'Pro-women policies the issue'
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — "The main issue in the current debate in the ALP about more women MPs is not just how to get more women into parliament, but how to promote more pro-women policies", Democratic
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Timber companies recently halted logging in protest over the Papua New Guinea government's new forestry guidelines. But a controversial amendment has been defeated, and the Asian-dominated industry now faces a higher log export tax and a ban on
Further developments
By Tony Hastings
Following a Wet Tropics Ministerial Council meeting in Mackay on April 13, the federal minister for the environment, Senator John Faulkner, announced, "Ministerial Council has made a decision for no
By Andrew B. Rens
CAIRNS — In a public demonstration of outrage at the proposed Kuranda Skyrail, more than 400 people marched here on April 16. The rally, organised by People Against Kuranda Skyrail (PAKS), condemned the Queensland
Strike at National Bookstore
By Ray Fulcher and Rachel Evans
MANILA — Workers at the Philippines' largest book and stationery chain, the National Bookstore (NBS), have been on strike for over a month.
Of the 1800 people employed in
By Jolyon Campbell
MELBOURNE— Members of the Bosnian, Croatian, Albanian, Macedonian and other communities rallied here on Friday April 22 and Sunday the 24th to protest against the continuing atrocities of the Bosnian war and the failure of
NZ child-care scam exposed
By Ian Powell
WELLINGTON — Child-care has not been immune to the drive from the mid-1980s towards deregulation and privatisation in New Zealand. Private child-care facilities are able to receive government
The tradition of marking May Day as an international day of workers' struggle began in Australia as early as 1856 in the effort to win the eight-hour workday.
By Ray Fulcher and Rachel Evans
MANILA — 3000 leaders of urban poor communities in Metro Manila met on April 25 at Trinity College, Quezon City, to declare their unity in demanding full employment and decent housing.
The meeting is the
By Craig Cormick
Based on highly reliably international contacts, leaked documents and horoscopes from several TV magazines, Nostradamus' Media Watch presents a highly accurate forecast of political events across the globe.
In an effort to
By Frank Enright
Unemployment is growing in all the advanced industrial countries despite several of these economies coming out of recession. In March, ministers from the Group of Seven (G-7), the most powerful industrial countries, met in
By Dave Wright
MELBOURNE — 800 to 1000 students attended a march and rally on April 28 to protest against the Kennett Liberal government's introduction on Voluntary Student Unionism (VSU) legislation.
The Tertiary Education Amendment Bill
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