Unlike the corporate-owned press, Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly has never been supportive of Pauline Hanson or her racist politics. Quite the opposite — we have actively built opposition to the kind of racist scapegoating that Hanson peddles.
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SAN FRANCISCO - In a small victory for legal immigrants, the US Supreme Court weakened a series of laws adopted by Congress in 1996 that limited the rights of foreign-born legal residents. The decisions by a narrow 5 to 4 margin means the immigration
BY MELANIE SJOBERG
The web-based Workers Online (<www.workers.labor.net.au>) published by the NSW Labor Council received a major plug in the June 5 Media supplement of the Australian. Workers Online was praised for offering innovative
BY MELANIE SJOBERG
Have you wondered why the supermarket shelves are looking a little thin in the yoghurt section lately?
Food multinational Nestle, which supplies the bulk of yoghurt products to supermarkets, locked 100 workers out of its Echuca
"For those who've come across the seas, we've boundless plains to share." — From Advance Australia Fair.
It's an irony that despite the refrain of the Australian national anthem, many people express alarm and fear about an immigration policy
BY SHANE BENTLEY
NEWCASTLE — Friday July 13 was an unlucky day for federal defence minister Peter Reith. Newcastle business leaders were not the only people he met at the Forgacs Dockyard in Carrington.
More than 100 Forgacs workers, members of
BY SARAH STEPHEN
The Australian Workers Union went before the Industrial Relations Commission on July 16 to seek guarantees of a safe working environment for a group of its members. Nothing new in that - except that the members in this case were 90
@box text intr = Multilateral debt: is money owed to international financial organisations such as the IMF and World Bank, as well as regional development banks such as the African Development Bank. Forty-five per cent of HIPC debt is multilateral.
How To Take An Exam... And Remake The WorldBy Bertell OllmanBlack Rose Books, 2001191 pp, US$19.99 (pb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
How's this for the dream exam! There is one paper consisting of just 10 true/false questions. You know the correct
BY PATRICK BOND& KAREN BAKKER
VANCOUVER — The July 5-8 Blue Planet conference opened with a call by Maude Barlow to promote "a global water revolution". Barlow, chairperson of the Council of Canadians — a 100,000-member citizens' group, added:
BY SARAH STEPHEN
A new provision in Australia's immigration intake for 2001-02 allows overseas students to apply to settle in Australia once they have graduated, without first having to return to their home country.
Australia's immigration levels
BY JAMES VASSILOPOULOS
Anti-corporate protesters are planning huge protests when heads of government of the Group of Eight (G8) leading industrial powers come to the Italian port city of Genoa on July 20. The peaceful civil disobedience actions,
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