BY MARIA VOUKELATOS& LAUREN CARROLL HARRIS
"What if she doesn't worry about her body and eats enough for all the growing she has to do? She might rip her stockings and slam dance on a forged ID to the Pogues, and walk home barefoot, holding her
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The emergence of anti-capitalist sentiment in the First World, following the protests against the World Trade Organisation meeting in Seattle in 1999, represents a significant crack in the politics of quiescence. It follows years of opposition
Universal income
John Tomlinson (GLW #442) calls for a universal citizens' income. The right vehemently opposes this idea, but isn't it being hypocritical?
Conservative Paddy McGuinness (Sydney Morning Herald, February 10) rejects the idea that
BY JOHN McGILL
ADELAIDE — An attempt to sack maintenance workers employed at Mobil's Port Stanvac plant in South Australia was exposed by the Australian on April 12. Mobil is the Australian subsidiary of US-owned oil giant ExxonMobil.
According
BY LIAM MITCHELL
As the Easter holiday break hit, Ansett Airlines was warned by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) that its license to operate could be cancelled due to continuing safety problems through missed maintenance schedules.
BY ALISON DELLIT
On May 1, tens of thousands of people will take to streets across Australia to protest against the sacrifice of human needs to rapacious corporate greed. The M1 stock exchange blockades will be the latest skirmishes in the battle
Dubious message
"Ann and I will carry out this equivocal message to the world: Markets must be open." — George W. Bush, at the swearing-in ceremony for US agriculture secretary Ann Veneman, March 2, 2001.
Free market system
"We don't think
BY TANYA VANAJA
DILI — East Timor's social and political tensions may boil over into violence during elections scheduled for August, the country's first since it gained freedom from Indonesian military rule in 1999.
Riots have broken out in two
All out on M1!
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Something special will happen on May 1. For the first time ever in Australia,
thousands of people will take action, simultaneously across the country,
against the stock exchange, the symbolic heart and soul
The REAL: Life on Film documentary festival provides a dynamic forum for documentaries exploring issues of cultural identity, human rights and provides a voice for those otherwise muffled by bigotry, poverty and war.
The not-for-profit festival,
BY JO BROWN
MELBOURNE — The North has an ecological debt to the South that must be paid, Friends of the Earth (FoE) International chairperson Ricardo Navarro told a public meeting here on April 18.
The meeting, "Global environmentalism in the
BY LUKE FOMIATTI
SYDNEY — On an internet increasingly dominated by slick corporate
web sites advertising their latest products and full of information of
(at best) dubious reliability, it's a welcome change to see something completely
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