Workers demonstrated outside the German embassy in Kuala Lampur on December 1, calling on the German ambassador to Malaysia to intervene in an industrial dispute at a German-owned factory. The workers also staged a noisy but peaceful protest outside
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Raul Bassi
In the lead-up to the election of the centre-left Workers Party (PT) presidential candidate Luis Inacio "Lula" da Silva in 2002, one of the PT's key election promises was to get rid of corruption. Undoubtedly, in a country where
Alex Miller
A Scottish miner was walking home one night with a bunch of pheasants he had poached from a local landowner's estate when the landowner appeared and demanded that the miner hand over the pheasants. "Why should I hand them over to you?",
Jon Lamb & Kathy Newnam, Darwin
The likely passing of the federal government's Radioactive Waste Bill has not dampened the fighting spirit of Darwin's No Waste Alliance. Â鶹ӳ» Weekly spoke to four members of the campaign group, Justin Tutty,
Jo Obronschka, Sydney
More than 300 people attended a meeting organised by the Marrickville Transport Action Group (MTAG) on November 26 to discuss the Labor state government's plans for motorways, road construction and traffic increases in the
On December 2, KFC workers in Balmoral went on strike in opposition to lower wage rates for young workers. The strike was organised by the Unite union, and more than 150 strikers and supporters protested at the store.
Representatives from other KFC
Sarah Stephen
Preventative detention orders will allow state police to detain those whom they suspect of intending to commit a terrorist attack. However, they are also designed for those against whom there is no evidence, or not enough, to bring a
Sarah Stephen
Given the significant number of people wrongfully detained under the migration act, the potential for innocent people to be wrongfully detained under the preventative detention orders in the new terror laws is frightening.
So-called
Tony Iltis
Human rights lawyer Julian Burnside, who acted for the Tampa refugees in 2001, believes the federal Coalition government's "anti-terror" laws will "seriously undermine basic civil freedoms that have been recognised for at least three
The broom-bristles-for-eyebrows neolithhammers away at our enmeshed foundations,ignoring centuries of same-sex promiscuities.He's teamed up with God to decide what's natural and right,hiding from the mardi-gras that leaves pride and defiance like
Pip Hinman
Maureen has worked hard all her life, beginning at age 15 at the giant vegetable cannery Edgells, and later as a nurse. It's only been in her middle age that Maureen has been able to tackle her tertiary preparation certificate at TAFE,
And in the Third Worldpeople drop dead, asheavy, dirty rain in a storm
And here, we dancewith effortwe singwithout songthey make us build their modernspace age buildingswithout colourwe createtheir paintings and gardens andlarge billboard
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