BY SUE BOLAND
Queensland Premier Peter Beattie created a media furore on August 20 when he called for an inquiry into the impact of the GST on petrol price rises. With petrol prices having leapt to over $1 a litre in places, Beattie's comments
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More than 150 deaths around the world have been linked to defective Firestone tyres fitted to Ford motor vehicles. The deadly problem involves the tread separating from the tyre.
According to Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman, writing in their
"... and ain't i a woman?" last week said that the National Council of Women of Australia, the YWCA and the Australian Federation of Business and Professional Women would each receive $300,000 in funding from the Office of the Status of Women. This
S11 protests
I am a long-time Labor voter and a delegate of the Community and Public Sector Union at my workplace. Last weekend I travelled to Melbourne to visit my family, and to attend the non-violent protest against the World Economic Forum.
MOSCOW — August was a fateful month for the Russian authorities. There was a terrorist explosion in Pushkin Square, then the sinking of the nuclear submarine Kursk, and, on August 27, the Ostankino television tower caught fire. What happened to the
BY SEAN HEALY
MELBOURNE — At the end, those blockading the World Economic Forum were exhausted and euphoric, in equal measure, but with only a taste for the magnitude of what they'd achieved. At S11, the veil which separates the people from the
BY SIMON BUTLER & BRONWEN BEECHEY
Ten Iraqi asylum seekers, charged with inciting the desperate riots at the Woomera detention centre in August, are now being systematically denied even their most basic rights as prisoners, according to lawyers
BY JOHN GAUCI
SYDNEY — Pressure on Nike has been stepped up by an "Alternative Opening Ceremony" organised by NikeWatch, which challenged the sportswear giant to live up to the "Olympic ideal of human dignity".
The September 11 ceremony, in
Sodexho Alliance, a multinational based in France, and its Australian
division, Sodexho Australia, won the contract to cater for several Olympic
venues — Stadium Australia, the Olympic village (for sponsors and the media)
and the Sydney Opera
BY ALLEN MYERS
"John Howard sounded nervous when he rose to speak", Michelle Grattan began her Sydney Morning Herald commentary on the prime minister's speech to the United Nations Millennium Summit on September 7. She went on to point out that the
The article "A song for an apology" in last week's 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly contains an editing error in stating that Triple J radio had excluded the previous Simon Hunt (Pauline Pantsdown) song "I Don't Like It" from its play list. It is only Simon's new
For a complete record of the three-day S11 protests against the World Economic Forum in Melbourne, check out 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly's Global Action web site,http://www.greenleft.org.au/globalaction/s11.
The site contains not only a comprehensive daily
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