BY CHRIS SLEE
MELBOURNE — The Australian Tax Office is preparing to sack thousands of its workers, following a 9% cut in the department's funding announced in the May federal budget.
The tax office has taken on several thousand new workers in
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BY SARAH PEART
MELBOURNE — "We need to fight in the factories and in the communities to build a new international movement that is strong enough to take on the bosses' system", Martin Mitterhauser, an anti-corporate activist just back from last
BY MAX LANE
Militant trade union leader and former political prisoner Dita Sari has been awarded the Raymond Magsaysay Award, considered an Asian Nobel Prize, for being a "leader of new forces in Asia".
The chairperson of the Indonesian National
These are born in your children. They go fishing. They shake everything out. Once there were men and women who tried to hide history, to bury it in the bed of the sea where they believed sound sleep possible. Their hands were huge but not real. They
Rio Tinto
“Wherever we operate, we work as closely as possible with our hosts,
respecting laws and customs minimising, adverse impacts and ensuring transfer
of benefits and enhancement of opportunities.” — Rio Tinto 2000 Annual
Review.
BY SEAN HEALY
Humans have made all kinds of nifty things — the axe, the wheel, the spinning jenny, the aeroplane, the pill, the Pentium III computer chip — and achieved all sorts of things with them. But these inventions have not freed society.
Starting From ZeroA documentary by Mandy King & Fabio CavadiniScreening on SBS, Friday, August 17, 8.30pm
REVIEW BY FIONA CROCKFORD
Starting from Zero profiles the return home in October 1999 of three East Timorese exiles following the decisive
BY IGGY KIM
Left parties and activists around the world have enthusiastically welcomed a further step in the international process of socialist renewal and regroupment. The Socialist Alliance's first national conference received 41 greetings of
Seven years after the African National Congress swept to office on the promise of "a better life for all", the patience of South Africa's working class and poor is wearing thin. Across the country, community organisation and mobilisation is beginning
Just ArtShowing August 8-1531 Woods Street, Darwin
REVIEW BY JO ELLIS
Opened by Dadang Christano on August 8, this eclectic collection of artworks by local and international artists, explored the themes of democracy, peace and freedom.
Taring
BY EVA CHENG
Companies in the US planned to lay off 205,975 workers in July, 65% more than in June. These new cuts bring the total US job losses so far this year to nearly a million, three times those over the same period last year.
Such cuts are
Sydney community radio station 2SER's annual radiothon is on again — and
the station is after your support.
The radiothon, which began on August 10 and runs until August 17, is one of the main ways by which the station, long a centre of
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