By Alex Bainbridge
HOBART — The salmon industry used the opportunity of a federal cabinet meeting here on August 3 to mobilise opposition to the government's decision to allow uncooked salmon to be imported. Around 500 people rallied in Franklin
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By Alex Bainbridge
HOBART — Thirty people protested against the reactionary policies of John Howard's Coalition government during a federal cabinet meeting here on August 3. The lively action contrasted with the larger but very tame salmon
Exhibition exposes ships of shame
By Ana Kailisand Claudia Beltran
PERTH — The Global Mariner exhibition is an awesome multimedia display of issues facing seafarers worldwide. The ship Global Mariner was purchased by the International Transport
By Natalie Zirngast
The classified version of the 1997 Australian defence policy document, leaked in the August 3 edition of the Bulletin, details a return to "forward defence". While the unclassified version made veiled references to concerns
Burmese students remember August 8
By Sean Healy
August 8 is the 11th anniversary of the 1988 uprising in Burma. On the 8/8/88, the entire country rose up against the corrupt and brutal regime of General Ne Win, in power since a military coup in
School bursar dispute continues
By Sue Bull
CANBERRA — Locked-out school bursars met with ACT education minister Bill Stefaniak on August 3 and came away empty handed. Stefaniak maintained he would have a proposal for the Community and Public
Herri Batasuna: for independence and socialism
91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly's CHOW WEI CHENG spoke to MIRIAN CAMPOS, from the international department of the left-wing Basque nationalist party Herri Batasuna, about recent developments in the Basque country
Venting my spleen
I cannot claim to possess oodles of imagination. But I have my moments. Sometimes I can envisage such bizarre delights that I can entertain myself for hours. Perhaps I really am a creative type person. An artist. A political
By Jim Green
Pacific islanders are organising to stop the passage of plutonium reactor fuel from Europe to Japan through South Pacific waters. Two ships carrying mixed uranium-plutonium (MOX) fuel will pass through the Tasman Sea in late August or
South African workers confront 'comrade ministers'
By Norm Dixon
South African worker militants struggling against the African National Congress (ANC) government's austere economic policies, privatisations and job losses are discovering an
The following is abridged from a statement by the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions (ICEM). US trade unionists demonstrated outside Texaco's Washington office on July 30 to protest against labour and human
Virtually perfect?
Reading about Webbie Tookay, the new "internet model", engineered to eradicate the need for "real" women to model clothes on the internet, I recalled a cartoon I saw many years ago when I was first noticing, and becoming
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