By Tom Flanagan
Mining of the Jabiluka uranium deposit appears set to gain federal government approval following meetings last week between Energy Resources Australia (ERA) boss Phillip Shirvington and the new federal Minister for Resources and
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Choices: Women Getting Involved — Many women feel so strongly about the obstacles in their lives that they become motivated to get involved in politics. Often this is at the community level and sometimes even parliament. In this program we
By Anthony Brown
BRISBANE — Lost in all the rhetoric of the federal election, an important event occurred at Griffith University here in mid-February. On February 18, 50 people, representing some 220 of south-east Queensland's local
A crowd estimated at 120,000 rallied in the streets of Hamilton, a steel town near Toronto, against the conservative provincial government of Ontario on February 24. The Tory government plans to slash public spending and social services. The
Jose Gil Olmos, writer, Elio Hernandez, correspondent
San Cristobal de las Casas, March 8 — In one of the largest concentrations of indigenous women ever in the state, nearly 5000 Zapatistas from the jungle, the highlands and the border area
By Dirk Hartford
JOHANNESBURG — It was reminiscent of the heady mass struggles of the '80s. For four hours on January 28, several hundred trade unionists listened to fiery speeches from workers and trade union leaders denouncing the government
It didn't take long for new treasurer Peter Costello to sound the lament, as every incoming government now does, about the cupboard being bare. We've been told by the treasurer that there is an underlying deficit of $7.6 billion. Not that this
By Afrodity Giannakis
SYDNEY — The March 20 half-day strike by members of the NSW Teachers Federation was well received by large 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ of the community. About 300 associations across the state lobbied politicians in support of the teachers'
"Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount." — George Bernard Shaw
Ms Stewart was very near despairing as she looked out of the window because she had no food and because she had only 25 cents left. She was
A March 8 meeting of thousands of men and women celebrating International Women's Day at a hall in the city of Erbil, in Iraqi Kurdistan, was attacked by armed Islamist groups. In addition to the harassing and assaulting of large numbers of women's
NixonDirected by Oliver StoneStarring Anthony HopkinsReviewed by Russell Pink Oliver Stone is not your average Hollywood "molestation and mayhem" director pursuing an easy Oscar. He an important, complex, if sometimes annoying creator of films about
George Brown was an elder from the Wreck Bay community. He began his successful struggle for land rights for his people in the early '70s. Like all Aboriginal land rights struggles, it was long and tiring, but it culminated after more than 20 years
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