announcement followed ratification of the
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Recently, I had some direct experience of how the capitalist system exploits young workers. I was employed at the Dimmey's discount department store that just opened in Hobart's Elizabeth Mall. Like the other 14 workers, I was told that I was a
BY NICK EVERETT
SYDNEY — Speaking to an overflow audience of 250 people at the Newtown Neighbourhood Centre on June 2, writer, film-maker and left activist Tariq Ali analysed the key issues in world politics after September 11.
The meeting,
File management
The June 9 email newsletter of Children Out of Detention (ChilOut) reports that immigration minister Philip Ruddock's email address has recently been disabled. This makes him Australia's only parliamentarian who cannot be contacted
BY PETER BOYLE
There is a painful image from East Timor that remains engraved in
my mind. It is the footage of Timorese throwing their children over the
razor wire fence of the UN compound, then scrambling up the side of a hill
dragging
BY AHMED NIMER
RAMALLAH — Figures from the Manufacturers Association of Israel confirm that the country's economy is in its deepest recession since 1953. Since the fourth quarter of 2000, 22,000 industrial workers have been laid off, industrial
BY ROHAN PEARCE
Western media reporting on the Middle East over recent weeks has
focussed on the deaths caused by a handful of suicide bombings in Israel.
Missing from most of the coverage is the scale of the violence being unleashed
on
Hundreds of angry
demonstrators rallied on June 8 outside the British Prime Minster Tony
Blair's residence at 10 Downing Street, London, to protest against British
arms sales to India and Pakistan and oppose war between the two countries.
Actively Radical TV — Channel 31 Sydney, every Sunday, 9pm. Phone 9565 5522. Visit <http://www.channel31.org> for program details.
Access News — Melbourne community TV, Channel 31, every Monday, 8pm. Phone 9633 6976.
Warumpi Band
The following statement is being circulated by activists in the refugees' rights movement. It was drafted to encourage discussion about alternatives to detention. Green Left Weekly believes it deserves wide circulation and consideration. We encourage
BY KAMALA EMANUEL
HOBART — "Today we are welcoming home the remains of people who should never have been taken away", announced Tasmanian Aboriginal community leader Michael Mansell at the Hobart international airport on June 14.
He was
The British radical band CHUMBAWAMBA has written a scathing song — "Her Majesty" — to "celebrate" Betty Windsor's Golden Jubilee on the British throne. London was subjected to four days of stage-managed "festivities" beginning June 1, culminating
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