BY TOM WILSON
The Native Forests Network recently conducted a bus tour of the old growth forests of Tasmania's Huon Valley. This was their response to Forestry Tasmania's advertising blitz which urged people to "gather as much information as
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BY CHRIS LATHAM & PIP HINMAN
On February 20 the "cease-fire" between the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) and the Indonesian military (TNI) was extended for the third time since the so-called humanitarian pause in 2000. These declarations mean nothing,
BY NORM DIXON
"I want someone to explain to me why it isn't called murder", said Stephen Lewis, former deputy director of the United Nations Children's Fund, in an article in the January 26 Toronto Globe and Mail. Lewis was commenting on the fact
BY ZANNY BEGG
SYDNEY — Fred Nile's prayers for rain may have been answered but his prayers to halt this year's Mardi Gras were not.
Between 400,000 and 500,000 people lined Oxford Street to watch the annual Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade.
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Photo by Gail Lord.
On March 7 bus loads of members of the Worker Communist Party of Iraq,
the Worker Communist Party of Iran and their supporters held demonstrations
outside the Iraqi and Iranian embassies in Canberra. The
BY EVA CHENG
In the face of rising police violence backed by the Hindu fundamentalist-dominated state government in Jharkhand, India's newest state which came into existence only in November, the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) led a
Thousands of women and men turned out for International Women's Day rallies and marches around Australia last week.
From Sydney, Lisa Macdonald reports that more than 3000 people wound their way through the city centre on the morning of March 10
The financial markets comprise many interlocking markets in different financial instruments. These are the basic ones:
Shares: A share is a tradeable certificate of part-ownership of a company listed on a stock exchange. A shareholder owns a part
Socialist Alliance and the PLP — 1
Your reporting on the Socialist Alliance and position of leading members of the PLP in Sydney and Canberra was ambiguous and created a false impression.
In Canberra there is, so far, no Socialist Alliance and
Various left forces and progressive activists in India are planning to launch a National Campaign Against Globalisation in New Delhi on March 21-23.
An appeal for attendance at a conference, to be held over the three days to coincide the launch,
The Bogus WomanBy Kay AdsheadPerformer: Noma DumezweniBush Theatre, London
REVIEW BY JONATHAN STRAUSS
Detention of refugees, and their resistance to the inhumane situation in which this places them, is not confined to Australia. England also has
ADELAIDE — McDonald's decision to sponsor this year's Clean Up Australia Day came under attack here on March 4, when 30 people protested outside the multinational's Rundle Mall store in protest at its hypocrisy.
Representatives of the S11
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