Dick Nichols
It's the lying rodent's favourite statistic in the "battle of ideas" over his government's new industrial relations legislation: on average, real wages have risen 12 times more in the last nine years of the John Howard government (14%)
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Dean Parker, Auckland
According to a Herald-DigiPoll poll, released on September 9, the incumbent Labour government of Prime Minister Helen Clark and the opposition National Party are running neck and neck in the lead-up to the September 17 New
Ray Fulcher
PM John Howard announced on September 8 an "unusual but necessary" increase in the state's repressive armament, supposedly to fight the "war on terror".
Taking his cue from British PM Tony Blair following the terrorist bombings in
Survival International reported on September 5 that Bushmen in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve have been threatened at gunpoint by wildlife guards in an attempt to force them to abandon their homes. This is part of a crackdown by Botswana's
Uncharted Waters: Social Responsibility in Australian Trade UnionsBy Greg MalloryBoolarong Press, Brisbane, 2005243 pages, $35 (pb)
REVIEW BY JIM MCILROY
In his foreword to Uncharted Waters, former NSW Builders Labourers Federation (BLF)
Tim Stewart, Canberra
"We used to have freedom to fish and to swim in our lagoon, but now we have freedom no more", Yat Paol, a visiting activist from Papua New Guinea, told a September 9 forum organised by Aid/Watch and hosted by Greens ACT
Stuart Munckton
"Cowboy" Bush failed US citizens in his handling of the crisis caused by Hurricane Katrina, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said in a televised cabinet meeting, Reuters reported on August 31. Chavez attacked Bush, who he referred
Call to protest Rice-Rumsfeld visit
Emma Murphy, Adelaide
The Rice/Rumsfeld Reception Committee (RRRC) has begun organising around the possibility of the inaugural meeting of the Asia Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate being
Marg Gleeson
Ever since the shock resignations last month of the NSW Labor government's three top ministers, it has been a turbulent time in state politics.
It started with new premier, Morris Iemma, and then-opposition leader John Brogden
According to a report on progress towards the Millennium Development Goals, announced on September 7, Cuba has the lowest infant mortality rate in Latin America — 5.6 deaths per thousand in 2004 — putting it on a par with developed countries. The
Sarah Stephen
The immigration department's website claims that as of August 26 there were 667 people still being held in detention. The department does not include in those figures the 27 asylum seekers remaining on Nauru. Villawood detention
Eva Cheng, Hanoi
Around 100 solidarity and left-wing activists travelled here from some 40 countries on August 31-September 2 to join the 82 million Vietnamese people in celebrating their 60 years of hard-won independence.
Throughout several days
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