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Microsoft Corporation is currently in the process of rolling out a huge new product range with names like Hailstorm and Windows XP. Meanwhile, we are being told by top Microsoft officer Steve Ballmer that because it is free, Linux, an
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BY SEAN HEALY
While their press secretaries will no doubt come up with a headline-grabbing figure to spin it otherwise, the leaders of the world's eight largest industrialised economies are preparing to ignore worldwide calls to "drop the debt" at
BY PHIL HEARSE
LONDON — The recently concluded triangular one-day cricket competition between England, Pakistan and Australia was noticeable for two things. First, as expected, Australia thrashed both the other sides. Second, the British press,
BY SARAH STEPHEN
July 28 is the fiftieth anniversary of the enactment of the UN refugee convention. To "celebrate", Australia and other rich country governments are planning to rewrite the convention, to overhaul what determines a refugee and to
BY PAUL BENEDEK
SYDNEY — "When the boss wanted orders to stop us picketing, it took less than a day. But we are now into our seventh week without pay, after being unfairly sacked, and still there is no decision."
Seventy-two sacked Metroshelf
Asylum seekers
The vilification of asylum seekers as "queue jumpers" continues. How hypocritical is it that this epithet comes from people who have never queued. Most Australians either had the good fortune to simply be born here, or had access to
BY FEDERICO FUENTES
Student activists at Melbourne University are determined to defend fellow students who face disciplinary action, even expulsion, over their part in an April 5 protest against university privatisation - and have appealed for
BY GARY MEYERHOFF
There's an election brewing in the Northern Territory: the ruling Country Liberal Party has passed an act to extend police powers, the Anti-Social Conduct and Public Order Act, and suddenly illicit drug use has become a hot
BY SEAN HEALY
The military regime which has ruled Burma for nearly 40 years may be about to not only release opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest but form a power-sharing government with her party, the National League for
BY KYLIE MOON
ASTON — More than 150 people attended a July 8 forum to discuss environmental issues in the July 14 Aston by-election. The forum was organised by The Wilderness Society (TWS) and the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF).
Founding conference approaches
Socialist Alliance will hold a founding national conference in Melbourne on August 4-5.
The conference will adopt a platform and constitution for the alliance, and discuss the coming federal elections. Vigorous
BY SEAN HEALY
@box text intr = In order to qualify for what debt relief is on offer, poor countries must jump through many hoops.
Qualify as "IDA": In order to qualify for debt relief, a Third World country must first be deemed eligible for
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