BY SEAN HEALY
The world's largest mining company, BHP Billiton, might be about to discover the limits of its power, after a global union representing 23 million metalworkers launched a worldwide campaign against its labour and environmental
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BY PIP HINMAN
SYDNEY — The November 10 assassination in Jayapura of West Papuan leader Theys Eluay drew condemnation from a wide range of public figures at a press conference in the NSW Parliament House here on November 15.
Otto Ondawame, a
In the November 10 federal election the Socialist Alliance averaged 1% in the 15 House of Representatives seats in which it stood candidates. How good is this result? What does it mean when the Greens nearly doubled their vote from 2.4% to 4.7%? What
BY MAX LANE
On November 11, a panel of three judges in Banda Aceh handed down their findings after two weeks of hearings in the case brought by the Indonesian National Police against Kautsar, a central leader of the Acehnese freedom movement.
'No war, no capitalism'
HOBART — "If you're going to say 'no war', you have to say 'no capitalism'", suggested long-time peace activist Jack Lomax at a public meeting organised by Resistance on November 17.
Lomax, one of four speakers at the
BY SARAH STEPHEN
Since the Coalition's election win on November 10 the backlash against the government's attack on asylum seekers, a policy that was wholeheartedly supported by the federal Labor opposition, has continued to grow.
Former Liberal
BY EMA CORRO
MELBOURNE - Young Arab women have hit out at the stereotypes of Islam and the racism they're subjected to.
"As an Arab I feel that my race is feared, not trusted and not liked and this is growing. But if the myths being promoted
@box text intr = Dita Sari, chairperson of the Indonesian National Front or Labour Struggles (FNPBI) was released from police custody on the evening of November 9. She had been arrested, along with 30 workers, earlier in the day when police violently
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — A Hobart City Council committee decided on November 15 to recommend a motion to the full council that would "continue to refuse requests to sell and distribute newspapers and other goods [in the Elizabeth Street mall]
BY PAUL OBOOHOV
CANBERRA — Left-wing public service unionists in the national capital have been stymied in their attempts to prevent a union restructure which would dissolve the ACT branch of the Community and Public Sector Union.
The ACT
Private thoughts
In the aftermath of September 11 a press "debate" has begun on the value of privacy. Support is being canvassed for a thinly disguised version of George Orwell's Big Brother.
The September 13 Washington Post electronic edition,
BY OUPA LEHULERE
JOHANNESBURG — South African "civil society" organisations took their first major step towards organising for the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development. During three days of intense debates, held September 26-28, the Civil
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