By Jolyon Campbell and Jeremy Smith MELBOURNE — In the last three weeks Victorian premier, Jeff Kennett, has upped the ante against the Save Albert Park (SAP) campaign. On October 23, in a wild outburst, Kennett accused the protest group, its
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Exporting the 'ALP model' to Britain By John Pilger In a recent article in the Guardian, the [British] Labour MP Denis MacShane lauded the "compelling model" of the Australian Labor government. "What is the secret of its success?" he asked, listing
By Anthony Benbow PERTH — After a three-month campaign of union action, the Western Australian government has been forced to back down on in industrial relations "reforms". In emergency negotiations with union officials on November 6-7, Premier
US to resume nuclear weapons' tests By Eva Cheng On October 27, the US government announced plans to carry out six underground tests of nuclear materials, including plutonium, over the next two years. The tests could modernise and upgrade what is
By Anthony Brown BRISBANE — After fours years of intense political lobbying conservationists have achieved what is being described as one of Queensland's greatest environmental victories. In late October the Queensland and federal governments
By Lisa Macdonald Five hundred dock-workers in Liverpool have been sacked by the Mersey Harbour Dock Company (MHDC) after refusing to cross a picket line established by young "trainee" dockers fighting casualisation of their jobs. Dozens of ships and
By Bill Mason BRISBANE — Workers who fight for bigger lump-sum payments under the Queensland government's new workers compensation scheme may have to pay the legal costs of both sides. Union and legal bodies said on November 3 that the scheme made
By Emma Webb ADELAIDE — Over 100 Semaphore residents and environmental activists have been blockading bulldozers and trucks from sand mining Semaphore beach. Since 1974 the Coastal Protection Board (CPB) has regularly moved sand from the beach,
By Sujatha Fernandes SYDNEY — Hip hop originates from the alienation and frustration of young, black people in the US who are the victims of the racist system in which they are forced to fight vicious cycles of violence and poverty, with no control
By Allen Jennings TABUBIL, Papua New Guinea — "This is the single biggest mining devastation of the environment in the world ... and is being defended by outrageous laws cooked up by an authoritarian government", said Ralph Nader, US consumer
DesperadoDirected by Robert RodriguezScreening at Hoyts cinemasReviewed by Roberto Jorquera and Michael Tardif Robert Rodriguez bases his new film Desperado on the 1992 film El Mariachi, also set in Mexico. It too uses the artist/musician as the hero
NSSP campaigns for peace in Sri Lanka By Sujatha Fernandes On October 17, after peace talks had failed, the Sri Lankan government launched a major offensive against Jaffna, the citadel of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE) in an attempt to
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