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'Never Race and class in the US: trust a son of a Bush' BY MALIK MIAH SAN FRANCISCO — “Never trust a son of a Bush.” This was one of many signs at George W. Bush's presidential inauguration in Washington on January 20. Some 25,000
BY JIM GREEN Three-hundred and sixty irradiated fuel rods were secretly shipped out of the nuclear reactor plant in the southern Sydney suburb of Lucas Heights on January 22. The irradiated (or "spent") fuel rods — vastly more radioactive than
BY BEN COLLINS MELBOURNE — Protesters staged a sit-in on the roof of the Maribyrnong detention centre here on January 24 to protest the appalling conditions in the centre and the policy of detaining asylum seekers. Seven protesters climbed onto
Editorial: Close the detention centres! Philip Ruddock, the federal minister for racism, has argued that last week's protests by asylum seekers at the Port Hedland detention facility were caused by a small group of “troublemakers” who were
BY NORM DIXON The United States' biggest corporations delivered more than US$35 million in 31 days to pay for George W. Bush's January 19-20 inauguration parties, the New York Times reported on January 18. Most of the money came in separate
BY MAX LANE In an end of year "state of the nation" report, the central leadership council of the Peoples Democratic Party (PRD) described economic developments during 2000 under the government of President Abdurrahman Wahid and Vice-President
Eat Flowers & Kiss BabiesCountry Joe McDonald and the Bevis FrondWoronzow Records<http://www.woronzow.com.uk> REVIEW BY BARRY HEALY If you are going to trip down memory lane, you should at least go with someone who knows the meaning of
BY VIV MILEY With more allegations emerging of full fee-paying students receiving preferential treatment and soft marking and universities accepting bribes, Australia's tertiary education system appears to be in a state of serious decay. The
BY TONY ILTIS& JUSTINE KAMPRAD MELBOURNE — Fourteen maintenance workers have set up a picket line outside the luxury Grand Hyatt Hotel after management locked them out on January 19. The lockout followed seven months of negotiations for an
BY JIM GREEN The federal government announced on January 24 its preferred sites in South Australia for a controversial national dump for about 10,000 cubic metres of low-level radioactive waste — much to the disgust of environmental groups and
BY ALISTAIR DICKINSON SYDNEY — A regional environment plan (REP) has been approved by the NSW Labor government that allows large-scale urban development on the 1535-hectare former Australian Defence Industries (ADI) factory site at St Marys, in
BY SEAN HEALY Undeterred by an unprecedented crackdown by Swiss police, several thousand anti-capitalist demonstrators have descended on the up-market ski resort town of Davos to protest the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) of top