BY SEAN HEALY
Ecuadorian President Gustavo Noboa has backed down on a June presidential decree to impose a 2% sales tax, after a two-day general strike on August 8-9 brought the South American country's economy to a standstill and tens of thousands
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BY SARAH STEPHEN
A storm of public outrage has been provoked by an investigation by ABC TV's Four Corners on the conditions inside Australia's immigration detention centres. The report, screened on August 13, was a damning indictment of the
BY SARAH STEPHEN
The Personal Status Court in North Cairo has dismissed a lawsuit brought against Egyptian feminist and writer Nawal el-Saadawi.
Nabih Al Wahsh, an Islamic lawyer, attempted to have 70-year-old Saadawi forcibly divorced from her
The August 15 agreement between the Australian Catholic University (ACU) and its non-academic staff that provides one year of paid maternity leave, and three weeks of paid paternity leave, is a step forward for women.
There are only two developed
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — Contracted potato growers have accepted an offer by McCain to pay an extra $22 per tonne this year and another $9 per tonne next year for potatoes. This is an important win even though farmers had originally been
BY SEAN HEALY
The capital of the world's only superpower will again be hit by the wave of anti-globalisation protests when as many as 50,000 people are expected to converge on Washington in late September, during the annual meetings of the
Oil giant BP has proclaimed a new identity for itself — British Petroleum now says it is "Beyond Petroleum".
For the world's second largest oil company to move beyond petroleum would be a boon for a world so addicted to oil. Yet what does BP mean
BY BORIS KAGARLITSKY
MOSCOW — The battle in Genoa was not only the key event in the summer of 2001, but also marked a watershed for the anti-corporate movement.
From the outset, the G8 summit in Genoa was doomed to become nothing more than a
the moon has moved
the birds are involved in civil war
taxation has stopped the reach of trees
into the blue identity of heaven
the nine models of evil justice
have resulted in uncolliding planets for whose
existence most of us must take
BY JIM GREEN
A report written by a US nuclear consultancy firm calls the bluff on the federal government's claim that a new nuclear reactor is required in Australia to produce medical isotopes.
The report, titled Alternatives to a 20 Megawatt
BY FEDERICO FUENTES
MELBOURNE — Indigenous, trade union and religious leaders from around Australia and the region will gather here in September to sign a memorandum of understanding in support of West Papua's independence struggle.
The
BY JIM MCILROY
The country's peak welfare group, the Australian Council of Social Services, has called for an immediate suspension of Centrelink's harshest penalties on recipients of unemployment benefits, pending an independent inquiry into the
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