Kindergarten teachers call 'time out' on Labor
BY SUE BULL
GEELONG — Kindergarten teachers in Victoria are now paid 30% less than their primary and secondary school colleagues, making them the worst paid teachers in Australia, staff and parents
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Globalising women's liberation
BY KATH O'DRISCOLL & NIKKI SULLINGS
Women make up 70% of the world's poor, according to the United Nations Development Program. And "globalisation" (read: global capitalism) is forcing on women ever greater
Queensland Labor threatened by electoral fraud
BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS
BRISBANE — The Queensland Labor Party has landed in hot water after ALP member and Townsville political identity Karen Ehrman, jailed for nine months in early August, alleged
BY SEAN HEALY
Prime Minister John Howard has added his own shrill voice to growing official outrage about the planned September 11 mass protests against the World Economic Forum meeting in Melbourne. He has said that the world's governments "will
PAKISTAN: Sugar mill workers fight for jobs
LAHORE - More than 700 workers in sugar mills in Sind province were made redundant during July and August. At the Alnoor Sugar Mills and Shah Murad Sugar Mill, both owned by the same person, 240 workers
Looking Out: Generations of victims
"Hi Dad, today you have another Great grandson weighing in at seven pounds and nine ounces. Born on this 29th day of June, at 12:41 p.m. His name is Daemonta Munson, son of Robert Gene Munson, son of Tanisha
BY KATHY NEWNAM
ADELAIDE — The bread and roses that adorned the meeting hall of the first South Australian Inter-Union Women's Conference on August 18 symbolised women's continuing struggle for their "basic needs and a rich cultural life",
Debt relief leaves countries worse off
An International Monetary Fund-administered initiative to relieve the debt burden on the world's poorest countries is a "fraud" which is leaving countries like Zambia worse off than before, the British aid
Job satisfaction
"I know I can do more for lifting human standards ... than in just about any other job on this planet." — Mike Moore at a meeting of the Canterbury Employers' Chamber of Commerce on August 18, one year since his appointment as
S11 hits regional Victoria
BY JACQUIE MOON
GEELONG — With only two weeks to go until the S11 protests hit Melbourne, Victoria's regional residents are jumping on board the actions against the World Economic Forum (WEF). Geelong for Global
East Timor: one man's perspective
The DiplomatDirected by Tom ZubryckiProduced by Sally Browning and Wilson da SilvaDistributed by Gil Scrine FilmsChauvel and Valhalla Cinemas, Sydney REVIEW BY NICK EVERETT
The Diplomat follows East Timorese
EAST TIMOR: Transition still painful
August 30 is the first anniversary of East Timor's courageous act of self-determination, when, after 24 years of occupation, 78.9% of voters defied concerted Indonesian military and militia attempts to crush
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