Racist police raid on Redfern
By Paul Howes
SYDNEY — More than 40 police stormed the predominantly Aboriginal Eveleigh Street, Redfern, in a military style raid on the night of January 14. The raid was the latest in a series of measures adopted
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Greens protest funding cuts
By Pip Hinman
Environmental organisations and the Greens (WA) have condemned the Howard government's decision, announced on January 16, to cut funding to voluntary conservation groups. Greens (WA) Senator Dee Margetts
Why should skating be a crime?
By Colin Salter
ALP government initiatives in NSW include "anti-gang" legislation which brands a group of three or more youths with "baseball caps on backwards" as a potential risk and initiates the idea of curfews
Plutonium shipment to pass Australia
By Lisa Macdonald
A French Ministry of Foreign Affairs document leaked to Greenpeace last month reveals that a cargo of highly radioactive waste will pass through the Tasman Sea, up the east coast of Australia
Leonard Peltier
In a recent letter (GLW #254) Native American activist Leonard Peltier sought support for the basic rights of all his fellow prisoners, never mentioning his own case. Leonard became known to many for his role in the 1973 American
A step toward performance-based pay in Telstra
By Leo Wellin
Telstra members of the Community and Public Sector Union late last year overwhelmingly endorsed a competency-based pay structure that demands "increased productivity and increased
By Margaret Gleeson
When communications were renewed on January 10, the Peruvian government refused to provide a concrete response to the demands of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) which occupied the Lima residence of the Japanese
Thai workers torch plant
On December 17, 2000 angry workers at Sanyo Universal Electric burned down a four-storey warehouse and the office building of the Japanese manufacturer in Thailand after protesting in vain at management's decision to cut
@columhead = No prizes
"The Liberal Party may have won the election, but we clearly won the campaign." — WA ALP leader Geoff Gallop on the outcome of the state election.
@columhead = Bribe them honest
"[Money] is certainly a factor. If you
An unqualified right
Less than 20 years ago, women in the United States won the legal right not to be sexually harassed. That right may now be withdrawn — at least for some women.
In 1994, 28 year-old Paula Jones filed a civil suit for sexual
At Home in the UniverseBy Stuart KauffmanOxford University Press, 1995. 321 pp.Published in Australia in January by Penguin, $16.95Reviewed by Allen Myers This is a challenging and fascinating book, one that may be destined to be as influential as
By Stuart Russell
Individuals with a gripe against society and far right-wing groups pose the most serious security threat to the Sydney Olympics, the former deputy-general of ASIO has warned. Such social malcontents could strike almost anywhere
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