By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — Striking unionists at the Dalrymple Bay coal loading terminal near Mackay voted on June 21 to return to work from June 23, to allow a hearing by the Australian Industrial Relations Commission to proceed on their demand to
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By Carla Gorton
The Howard government's plans to shift the cost of social spending from government to individuals will bring about a major increase in the personal indebtedness of low income earners. Students got a taste of this user-pays approach
By Kim Linden
MELBOURNE — "Victorians Under Siege? The Case for an Inquiry into the Victorian Police", a report by the police issues group of the Federation of Community Legal Centres, examines policing under the Kennett government since its
New additions to the Marx/Engels Internet Archive (http://csf.colorado.edu/psn/marx/) — The text of the following Marxist classics have been transcribed for access from the M/E Web site: Lessons of October by Trotsky (1924); Capital Vol. 3,
Efficiency
"An evacuation of small island nations threatened by rising sea levels might be more efficient than forcing industrialised countries to reduce emissions ... [said the] executive director of the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and
By Norm Dixon
The Papua New Guinea government is openly preparing a major military offensive against strongholds of the pro-independence Bougainville Revolutionary Army in the island's central and southern regions. Port Moresby has told villagers
Novel Without a NameBy Duong Thu HuongTranslated by Phan Huy Duong and Nina McPhersonPicador, 1995. 289 pp., $16.95Reviewed by Brendan Doyle Author Duong Thu Huong was 21 when she led a Communist Youth Brigade to the most heavily bombarded front of
By Alex Bainbridge
HUNTER VALLEY — The NSW Labor government has announced its intention to legislate to protect a polluting industry, this time the proposed Bengalla coal mine near Muswellbrook. The State Environmental Planning (Permissible
By Adam Hanieh
ADELAIDE — Western Mining Corporation is in the process of doubling the size of its mine at Olympic Dam in northern South Australia. 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly spoke to Steve Baker from Friends of the Earth about the mine, the potential
By Peter Montague
For most of history, humans were so puny, compared to the rest of nature, that the speed of technological change didn't matter. But since 1945, humans have become a major force that nature must reckon with. Human activities now
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — One of the ugliest attacks on human rights in recent Russian history took an ominous turn on June 10, when imprisoned anti-nuclear campaigner Alexander Nikitin was denied bail, and his trial was handed over from a
By Anthony Benbow
PERTH — "Governments talk of the benefits of micro-economic reform, but nobody talks about the effects of unemployment, which cost society far more than what we get in return. In Australia now the top 10% of the population have
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