BY FEDERICO FUENTES
Student activists at Melbourne University are determined to defend fellow students who face disciplinary action, even expulsion, over their part in an April 5 protest against university privatisation - and have appealed for
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BY GARY MEYERHOFF
There's an election brewing in the Northern Territory: the ruling Country Liberal Party has passed an act to extend police powers, the Anti-Social Conduct and Public Order Act, and suddenly illicit drug use has become a hot
BY EVA CHENG
Malaysia's prime minister Mahathir Mohamad, in power for 20 years, has turned increasingly to a notorious repressive law, in a desperate attempt to crush rising internal dissent.
Enacted in 1960, the Internal Security Act allows for
BY JOYCE WU
Why is the Labor left so keen on mainstream business lobbyists that it's asking for their opinions on human rights, free speech and personal freedom at its conferences — and not providing space for independent, critical voices?
On
Smart tags
Microsoft Corporation is currently in the process of rolling out a huge new product range with names like Hailstorm and Windows XP. Meanwhile, we are being told by top Microsoft officer Steve Ballmer that because it is free, Linux, an
BY SEAN HEALY
@box text intr = In order to qualify for what debt relief is on offer, poor countries must jump through many hoops.
Qualify as "IDA": In order to qualify for debt relief, a Third World country must first be deemed eligible for
@box text intr = [The following email letter was sent to Workers Online on July 5 and refused publication.]
NSW Police Association president Ian Ball writes a poignant letter to Workers Online (29/6) about the "moral dilemma" of being a police
BY SARAH STEPHEN
July 28 is the fiftieth anniversary of the enactment of the UN refugee convention. To "celebrate", Australia and other rich country governments are planning to rewrite the convention, to overhaul what determines a refugee and to
BY PAUL BENEDEK
SYDNEY — "When the boss wanted orders to stop us picketing, it took less than a day. But we are now into our seventh week without pay, after being unfairly sacked, and still there is no decision."
Seventy-two sacked Metroshelf
Asylum seekers
The vilification of asylum seekers as "queue jumpers" continues. How hypocritical is it that this epithet comes from people who have never queued. Most Australians either had the good fortune to simply be born here, or had access to
BY NORM DIXON
JOHANNESBURG — A political publicity stunt by the Pan Africanist Congress has snowballed into a major confrontation between homeless and land hungry people and the African National Congress government. The failure of the ANC to
Beaming personality
"Get that smirk off your face. I can hear it over the radio." — A caller on Neil Mitchell's 3AW talk-back radio program to Treasurer Peter Costello.
Charisma
"Arrogant nitwit", "smug, arrogant arsehole" — Some of the
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