The censor in the machine
Internet growth statistics are mind numbing: hundreds of millions of
users, millions of web sites, and a flood of new content entering the sea
of the internet every day. This is a significant problem for the
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BY SUE BOLAND
At the beginning of the 20th century banks had a reputation as "bloodsuckers". Is it over-the-top to still describe them this way? When we consider the record of the major banks today (see accompanying article this page), this
BY PETER BOYLE
As more and more of the S11 activist groups around the country decide to make May 1 their next major mobilisation, the discussion now shifts to what kind of action should be organised for the day. The idea of a global strike against
Profits
The four biggest banks raked in record net profits this year: National Australia Bank ($3.24 billion); the Commonwealth Bank ($2.7 billion); ANZ ($1.747 billion); and Westpac ($1.715 billion). The combined total was $9.4 billion, $2.2
BY SARAH STEPHEN
The McClure report is the recently released federal government inquiry into welfare "reform". The report canvasses shifting functions undertaken by Centrelink to private or non-profit providers. It also suggests further tightening
BY EVA CHENG
The Indian coalition government led by the Hindu chauvinist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has stepped up its neo-liberal privatisation and economic liberalisation push. The 24-party government and its bourgeois counterparts are using
BY GEORGINA DAVIES
MELBOURNE — A 24-hour stop work meeting by 250 members of the Latrobe Valley branch of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) caused power blackouts and restrictions across Victoria.
The workers voted to
BY GEORGINA DAVIES
MELBOURNE — Victoria Police have agreed to pay $50,000 to seven environment activists who were assaulted during a peaceful demonstration by 20 people in February 1994. The East Gippsland Forest Alliance protesters are to
BY RICHARD PITHOUSE
DURBAN — From Boksburg to Berlin, discerning ears are being seduced by a record label that measures its success in the currency of meaning. If this culture reaches critical mass, "the global village" might just stop being a
BY CAM PARKER
SYDNEY — Recent allegations of left-wing bias at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation are little more than justifications for greater political interference by the federal Coalition government.
The big-business newspapers have
Billy Elliot
Directed by Stephen Daldry
With Jamie Bell and Julie WaltersÂ
REVIEW BY ADAM GOLDSTEIN
The depiction of British working-class life in films, beginning in
the late-1950s, emerged full-bloom in the 1990s. It has taken
BY SEAN HEALY
While trade bureaucrats from the rich countries begin negotiations in Geneva to extend the World Trade Organisation's Agreement on Agriculture, a new report released by the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) shows
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