BY JON LAND
When news of the killings in West Timor of workers from the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) by pro-Jakarta militia reached Prime Minister John Howard, he acted quickly to show support for the Indonesian government
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A National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) spectrometer has detected an Antarctic ozone hole three times larger than the land mass of the United States, the largest such hole ever observed.
The hole expanded to a record size of
Last week in Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly, I outlined figures which indicate that the Australian public has so far lost around $13 billion to private capitalists through the privatisation of half of Telstra. This is the case even though shares in the second
BY SIMON BUTLER
Nike is the world market leader in sports shoes. Its profits amounted to US$965 million in 1999. This huge figure in part flows from the sales generated from the vast volume of advertising Nike subjects the planet to. But mostly,
BY SUSAN PRICE
MELBOURNE — The Media, Arts and Entertainment Alliance (MEAA) announced on September 14 that it would support its members taking legal action against the Victoria Police for its use of violent tactics during the September 11-13
If you relied on media like the Age and the Sydney Morning Herald for coverage of the S11 protests, you wouldn't have seen images like these (both papers are members of the WEF).
The blockaders stood firm against assaults by police and the
MANILA — "Fight for ILO 167!" was the main chant taken up by some 5000 building workers here on September 10 as they marched to the Cultural Centre near the Manila Bay foreshore.
The march was to demand the immediate implementation by the
BY RICHARD PITHOUSE
There are not too many working-class heroes who are known as the "Boss". Bruce Springsteen's fans hang out everywhere from cyber-shrines and academic conferences to battered bars on the wrong side of town. And while a bikie
Sodexho Alliance, a multinational based in France, and its Australian
division, Sodexho Australia, won the contract to cater for several Olympic
venues — Stadium Australia, the Olympic village (for sponsors and the media)
and the Sydney Opera
BY PETER BOYLE
Thousands of activists from the mass social movements of the last three decades joined with younger activists in a massive show of strength at the S11 blockade. It was a profoundly empowering event that revitalised faith in "people's
Big still eats small
There's an internet saying, “On the internet, no-one knows you're
a dog”. The same idea comes through in a series of IBM commercials targeted
at small businesses thinking about getting on to the internet. This
BY SUE BOLAND
Queensland Premier Peter Beattie created a media furore on August 20 when he called for an inquiry into the impact of the GST on petrol price rises. With petrol prices having leapt to over $1 a litre in places, Beattie's comments
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