BY ALEX MILNE
The Tarkine is the largest unprotected wilderness area in Tasmania, covering some 377,000 hectares of the state's northwest. It is a beautiful and dramatic region, with wild rivers, deep gorges and vast rainforests. Here, some of the
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BY REBECCA CONROY
SYDNEY — What do Indonesian factory workers making theatre in their spare time have in common with radical TV producers working out of a shack in Marrickville?
In February, a rag-tag crew of community TV producers will be
BY MARCUS PABIAN
MELBOURNE — On August 21, 300 members of he National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) were joined by delegates to the ACTU congress in a protest rally against the Howard government's proposed changes to university funding which
BY SUE BOLTON
MELBOURNE — The ACTU executive's choice of guest speakers at the peak union body's 2003 congress, held August 18-21, left a bitter taste in the mouths of many unionists.
On the second day, Qantas board "chairman" Margaret Jackson
BY MARCE CAMERON
BRISBANE — On August 19, Australian Manufacturing Workers Union organiser Maggie May came to work and found a fax on her chair from AMWU national secretary Doug Cameron telling her that she would no longer be working for the
BY NICK SOUDAKOFF
On July 14, Australia's Prime Minister John Howard announced a A$5 million security aid package, after meeting with Philippines President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in Manila.
The package, aimed at "counter-terrorism activities",
On August 26, 2001, 433 asylum seekers were rescued by a Norwegian vessel, the MV Tampa, on their way to Australia. When the Tampa attempted to enter Australian waters in order to drop off the asylum seekers, it was boarded by the SAS and prevented
BY DIANNE HILES
"Tell the women of Australia we are here. We want to see our husbands. We want our children to be happy."
Just what is so unreasonable about these sentiments?
These words were uttered to Marianne Dickie by distraught Afghan
BY BARRY SHEPPARD
SAN FRANCISCO — Editorial writers and TV talking heads have deplored the recall election of Governor Gray Davis in California as anti-democratic and a joke. Californian law allows for a recall election of officials if enough
BY ROHAN PEARCE
Despite the abject failure to find any weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq, Pentagon officials remain upbeat on the issue.
After testifying to the US Senate's armed services committee on July 31, US Army Major-General Keith
MELBOURNE — On August 20, 1000 construction workers rallied outside the ACTU congress. Organised by the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union, the rally called on the ACTU to support unions resisting the federal government's legislative
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"You'd be taking them to the Better Business Bureau if you bought a washing machine the way we went into the war in Iraq." — Former NATO commander and retired US Army general Wesley Clark, commenting August 17, on the White House
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