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According to a February 1 media statement by the India Resource Center, Coca-Cola is the subject of police investigations into the death of V. Kamsan, a community leader who campaigned in opposition to the soft-drink company's proposed bottling plant
Sue Bolton Many people in their 40s and 50s look back fondly on the 1970s when they became the first members of their family to go to university. The 1972-75 Labor government led by PM Gough Whitlam introduced free university education for the
Dale Mills NSW Police has called for 3000 extra police over the next three years, part of a nation-wide attempt by police to gain more staff and more funding. Australia's real recurrent spending on the police service was about $5.5 billion in
Evidence emerging from the Australian government-appointed commission of inquiry, headed by Terence Cole, into whether or not AWB Ltd, Australia's wheat export monopoly, had violated the rules governing the UN's "oil-for-food" program, has revealed
Sarah Stephen Greens Senator Kerry Nettle received a warm welcome when she finally managed to get to Christmas Island on January 28-30 to visit the 43 West Papuan asylum seekers and a family of West Timorese being held there. NSW Greens immigration
This is the 'controversial' art piece by Melbourne Resistance member Azlan McLennan that was confiscated by Footscray police from a billboard belonging to the Trocadero Art Space gallery in January in a blatant act of political censorship. The burnt
James Vassilopoulos, Melbourne The Communication, Electrical and Plumbing Union (CEPU) and the community group Union Solidarity have achieved a victory against Australia Post management, which is now seeking mediation in the union's case to
By Sarah Stephen Sydney Latin American Film FestivalFri Feb 17-Sun Feb 19Campbelltown Arts Centre, Art Gallery Rd (cnr Camden & Appin Rd)Fri Feb 24-Sun Feb 26Tom Mann Theatre, 136 Chalmers St, Surry HillsFor full program visit
Tamara Pearson "There are more dangerous poverties than the material type", Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez tsaid in an October 2003 interview. "There is moral poverty — the poverty of principles. We could say that material poverty is the
Sue Bolton The deadline for the petition circulating among unionists calling on the ACTU to organise a national stoppage and mass protests on the day the federal government's Work Choices legislation is enacted has been extended until February 19.
Doug Lorimer An "emergency" meeting of the UN's Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency, was convened on February 2 to consider a resolution sponsored by the EU-3 (Britain, France and Germany) to ask IAEA director-general Mohammed ElBaradei
Tim Stewart, Canberra Legal action launched by two Filipino guest workers last week has lifted the lid on wage exploitation and racism in the hospitality industry in the ACT. The Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Union (LHMU) has learned of