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Beazley, Howard beaten by the yardstick

BY VIV MILEY The evidence is mounting that university students are paying too much for higher education and the federal government spending too little, with a senior university administrator backing such claims by the union which

UNITED STATES: Bush prevents airline workers from striking

George W. Bush campaigned for president on two broad themes — as a "compassionate conservative" and against "big government" taking away the rights and money of the American people. Now that he's president, the record is already in on what those

Demand release of Pakistani political leaders

The parties of the banned Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy are calling on supporters worldwide to write to Pakistani ruler Pervaiz Musharraf and to Pakistani embassies to demand the release of imprisoned political leaders. Musharraf's

University activists gear up for M1

BY ROHAN PEARCE As the national May 1 blockades of stock exchanges and other corporate targets approach, M1 activists have begun a big push to build the demonstrations. Since universities resumed this year, more than 1500 students have joined local

SOUTH AFRICA: Union 'mourns' on world water day

The South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) has called for this year's world water day to be declared a day of mourning for the millions of people who are sick and dying as a result of not having access to water. The United Nations chose

Looking out: Not true!

“James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA, dumbfounded many at a guest lecture when he advanced his theory about a link between skin color and sex drive.” — Atlanta Journal-Constitution, November 25, 2000. My attention was caught recently by

INDONESIA: Timor war criminals remain free

BY JON LAND Chances are increasingly remote that the Indonesian legal system will bring to justice those responsible for war crimes and human rights abuses committed before, during and after East Timor's August 1999 referendum. Any trial that does

Write on: Letters to the editor

Friends of the Earth I thank Jim Green for his article on Friends of the Earth (FoE). His analysis is reasonable of FoE Australia and FoE International, and I applaud him for touching on some of the problems with some (not by any means all) of the

M1 goes rural

BY SUE BULL GEELONG — People in rural and regional Victoria, hit hard by policies such as privatisation and deregulation, will get a chance to show their anger at corporate globalisation, thanks to plans by local activists to organise a united

Rollback is not enough! Abolish the GST

BY SUE BOLAND Many people said it at the time of the 1998 election, many more are now saying it but still the government, and even the official "opposition", still deny the truth: no amount of compensation or exemptions can ever make the goods and

Depleted uranium: the invisible war

Invisible War: Depleted Uranium and the politics of radiationSBS, April 3, 8.30pm REVIEW BY JIM GREEN Invisible War, produced by the French company Canal Plus and released in February last year, investigates the use of depleted uranium (DU)

COLOMBIA: Are oil profits behind US intervention?

Though the stated objectives of Plan Colombia are to end the 30-plus-year-old civil war that has cost the lives of more than 35,000 Colombians and to end the production of cocaine and heroin, there may be a simpler reality: oil.