New Zealanders have recently been hit by electricity price rises of up to 29%. The opposition Alliance says these rises are a consequence of the corporatisation and privatisation of power companies. Alliance energy spokesperson and deputy leader
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By Melanie Sjoberg
ADELAIDE — More than 1000 people rallied at Noarlunga in the southern suburbs on May 8 as part of the campaign against the state Liberal government's cuts to education. Around 100 schools were closed as part of the rolling
OSLO — The Norwegian government ignored scientific findings and flouted international norms to set a quota of 425 on the north-east Atlantic population of minke whales on May 4, according to Greenpeace Norway. In 1982, the International Whaling
Comment by Greg Adamson
The latest round of Community and Public Sector Union mass meetings against Howard's threatened 10% cut to the Australian public sector showed that the mood for a fight is strong among broad sectors of public sector workers.
Making the laws work
Making sexual harassment an offence under the law has been a positive step for women. However, as we are constantly reminded, it is only one step in creating a society free of sexual harassment.
On April 24, the Australian
NINA LANSBURY visited Iran in November. Here she presents some of her observations. I had an eerie feeling of living within my novel. I was reading George Orwell's 1984, and each time I glanced up from the pages of Big Brother, the large and always
By Nick Fredman
SYDNEY — A range of groups promoting solidarity with the East Timorese struggle for self-determination are holding events over the next few weeks. These events are designed to help build the August 25 National Day of Solidarity,
By Ben Reid
MELBOURNE — An estimated 2000 workers from the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) attended a stop-work meeting on May 8. Meetings were also held in other centres. The purpose was to reaffirm the union's push for a 15% pay rise
What is Nature?: Culture, Politics and the non-HumanBy Kate SoperBlackwell, 1995. 289 pp. $39.95Reviewed by Neville Spencer Concepts of what nature is and of what counts as natural feature both explicitly and implicitly in much progressive political
About 5000 Aboriginal organisations have been under attack by the federal Coalition government and the establishment media for being given too much money and for the "misuse" of funds. Many of these organisations, like regional councils in the bush,
But I'll try
"It's difficult to say that the [human rights] trend is getting better." — Allan Taylor, Australian ambassador to Indonesia, on the situation in East Timor.
Willing
"There seems to be, compared to last time I was here [East
The Dunblanes that are never news
By John Pilger
It is three weeks since Dunblane and the moving tributes delivered by John Major and other politicians to the child victims of guns. "We must keep our anger burning bright", said David Mellor MP.
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