Emission excuses compound embarrassment
BY SEAN HEALY
Friends of the Earth (FoE) Australia has described as "embarrassing" new figures which show a massive blowout in Australia's greenhouse gas emissions, to 16.9% above 1990 levels. The group has
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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
BY JUSTIN RANDELL
BRISBANE — Activists here have described as a big step forward the July 7 merger of local anti-corporate groups into an S11 Alliance to plan and build local participation in protests against the World Economic Forum meeting in
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.
Shed a tear for the marketeers of the last decade: technology had finally provided the ability to bombard a billion people with the same advertising message, but in most cases no one wanted to listen. Marketing is that area of modern commerce where
Abortion doctors reinstated
BY MARY MERKENICH
MELBOURNE — The Royal Women's Hospital announced on July 10 that it would reinstate three medical workers suspended for performing a late-term abortion on a 40-year-old woman who discovered that her
Rock Against Racism 2
The Urban Guerillas are performing at Rock Against Racism 2 in Sydney, Thursday August 10, 7.30pm, Harbourside Brasserie. Proceeds go to Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly, Art Resistance and the Indigenous Students Network. Phone Jill on 9596
Derogatory and insulting
"George Wallace, Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond became regional leaders, not in spite of, but because of, their overt appeals to our racism. And no matter how much we try to look the other way and pretend that [it is]
Unionists set upon by cops, then lawyers
BY ALANA KERR
SYDNEY — Having failed to keep construction union officials out of enterprise agreement negotiations at its Rooty Hill factory on July 7, giant construction parts company CSR has now
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — While it poses as the heroic opponent of federal government support for genetically modified organisms, the Tasmanian Labor government is yet to take any concrete measures against it, or even against controversial
Police close Aboriginal concert
BY KAREN FREDERICKS
BRISBANE — Police have been accused of racism after 12 officers raided the Melbourne Hotel in the suburb of West End on July 7, shutting down a National Aboriginal and Islander Day of
ARGENTINA: Mothers of Plaza de Mayo attacked
The following statement was issued by Argentina's Mothers of Plaza de Mayo on July 3 to support groups around the world. The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo campaigns for the disappeared. In the early hours of
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