Sue Bolton, Melbourne
On February 1, workers employed by construction contractors on Esso's Bass Strait oil and gas platforms defeated an attempt by the oil company — the Australian subsidiary of ExxonMobil, the world's biggest oil corporation
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WOLLONGONG — The crew of Wollongong's Westpac Life Saver Rescue Helicopter is continuing its five-week-long campaign to be reinstated. The crew was stood down on December 24 after voicing concerns about poor
In a witness statement for the inquiry into the death in custody of Asian teenager Zahid Mubarak, the British Prison Service's first race equality advisor, Judy Clements, has revealed an administration-driven culture of racial abuse. Mubarak was
A retired US Army officer turned revolutionary socialist and author, Stan Goff spent the majority of his military career in a field euphemistically termed "Special Operations". Beginning with Vietnam in 1970, Goff was deployed to eight countries
Pip Hinman
The February 1 Sydney Morning Herald carried an opinion piece by Gerard Henderson of the right-wing Sydney Institute attacking leading figures in the anti-war movement for supporting the right of Iraqis to resist the US-led occupation of
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"The US occupation authority that governed Iraq after the 2003 invasion did not properly safeguard [US]$8.8 billion of Iraq's money, leaving the funds open to corruption, a US audit released on Sunday has said... One of the main
Kathy Newnam, Darwin
The immigration detention centre at Coonawarra in Darwin will incarcerate Indonesians caught fishing in Australian waters, according to new plans announced by federal fisheries minister Ian Macdonald on January 31. The
Despite Botswana's President Festus Mogae November claim to British MPs that Bushmen had been allowed to hunt in the Kalahari Game Reserve, on February 2 Botswanan courts handed out 1000-pula (AU$310) fines for hunting gembok antelope. The Bushmen
Federico Fuentes
A manifesto proposed by 19 intellectuals created a stir at this year's World Social Forum. The 12-point platform of proposals is designed to make concrete the slogan "Another World is Possible".
Circulated in order to gain the
As the radical left-wing Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) looks increasingly likely to win government at the next presidential election, the US has manufactured a crisis in order to force the government to give up its anti-aircraft
Message Stick: Crossing the Line — Two non-Indigenous medical students work in a remote Aboriginal community where their precepts and ideas are deeply challenged. ABC, Friday, February 11, 6pm.
Compass: Prom Fight, the Marc Hall Story — Young,
Stuart Munckton
"We are very concerned about a democratically elected leader who governs in an illiberal way", intoned US Secretary of State-designate Condeleeza Rice addressing a January 18 Senate foreign relations committee. Rice was referring to
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