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Lucas Heights reactor from 'Dodgy brothers'

Lucas Heights reactor from 'Dodgy brothers' BY JIM GREEN The federal Coalition government has been embarrassed by revelations about Investigaciones Aplicadas (Invap), the Argentinean company contracted to build a nuclear reactor in the southern

Demanding reproductive freedom

Demanding reproductive freedom LISMORE — Twenty-five activists organised by the Southern Cross University Queer Collective held a sit-in at the office of federal National Party MP Ian Causley to oppose the Coalition government's proposed changes

Sacked workers seek action from ALP

Sacked workers seek action from ALP BY MELANIE SJOBERG MELBOURNE — The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) Victorian secretary Craig Johnston has called on Victorian Labor Premier Steve Bracks to intervene to prevent the closure of

Special appeal from Brandon Astor Jones

Brandon Astor Jones, the author of the weekly "Looking Out" column in Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly, believes that the prison authorities are withholding his personal mail. He usually receives 10 to 50 letters a week, but for the past few months he has been

S11: Media sell us the rope to hang them

Media sell us the rope to hang them BY JODY BETZIEN MELBOURNE — The planned September 11 protests have become the story of the moment for the corporate media — and the most screaming of the screaming headlines are being devoted to a planned

Why Pearson is wrong on Aboriginal welfare

Why Pearson is wrong on Aboriginal welfare BY SIMON BUTLER Former Labor prime minister Ben Chifley was no radical. He was a staunch supporter of the "white Australia policy" and infamously called in the army to break the coalminers' strike in

Life of Riley: Mal returns to form

Mal returns to form 'Tis a delightful irony of Australian politics that Malcolm Fraser should reinvent himself as a radical. Anyone who has been cohabiting with the man within the four walls of Australia these last so many years knows that Big

INDIA: Death of Marxist Arvind N. Das

Death of Indian Marxist Arvind N. Das Distinguished Indian Marxist intellectual Arvind N. Das died on August 7, just a month before he would have turned 52, in Amsterdam's Free University Hospital. A fortnight earlier, he had suffered a cardiac

Workers draw line at Godfrey Hirst

Workers draw line at Godfrey Hirst BY TIM GOODEN GEELONG — A two-week strike at the Godfrey Hirst carpet factory looks set to escalate this week with textile workers likely to join members of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU)

IRAQ: US, Britain bomb civilian targets

IRAQ: US, Britain bomb civilian targets IRAQ: US, Britain bomb civilian targets United States and British warplanes attacked sites in northern Iraq on August 15. This followed heavy bombardment in southern Iraq on August 10-12. The air strikes

Left debates S11 blockade tactics

COMMENT BY JORGE JORQUERA MELBOURNE — Prime Minister John Howard and Victorian Premier Steve Bracks are now both on record decrying planned September 11 (S11) protests against the World Economic Forum as likely to be "violent". The protest

THAILAND: Villagers seize dam, demand justice

THAILAND: Villagers seize dam, demand justice VILLAGE OF THE POOR, northern Thailand — It's early morning in the Kaeng Tana National Park and I'm on the verandah of a guesthouse overlooking the wide brown Moon River, just above its confluence