Ranting I
"Globalisation describes what is happening. And ranting against globalisation is like ranting against the telephone. You can use the telephone for good or for ill. So too the wider process (of which the telephone is part) can be a force
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Just because it's been acting unilaterally doesn't mean Washington has been acting alone: Canberra has been right there beside it all the way.
Kyoto Protocol: Australia has worked in tandem with the United States to torpedo the Kyoto Protocol on
BY PIP HINMAN
With Megawati Sukarnoputri freshly installed as president, and the country's armed forces, the TNI, in the ascendancy, the US government is moving swiftly to strengthen military ties with Indonesia.
US defence secretary Donald
BY KERRY RIDGEWAY
SYDNEY — In the week that marked the 50th anniversary of the UN refugee convention, human rights activists in Sydney and Melbourne mobilised to oppose the government's policy of forcible detention for all onshore asylum
BY FEDERICO FUENTES
One hundred and eighty prisoners are still on hunger strike in Turkey's jails, staying firm despite the deaths of more than 60 hunger strikes since the protest began on October 20.
The health of many of the hunger strikers has
BY ADAM MACLEAN
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation is stuck in the middle of a very nasty global trend: with publicly-funded media increasingly under financial and editorial threat from hostile governments, important alternatives to the
BY BILL MASON
The federal government has been forced to order an overhaul of the Job Network after allegations of "phantom jobs" scams. Guidelines governing the $3 billion labour market program will be tightened and the Productivity Commission will
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — The state conference of the Australian Labor Party will be held at the prestigious Wrest Point Casino on the weekend of August 11-12. As is typical at these conferences, it will be an opportunity for Labor leaders like
BY DEANNA SWIFT
GENEVA, Switzerland — Ever since the disastrous "Battle of Seattle" in 1999, the World Trade Organisation has been trying to remake its image, trading in the persona of global tyrant for that of a "hip", "with it" agent of change.
Aston I
Make up your mind Â鶹´«Ã½. Your editorial on July 25 is headed "Why nobody won in Aston", and then it goes on to say that the Greens' preference policy handed the Liberals a propaganda victory.
Shouldn't your headline then have been:
BY RUTH RATCLIFFE
DARWIN — The Socialist Alliance has decided to run at least three candidates in the Northern Territory elections called for August 18, the alliance's first-ever foray in a state or territory election.
Youth worker and
The ouster of President Abdurrahman Wahid and his replacement by Megawati Sukarnoputri has opened up a new, and likely volatile, era in Indonesia.
Reprinted here, in abridged form, is an interview with Budiman Sudjatmiko, the prominent and
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