Companies operating in the oil and natural gas rich Timor Gap include some of the largest multinational and Australian-based energy corporations. Anglo-Dutch giant Shell, US-based Phillips Petroleum and Australian players such as Woodside Energy and
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The measure of success
What is the measure of a successful internet company? Some would say
vision — the ability to bravely present the future in a world struggling
with the present. Others would suggest flair — having a style that
BY MATTHEW DAVIS
As risk factors — like unemployment, poverty and homelessness — rise,
so too does the prevalence of heroin use. In Western Australia, official
1997 figures estimate that there are between 43,200 and 57,600 active heroin
MELBOURNE — Premier Steve Bracks and the commanders of the Victoria Police are under heavy fire for their backing of violent assaults on peaceful S11 protesters during the September 11-13 blockade of the World Economic Forum's summit in the Crown
BY MICHAEL KARADJIS
The ouster of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic's regime was the result of two overlapping events. The first was a rearrangement of power within the ruling elite, replacing a tainted Milosevic with Vojislav Kostunica,
While BHP's proclaims that "prevention is better than cure", the company is pressing ahead with investigations into dumping in the ocean wastes from the proposed Gag Island nickel project, 150 kilometres west of West Papua in Indonesia.
In 1996,
S11 activist, Marcus Brumer who cream-pied the Victorian Premier Steve Bracks last week is facing five charges after being arrested at his Upwey home on October 31.
He was taken by two members of the Protective Security Intelligence Group to the
The following appeal was made by Rahman Hoseinzadeh, secretary of the Kurdistan Worker-Communist Party of Iran, on November 1.
Mahmood Salehi, president of the Bakers' Syndicate in the city of Saqez, Kurdistan in Iran, was arrested for the second
BY JUSTINE KAMPRAD
MELBOURNE — Last week FairWare activists held lively protest actions against the Australian Retailers Association (ARA), marking a change in the focus of the FairWear campaign.
ARA-affiliated companies control over 70% of the
The efforts by the West Papuan people to garner international support for self-determination have taken a number of leaps forward recently. But despite growing international concern at Indonesia's repressive policies in West Papua — including a ban
The Palestinian people are rebelling against the past 52 years of occupation and injustice. They have been betrayed by a false peace process that did little more than readjust the terms of Israeli occupation of their land.
The Palestinians have
South Africa in the mid-'70s was a deeply oppressive society. Apartheid repression was at its height and rigid racial segregation was the law. So when Sipho Mchunu, an illiterate black gardener from rural Zululand, and Johnny Clegg, a white
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