BY KATHY NEWNAM
ADELAIDE — "With M1, the people's movement is taking the initiative to protest against the rule of the corporate elite", declares the rallying call of M1 Adelaide, adopted at the coalition's February 7 meeting.
The statement
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BY KERRYN WILLIAMS
On January 30 more than 500 high school students and 300 urban poor youth, with the help of 15 buses, mobilised in Jakarta for the "Anti-New Order Tour". Organised by the Popular Youth Movement (GPK) and Jabotabek High School
The images appear thick and fast: a spaceship, a starving child, a computer, a barefoot peasant. The opening shots of a community TV documentary? No. The "Flash" intro sequence on an activist group's web site? No. This was the
BY RICHARD PITHOUSE
DURBAN — Lotus Park is a ghetto with a view. The unpainted, cracked,
leaking blocks of flats sit on a hill in Isipingo, south of Durban. In
the valley, you can seen the houses of the rich and, along the freeway,
you can
BY MELANIE SJOBERG
Rubbing shoulders with the 3200 corporate and political heavyweights at the World Economic Forum summit in Davos, Switzerland, was one lone Australian trade union official: ACTU president Sharan Burrow. Maybe she thought it was a
BY TONY ILTIS
MELBOURNE — A native title claim by the Yorta Yorta people for a small portion of their traditional lands in the Murray-Goulburn region on the NSW-Victoria border was rejected by the full bench of the Federal Court on February 8.
BY DAVID HARRIS
BAMBRA — One of the "lungs" of Victoria, the Otway Ranges, is at a crossroads as the destructive practice of clear-fell logging is now cutting into irreplaceable bio-diverse native forests. This is at the expense of other forest
Sensitive, new-age genocide acceptable
"Israel may have been able to get away with a blatant process of ethnic displacement of millions of Palestinians from their homes in 1947, but this is 2001 and the world has been sensitised to such events."
“Any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest
form to any child at any stage of development.” — Jerome Seymour Bruner,
from The Process of Education (1960)
No matter how young or old one might be, politics is open to
BY NORM DIXON
The eminent barrister Horace Rumpole has often noted that the "golden thread running through the history of British justice" is that a defendant is innocent until proven guilty by the prosecution "beyond a reasonable doubt". Of
Federal Minister for Community Services Larry Anthony said on January 18 that he was "appalled" by the statistics that reveal one separated man suicides every day in this country. He was emphasising support for the federal government's $16.5 million
BY DANIEL NEWMAN
& BRONWYN POWELL
WOLLONGONG — At a meeting at Brandon Park on February 5, 3000 BHP
Port Kembla steelworkers voted for an immediate 24-hour strike, a series
of rolling stoppages and called for a national steel union
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