The media coverage of Pauline Hanson has certainly built the following of One Nation. The media focus on Hanson during the lead up to elections in Western Australia and Queensland was astonishing.
Following WA election night, the journalism in the
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BY TONY ILTIS
MELBOURNE — Two hundred and fifty people packed Trades Hall on March 8 to discuss the struggle of the Latrobe Valley power workers against attempts by Yallourn Energy and other privatised electricity corporations to slash jobs,
BY LISA MACDONALD
SYDNEY — In what will be the broadest left conference held in this city for many years, activists from the growing anti-corporate movement and a wide range of local campaigns will gather at the University of Technology's Markets
BY TRISHA REIMERS
Big Kev is excited — and he should be, because he's discovered that, just like sex, nationalism sells (in his case, sells cleaning products).
Big Kev is just another Aussie capitalist who's telling workers that they should
The financial markets comprise many interlocking markets in different financial instruments. These are the basic ones:
Shares: A share is a tradeable certificate of part-ownership of a company listed on a stock exchange. A shareholder owns a part
Napster
The new buzz word of the internet is P2P. This stands for peer-to-peer,
and refers to the swapping of information between two people connected
to the internet via their personal computers.
P2P follows B2C (business to
Resistance high school students' magazine focuses on M1
DARWIN — Following a successful first edition of Student Underground, which contained news on local International Women's Day events and East Timor solidarity, Resistance members here are
BY ZANNY BEGG
SYDNEY — Fred Nile's prayers for rain may have been answered but his prayers to halt this year's Mardi Gras were not.
Between 400,000 and 500,000 people lined Oxford Street to watch the annual Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade.
BY SEAN WALSH
MELBOURNE — The Port Phillip Action Group got more than they bargained for on February 25, when its "Resident Street Walk Against Street Prostitution and Drugs" through the streets of seaside St Kilda was met with 50
$1.2 billion: One day's trading on the Australian Stock Exchange.
$1 billion: The amount needed to restore public funding of higher education in Australia to pre-1990 levels.
US$35.5 billion: One day's trading on the New York Stock Exchange.
BY NORM DIXON
Following the lead of Brazil and South Africa, Kenya announced on March 6 that it plans to relax its patent laws to enable its population to buy cheaper drugs to fight HIV/AIDS.
Health minister Sam Ongeri said he would introduce a
BY DR COSTA GAZI
[The following statement was written on behalf of the AIDS Babies Battling AIDS (ABBA) Trust by Dr Costa Gazi, the outspoken critic of South Africa's African National Congress government's policy of refusing to supply
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