On November 14-15, Sydney will host a meeting of World Trade Organisation (WTO) trade ministers from some 25 countries to discuss the Doha round of multilateral trade negotiations.
The meeting will evaluate the progress that has been made since
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JOHANNESBURG — On August 17, about 100 members of the Soldiers Forum
(SF), an affiliate of the Anti-Privatisation Forum (APF), were arrested
and thrown into jail, where they still remain, for no other reason than
the fact that they wanted to
No Toxic Dump
By Paul Strangio
Pluto Press Australia, 2001
$24.95 (pb)
REVIEWED BY BEN COURTICE
Paul Strangio introduces No Toxic Dump by comparing the two
buzzwords “globalisation” and “community”. While “the revival of community
BY SARAH STEPHEN
The Murdoch family's Australian newspaper and the Fairfax's Melbourne Age have spent a number of weeks helping the government in its campaign to destroy the credibility of the Baktiyaris, a Hazara family who are seeking asylum in
BY LUISA ARA & MARCUS FELSMAN
SYDNEY — In a clear indication that students are beginning to organise against further privatisation of higher education, 500 students marched through Sydney's streets in protest against the higher education review
BY SARAH STEPHEN
The August 8 High Court decision that the Refugee Review Tribunal (RRT) had denied two applicants "natural justice" when its members lied about having studied all the material the applicants had submitted with their initial
BY JOSEPHINE HUNT
CANBERRA — On the evening of August 21, the ACT Legislative Assembly voted nine to eight to take abortion out of the Crimes Act and repeal other anti-choice legislation, giving the ACT the most progressive abortion (non-) law
BY ALISON DELLIT
SYDNEY — In another example of rampant racism in Sydney's west, female students at Noor Al Houda Islamic College have had a booking cancelled by the Auburn Swim Centre, after a racist campaign by local talk-back radio hosts to
BY LEE SUSTAR
US treasury secretary Paul O'Neill caused a stir — and a financial panic — when he declared that any money loaned to Brazil by the International Monetary Fund would end up in "Swiss bank accounts". He should have looked a
BY NICK EVERETT
SYDNEY — A "No War on Iraq" coalition was founded at a meeting on August 22 attended by representatives of the Greens, the Socialist Alliance, the Worker Communist Party of Iraq, as well as the National Union of Students, Labor
BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS
MELBOURNE — On August 20, the Victorian state Liberal Party dumped its parliamentary leader of the last two years, Denis Napthine, and replaced him with former health spokesperson Robert Doyle.
The elevation of Doyle
BY SUE BOLTON
"We're not going to have a situation where someone can be attacked because of internal [union] political differences. The printing division [of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union's Victorian branch] will not stand for it",
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