BY BRONWEN BEECHEY
ADELAIDE — The 2001 Womadelaide world music festival, held February 16-18, attracted a record 67,000 people. They braved high temperatures to hear an inspiring and exciting line-up of musicians from around the globe.
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Members of the Australian Defence Industries Residents Action Group and supporters picketed federal Liberal MP Jackie Kelly's office in Penrith on February 15, to oppose the proposed residential development on the heritage-listed ADI site at St
BY ROHAN PEARCE
A growing mood of active opposition to corporate globalisation is emerging among Australia's university students, if campus "orientation weeks" are anything to judge by. The socialist youth organisation Resistance has joined over
BY MAX LANE
Despite the humiliating forced resignation of Indonesian President Suharto in May 1998, the political machine that he built during his 33-year reign has remained virtually intact.
Suharto's son may be on the run from a prison sentence
BY ANTHONY BENBOW
PORT HEDLAND — "BHP posted out 537 workplace agreements. We've got over 400 of them piled here in the union office, still in the envelopes. We expect another 70 or so when people return from annual leave. Probably 20 more were
BY GREG HARRIS
GLASGOW — The third annual conference of the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) held here February 10-11 adopted an ambitious program of activities for the coming months. Key among these were a decision to contest all of Scotland's 72
BY JIM McILROY
BRISBANE — A bulletin issued by the Community and Public Sector Union to Centrelink staff on February 22 reported that "Recent media reports have exposed a plan by the federal government to impose a new 'fee for service' funding
BY VIV MILEY
SYDNEY — The dean of arts at the University of New England in Armidale has agreed to "sell" the department of modern Greek studies and its students to the University of New South Wales for $2 million.
Head lecturer of modern Greek
BY SEAN HEALY
"An absolutely classic emerging market panic" was one Western investment banker's cold-blooded diagnosis, but for 65 million citizens of Turkey the February 22 collapse of their currency, the lira, was a disaster which may rival in
Clubbing the competition
Picture this: two computer operating systems are fighting it out
for control of millions of personal computers around the world (the operating
system is the fundamental piece of software which allows a computer
BY ANNA BARNES& BETTINA QUATACKER
BRISBANE — Steritech, the company that has proposed the construction of a nuclear irradiation plant for Narangba in Brisbane, has applied to the Australia New Zealand Food Authority (ANZFA) to allow the nuclear
BY DANTE TAGLE
SYDNEY — "There is no such thing as an illegal refugee", Iraqi community leader Zainab Al Turkey told the 50 anti-racists who crammed into an upstairs room of Parramatta's Town Hall on February 26 to launch the Free the Refugees
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