BY KATHY FAIRFAX
SYDNEY — Since the late 1940s, successive Australian governments have debated the need for a second Sydney airport. As many as 20 possible sites have been suggested and more than half of those have been closely examined.
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BY ROBERT MILNE
MELBOURNE — It is 7.20am, on March 17 — the official opening day of the 2001 duck hunting season. A shooter stands in the frigid water dressed in camouflage. A flock of black ducks approaches. A loud whistle shatters the peace.
The M1 Alliance here launched its May 1 blockade of the Northern Territory Chamber of Commerce on March 23, drawing an overwhelming response from passers-by when they asked them to vote for who they thought should be labelled the worst "corporate scumbag".
BY ANGELA LUVERA
SYDNEY — Emily Low, a Resistance activist, spoke at an Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor (ASIET) organised forum, Indonesia: students on the frontline fighting the IMF — an eyewitness report, at the University
BY SALLY HYSLOP
PERTH — Students at Murdoch University were horrified to learn that a wave of sexual assaults has occurred on campus since the start of the year. The silence and inaction of university administration have provoked outrage among
BY JENNY LONG
SYDNEY — Unions at the NSW Labor Council meeting on March 29 vowed to campaign against changes to workers' compensation which the state ALP government is attempting to ram through.
Industrial relations minister and ALP right
BY MARGARET GLEESON, LINDA WALDRON & RAY FULCHER
NEW DELHI — The rising popular movement against corporate globalisation had caused a crisis of legitimacy for, and deep divisions within, the world's ruling elite, and now had to press its
On Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology's city campus, the Global Action club, which is building the May 1 (M1) protest at RMIT, is campaigning against the corporatisation of education.
BY LENA NAHLOUS
SYDNEY — The first Sydney Arab Film Festival will showcase international and local contemporary films, as well as experimental and documentary films. The festival will include classic Arab films loved and watched by
BY MOLLY WISHART
SYDNEY — Three hundred people attended a rally at Cronulla on March 25 to protest the federal government's plan to build a new reactor in the nearby southern Sydney suburb of Lucas Heights.
Cronulla was chosen as he site of the
Canadian journalist NAOMI KLEIN is one of the chief spokespeople of the anti-corporate globalisation movement. Her book, No Logo, foretold the events of Seattle in 1999. She explained how many young people are fed up with corporations for all kinds
ADELAIDE — Howard was given a roasting on March 25 by opponents who had gathered to raise funds for Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly. After Howard cracked under the pressure and nearly fell off the spit, debates ensued as to whether he had become twisted because
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