On the evening of April 21, 60-year-old Fatin Abu Daqqa died after being refused permission by Israeli occupation forces to leave the Gaza Strip for medical treatment.
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The longer the debate about the proposed privatisation of New South Wales electricity goes on, the more people are convinced it聮s wrong and the less Premier Morris Iemma and treasurer Michael Costa care what we think.
Tasmanian public sector workers will be attending stopwork meetings in the week beginning May 5 to consider a government offer on wages and conditions. In a negotiation process that has dragged on for over 18 months, members of the Health and
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) welcomes the statement by a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson that the China Ocean Shipping Company, which owns the An Yue Jiang, has decided to recall the ship because Zimbabwe cannot take delivery of the 77 tonnes of weapons and ammunition onboard.
The recent decision by World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the Climate Institute to support carbon sequestration and storage (CCS) will set back Australia鈥檚 efforts to confront climate change, as well as increasing the costs of doing so.
A landmark legal case has begun against mining corporation Xstrata over claims that it 聯wilfully and negligently聰 caused toxic contamination of large parts of the north-western Queensland city of Mount Isa over decades.
In an unannounced visit to Baghdad on April 20, US Secretary Condoleezza Rice praised Nuri al Maliki, Iraq聮s Shiite prime minister, for 聯ordering聰 a military offensive last month in the Iraqi seaport city of Basra against anti-occupation Shiite cleric Moqtada al Sadr聮s Mahdi Army militia.
The following is an abridged version of a talk given by Terry Townsend at the recent Climate Change 聴 Social Change Conference in Sydney. Townsend is a long-term member of the Democratic Socialist Perspective and the managing editor of Links online journal (<http://links.org.au>).
In an unannounced visit to Baghdad on April 20, US Secretary Condoleezza Rice praised Nuri al Maliki, Iraq鈥檚 Shiite prime minister, for 鈥渙rdering鈥 a military offensive last month in the Iraqi seaport city of Basra against anti-occupation Shiite cleric Moqtada al Sadr鈥檚 Mahdi Army militia.
The 2020 summit was two days of political theatre for the new Rudd government. For 48 hours over April 19-20, film stars brushed white-board markers with Australia聮s richest, and politicians mixed with Indigenous people, unionists and youth delegates.
On April 24, as day broke over Canberra, red flags with yellow stars moved in columns throughout the city, held in the hands of marchers, fluttering from car aerials and hanging in the windows of hundreds of buses.
On April 23, Chicago-based aerospace and military contractor Boeing reported a 38% jump in first-quarter profits for 2008, amounting to a whopping US$1.2 billion. 鈥淲e鈥檙e off to a good start in what we expect to be another strong year of financial performance for Boeing鈥, chairperson, president and CEO Jim McNerney said.
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