During the past 20 years, our life at work has become more stressful, unsafe and unrewarding. Some of us are taking home more money, but often the price is double shifts, enforced overtime and less time for family and leisure. Others are working two
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Steven Katsineris
The US wants to upgrade its half-century intelligence presence on Cyprus into a fully fledged army base when the Greek and Turkish Cypriot sides agree on reunification, according to a report by Iason Athanasiadis in the March 6
Doug Lorimer
The selection of Iyad Allawi as prime minister of the Iraqi "interim government" is a clear demonstration that Washington has no intention of relinquishing its control over Iraq on June 30.
Allawi was selected as Iraq's new PM on May
Cam Walker
World Refugee Day, marked on June 20, is a chance to acknowledge both the plight and the courage of refugees. It could also be a day for reflection on another looming crisis: the beginning of a new wave of refugees fleeing human-induced
Norm Dixon
Hollywood's global warming apocalypse flick, The Day After Tomorrow, has focused attention on how the melting of polar ice, the Arctic tundra and the world's glaciers can trigger abrupt climate change. There is now overwhelming evidence
Dianne Hiles, Sydney
The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) undertook an inquiry during 2002 into children in immigration detention.
On May 13, the report, "A Last Resort?", and its recommendations were tabled, very quietly, in
Dale Mills
On June 1, former taxi driver and factory worker Jack Roche became the first person in Australia to be imprisoned as a "terrorist", after pleading guilty to involvement in an al Qaeda plot to bomb the Israeli embassy in Canberra.
World leader
"Mental illnesses including anxiety disorders and depression are common and undertreated in many countries, both developed and developing, with the highest rate found in the United States." — June 2 Associated Press report on the
Kavita Krishnan, Delhi
Psephologists, astrologers and speculators alike had used their predictions to campaign for a return of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's right-wing National Democratic Alliance (NDA) to power in the April 20-May 10
Rohan Pearce
On June 1, PM John Howard finally admitted that Australian soldiers had known that US soldiers were torturing Iraqi prisoners. Up until then, his government had insisted that Australian officials had found out about illegal US
Iraq
Britain and the US seem to be having some communication problems about who will have veto rights over US military attacks on innocent wedding parties, while the US's former pin-up boy, Ahmad Chalabi, claims that his recent fall from grace is
Steps for the Future: A Miner's Tale — From seven different countries in southern Africa comes this unique collection of films which deal with the ever-present danger and tragedy of HIV/AIDS. SBS, Tuesday, June 15, 1.25am.
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