Burmese target Canberra embassy
BY MARCUS PABIAN
CANBERRA — Fifty federal police were unable to prevent 200 Burmese pro-democracy demonstrators, chanting "Eliminate dictatorship", from staging a sit-in outside the Burmese government's embassy
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BY SEAN HEALY
MELBOURNE — Friends of the Earth Australia and the Melbourne University Student Union have condemned the involvement of a corporate wing of the University of Melbourne in illegal oil and gas exploration in Pakistan's Kirthar
On May 17 approximately 300,000 workers across Russia participated in protests against the government's proposal to introduce a draconian new labour code. The new legislation removes workers' rights that have been held for decades, renders trade
Allende in his own words
Salvador Allende Reader: Chile's Voice of Democracy — Ocean Press, Melbourne287pp., $29.95 Review by Jorge Jorquera
Thirty years after his election to the post of president of Chile in September 1970, Ocean Press has
BY SEAN HEALY
When top political and business leaders gather at Melbourne's Crown Casino for the September 11-13 World Economic Forum's Asia Pacific Economic Summit, they will do more than slap each other's backs and compare notes on corporate
BY MARGARET ALLUM
"Financial living standards after divorce", a report based on research by the Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS), shows that the financial situations of women and men after a relationship breakdown remain consistent
Thousands of people around the country turned "Sorry Day", May 26, into a day of protest against the federal government's policies on indigenous rights, in particular its attempt to deny the suffering inflicted on the generations of Aboriginal
BY GRAINNE DWYER
PERTH — Federal immigration minister Philip Ruddock and his state counterpart Rob Johnson defended Australia's harsh treatment of refugees at a public meeting here on May 12, claiming the policy was not racist. "Australia of
May Day in Iraqi Kurdistan
On May Day, 10,000 workers gathered at the centre of Erbil city and were addressed by Nasik Ahmad, a leader of the Worker Communist Party of Iraq. In Sulaymaniyah, the WCPI May Day committee organised and led a
A massive slap in the face for Howard
The racist policies of John Howard's government took a big blow in Sydney on May 28. As 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly went to press, hundreds of thousands of people were walking across Sydney's Harbour Bridge in a massive
Trade unions plan action on Fiji
BY NORM DIXON
Fiji's President Ratu Kamisese Mara formally sacked Labour Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry and his government on May 27. Parliament has been suspended for six months. A minister in the Fiji Labour
NORWAY: Strike ends in victory
A six-day private sector strike in Norway by 85,000 workers (one-third of the private sector work force) has won most of the strikers' main demands. On May 25, almost 79% of the workers involved voted to accept the
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