BY NORM DIXON
The May 2000 armed coup that overthrew the democratically elected Fiji Labour Party government has been formalised and legitimised. With the swearing in of a coalition government dominated by the two key Melanesian-Fijian chauvinist
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@box text intr = In the days following the September 11 attacks on New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon, millions of Australians were glued to their television sets, fixated by horror and aching empathy for the victims.
The disaster could
BY TIM STEWART
BRISBANE — Despite the Queensland premier's challenge to publicly debate anti-CHOGM protesters on the issue of globalisation, Peter Beattie failed to show at the launch of the CHOGM Action Network on September 5.
Under the theme
BY SARAH SEXTON
Amid the shouts of demonstrators, the protests of Southern delegations and the disagreements between the United States and European Union, the World Trade Organisation failed to launch a comprehensive revision of international trade
BY PETER JOHNSTON
DARWIN — Larrikiah elder June Mills has been pre-selected as the Socialist Alliance's candidate for the Senate in the Northern Territory.
Mills, who has previously run as a Senate candidate for the NT Greens, will be joined on
BY TIM GOODEN
MELBOURNE — Wild allegations and mud slinging are expected to come thick and fast during the first weeks of the federal government's royal commission into allegations of corruption in the building industry, due to begin in early
BY ALISON DELLIT
In the wake of the September 11 mass murder in the United States, Australians from Middle Eastern backgrounds and Muslims are suffering escalating verbal and physical abuse. The most serious incident has been the petrol bombing of
BY SARAH PEART
MELBOURNE — On the first anniversary of the September 11-13 protest against the World Economic Forum, anti-corporate activists organised an all-day protest outside the city's main Nike store. It was the 26th successive week of
BY GRAHAM WILLIAMS
GEELONG — "For too long now ordinary workers have had to suffer while governments, both Liberal and Labor, have implemented their big business policies. It's time that workers had an opportunity to stand up", says Tim Gooden,
BY JOHN PILGER
LONDON — If the attacks on the United States have their source in the Islamic world, who can really be surprised?
Two days earlier, eight people were killed in southern Iraq when British and US planes bombed civilian areas. To my
BY ALANA KERR
SYDNEY — In the last two weeks, four branches of the Socialist Alliance in metropolitan Sydney have pre-selected their lower house candidates for the upcoming federal election. These candidates, in the seats of Kingsford Smith,
BY NIKKI ULASOWSKI
For several months, activists in Brisbane have been busy organising for the protests at the October 6 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.
"We have been campaigning on campuses and on the streets and have found significant
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