By Chris Spindler
SYDNEY — In an all-too-rare finding of blame, the giant chemical company ICI is facing a pay-out of hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation to graziers and meat processors. ICI distributed the insecticide Helix, which
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By Alex Bainbridge
HUNTER VALLEY — On June 27, the 17th day of their strike, workers at the Coal & Allied (C&A) Hunter Valley No. 1 coal mine again voted unanimously to continue their strike. The action comes after two years of negotiations
Traditional owners say 'no' to Jabiluka uranium
By Susan Laszlo
The battle to preserve the unique wilderness of Kakadu, safeguarded by Aboriginal people for some 60,000 years, has reached a critical point. By August, Energy Resources
— Throughout the Palestinian and Israeli left, a serious discussion is occurring over the Oslo Accords and their inability to deliver peace, a Palestinian state or an improvement in life for the majority of Palestinians. Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly's ADAM
By Tony Hastings
EAST GIPPSLAND — The chainsaw crews and bulldozers are ripping into Goolengook's rainforest again. Winter has set in, and the road is too boggy to drive log trucks in, so they are building roads — paid for by the Victorian
By Sean Healy
Organisers of the 26th Resistance national conference have scheduled a special tribute to murdered East Timorese resistance leader David Alex as part of the conference. Alex, the second in command of the Falintil guerillas, was
Protest stops sand mining
By Bernard Wunsch
NORTH STRADBROKE ISLAND — A five-week protest camp outside the Gordon sand mine operated by Consolidated Rutile Limited has ended with conservationists claiming victory after keeping the mine
A child of poverty in modern Iran
A True StoryDirected by Abolfazi JaliliSydney Film Festival Review by Brendan Doyle
There are films that stay with you long after the screening. For me, this tiny-budget, hardly edited and atrociously
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Anti-nuclear campaigners in Russia are locked in battle with state authorities over plans by the Atomic Energy Ministry to start a lucrative business reprocessing domestic and imported nuclear waste. If the ministry
By Marina Cameron
After the federal government cut $2.3 billion from university operating grants last year, university administrations have been scrabbling to make up costs by cutting staff, courses, libraries and services and charging more
ALP right loses AWU elections
By James Vassilopoulos
In elections in the Australian Workers Union, the positions of national secretary, national president and two of the four national vice-presidents have been won by a broad coalition,
By Filomena da Silva
Another Timorese freedom fighter has fallen. David Alex Daitula, 46 years old, was Falintil deputy chief of staff, regional commander in the Bacau area, and one of the earliest fighters for Timorese nationalism with the
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