Prisons 'out of bounds' for media
BY KAREN FREDERICKS
BRISBANE — Queensland police have charged three women prisoners and a journalist with criminal offences after an article appeared in the Townsville Bulletin alleging abusive treatment in the
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PAKISTAN: Journalists appeal for help
LAHORE — Police raided the Lahore Press Club on July 10 in an attempt to arrest a small traders' leader holding a press conference inside the building. Twenty-four journalists who sought to deny the police
GM food — myth and reality
BY DANIEL JARDINE
The proponents of using genetically modified organisms in food put forward six main reasons as to why GMOs are needed. All six are false and deliberately misleading. Myth 1: GMOs are needed to "feed
Making a living? Having a life?
BY JONATHAN SIGNER
Did the living standards and quality of life of workers improve in the 1990s? The answer is dependent on two questions: what goods and services could they access from their disposable incomes and
Women students' conference heads left
BY SARAH CLEARY & APRIL-JANE FLEMING
ADELAIDE — Feminist students have described as a significant shift leftwards this year's Network of Women Students Australia (NOWSA) conference, held at Flinders
Unionists oppose unjust world economic order
BY MELANIE SJOBERG
The protests in Seattle and Washington against the global corporate rich have become a catalyst for activity in the struggle for a more humane and just world. In Melbourne on
On the evening of June 1, David Russell, senior solicitor at the British law firm Towells, received an unexpected phone call. Rio Tinto, the world's largest mining corporation, wanted to surrender. Russell was representing former Rio Tinto workers,
Hospital dispute grows bitter
BY STAN THOMPSON
BRISBANE — Despite early signs of a breakthrough, the hospital workers' pay dispute escalated last week, with stop-work meetings and 24-hour strikes in dozens of hospitals across the state. Labor
Editorial : Support democracy in Fiji
The Great Council of Chiefs (GCC) appointment on July 14 of coup leader George Speight's nominees, Ratu Josefa Iloilo as Fiji's president on July 13 and Ratu Jope Senilopi as vice-president, marked the
UN report shows poverty grinds on
The benefits of increased global trade, investment, technology and economic growth are not flowing through to the world's poorest people, a new United Nations report released on June 29 has found. Worldwide, 1.2
ECUADOR: Church calls cops on activists
Friends of the Earth (FoE) Australia has called on supporters of environmental and social justice to protest against the detention of activists in Ecuador. On July 10, a group of more than 50 peasant,
The history of the eradication of the Haitian Creole pig population in the 1980s is a classic parable of globalisation.
Haiti's small, black, Creole pigs were at the heart of the peasant economy. An extremely hearty breed, well adapted to Haiti's
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