BY VIV MILEY
John Howard upped the election stakes on January 29 when he unveiled his $2.9 billion innovation action plan, Backing Australia's Ability. The plan was applauded by business circles, university administrators and research bodies, but
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BY JON LAND
Imagine someone referring to prime minister John Howard and his foreign minister, Alexander Downer, as "more generous than Mother Theresa". You wouldn't be surprised if it came from a Coalition backbencher — but these are the precise
“Something that did concern me in your letter, however, was to read
that since there was not 'a hint of Baldwin's sexuality' in the African
American encyclopaedia you felt 'that is as it should be'.” — Sean Denis
D'Arcy.
The words above
BY STEPHEN MARKS
NEWCASTLE — Thanks to international working-class solidarity, 160 Southland Colliery workers near Cessnock are reported to have won their entitlements back after the collapse of the Colrack Group on January 10.
Colrack's parent
Palestinians have submitted a report to the United Nations saying weapons used by Israel to quell the four-month-old intifada in Palestine contained depleted uranium, the January 19-20 Jordan Times reported.
BY JIM GREEN
Federal environment minister Robert Hill announced on February 1 that he requires further detailed information before making a final decision on the Honeymoon uranium mine proposal.
The Honeymoon project, located 80km west of Broken
BY SUE BULL
GEELONG — Following the demise of Wainwright's Tree in September 1999, this city has desperately needed a progressive bookshop and activist centre. The Democratic Socialist Party, Resistance and 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly have announced that
BY GRANT COLEMAN
At the national conference of the National Union of Students (NUS) in December, the socialist youth organisation Resistance walked out of the left-wing faction called the National Broad Left (NBL). Instead of participating in this
BY SHUA GARFIELD
HOBART — The National Union of Students (NUS) education committee met on January 25 to plan its campaigns for 2001.
One of the main issues discussed was how NUS should respond to the Labor Party's federal election policy
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"The problem facing both leaders is that the more they try to distance themselves from each other, the more they are sounding the same." — Paul Coorey, the Adelaide Advertiser's chief political reporter comparing Prime Menzies John Howard
BY SEAN HEALY
Suddenly all the triumphalism is gone and the erstwhile "Masters of the Universe" are sounding like whining rich kids whose snowboards have been taken away from them.
Over the last decade, the World Economic Forum's annual meeting,
BY EVA CHENG
The Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) has taken an extraordinary series of measures to contribute to the efforts to relieve the devastating impact of the January 26 earthquake in Gujarat, in India's north west.
The
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