BY EVA CHENG
Whether the US economy is plunging into a recession is the $64 million question of the day. Preliminary data for the December quarter suggests that US gross domestic product was growing at an annual rate of only 1.4% at the end of
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BY VIV MILEY
Labor leader Kim Beazley launched his plan for a "knowledge nation" at the National Press Club on January 24. At its core is a proposal to establish a University of Australia Online which would enrol an additional 100,000 undergraduate
Silencing cyberspace?
Really annoyed about something? Want to get your message across,
but you don't own a newspaper, radio or television station? You can always
buy a can of spray paint and find a local wall.
That sounds simplistic,
You peer insensate from the parapetlike some myopic gargoyleone eye blinded by the futurethe other averted from the pastAnd from your twisted spout- regretDeep and sincere, no doubtbut, not sorrow: yetGabbling grotesque glyphdistorting the story of
BY JIM BRADLEY
February 10 is the 25th anniversary of the start of Australia's longest teachers' strike: the month-long action taken by teachers at Warilla High School, on NSW's south coast, for adequate staffing.
This monumental strike should be
I see the struggle of my people in a land so unjust
I try not to revert to racism
But there's very little you can trust
The governments make all these promises
Assuring us it will all be OK
Most of which are broken after election day
BY MAX LANE
During 2000, only the People's Democratic Party (PRD) championed the political slogan: "Smash the remnants of the New Order, leave behind the fake reformers". But now, following attempts by the party of former dictator Suharto and the
Vigil for refugees
MELBOURNE — The Refugee Action Alliance is to begin a weekly vigil at Maribyrnong detention centre from February 25, in the hope it will give people to an opportunity to see for themselves the situation of detained
BY MICHELE JONES
SYDNEY — The Democratic Socialist Party and Resistance started the year off in a big way with a well-attended opening of the eastern suburbs Resistance Centre on February 3. Around 50 members, supporters and political activists
BY SEAN HEALY
Ecuadoran President Gustavo Noboa has been forced into a partial backdown on International Monetary Fund-mandated prices rises on fuel and transport after massive countrywide protests by indigenous people and unionists reminiscent of
BY JAMES VASSILOPOULOS
CANBERRA — "The people who stand outside and say they work in the interests of the poorest people ... they make me want to vomit." This is how Mike Moore, the director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO),
Sensitive, new-age genocide acceptable
"Israel may have been able to get away with a blatant process of ethnic displacement of millions of Palestinians from their homes in 1947, but this is 2001 and the world has been sensitised to such events."
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