Jabiluka: how can we win?
By Lachlan Malloch and Ray Fulcher
There has been a lot of debate recently about strategies for stopping the Jabiluka uranium mine. This has been stimulated by the release of the Gundjehmi Aboriginal Corporation's
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By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — On November 27, a Supreme Court judge here refused to order the release pending trial of Grigory Pasko, a Vladivostok naval journalist charged with treason after reporting on the dumping of nuclear waste by the Russian
Which bank?
"Stop bashing the banks", demanded the headline of the Financial Review editorial on November 26. The widespread public anger over fee increases, branch closures, job losses and reduction of services is unwarranted and irrational,
By Jacquie Moon
Many people were disgusted by last month's brutal murder of Matthew Shepherd, a young, gay US student. But there's also the story of Melbourne high school student James Anderson, who committed suicide after suffering continual
By Marie Oldman and Boadie Walters
In late October, we came across an intimidating sight: a three-storey-high Santa Claus bearing down on the mall from the adjacent department store. Looking somewhat like a giant human Coke can, he brings a message
Save Tasmania's forests!
HUON VALLEY — About 250 people on November 29 attended a forest picnic in the Tahune Reserve, in Tasmania's south-western forest, organised by the Wilderness Society as part of the campaign to stop logging in old-growth
This week in history
December 14, 1882: Australia's first women's trade union
In the 1880s, Melbourne's 4000 women tailors worked 12-16 hour shifts six days a week. More than half of these women came together in 1882 to launch the Victorian
Centrelink workers to continue strikes
By Melanie Sjoberg
On December 3, Community and Public Sector Union members employed at Centrelink endorsed state-by-state rolling half-day stoppages from December 8 to 17. This is the next step in the CPSU
South Korean church ejects workers
A contribution of the Catholic Church to South Korea's democracy struggle came to an abrupt end on November 27, when trade unionists hunted by the Kim Dae-jung regime — some since May — were kicked out of
Ramos Horta: 'A common struggle'
By Liam Mitchell
SYDNEY — The links between the struggle for freedom in East Timor and democracy in Indonesia were the focus of public meetings in Sydney and Melbourne on November 28 and December 3. Both
No reconciliation with racism!
After massively cutting the budget of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, extinguishing native title in all but name and giving the go-ahead to the destruction of Aboriginal women's sacred sites on
ACT government workers to strike
CANBERRA — ACT government workers will strike for 24 hours on December 17 if the ACT Liberal government fails to retract the threat of forced redundancies.
Meanwhile, workers in the ACT Chief Minister's
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