The near-meltdown of a nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island in the US in 1979 remains a major warning of the danger of nuclear power generation. What makes an industrial accident involving a nuclear power plant so much more dangerous
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Message Stick: Glenn Skuthorpe — Inside the lives and characters of Indigenous Australians across the country, presented in their own voices. ABC, Friday, June 30, 6.04pm.
The Chaser's War on Everything — Confronting and lampooning key players
Pablo Stefanoni, La Paz
Only a few days out from the July 2 constituent assembly elections and referendum on regional autonomy, the focus of Bolivia's electoral campaign was not any of the candidates — most of them practically unknown to voters
Peter Boyle
Occasionally the innocent casualties of war are given a human face. And it is shocking — sometimes so shocking it can help stop a war.
Last week, in a blogsite (no longer online) by a Cuban doctor serving in East Timor, there was a
Alex Miller
In a near-repeat of the incident last July in which innocent electrician Jean Claude De Menezes was shot and killed at point-blank range by British armed police, Mohammed Abdul Kahar was shot in the chest during a June 2 "anti-terror"
Pip Hinman
As Japan's troops prepare to leave Iraq, PM John Howard has announced that Australian troops will stay, despite the majority of Iraqis not wanting them there. However, the Australian Defence Force's (ADF) shooting of the trade minister's
James Vassilopoulos, Melbourne
Union Solidarity, a community-based organisation with 10 local groups across Melbourne, aims to support workers in struggle. Dave Kerin, the initiator and coordinator of the Melbourne central group, told Â鶹´«Ã½
Doug Lorimer
The Washington Post reported on June 18 that it had obtained a copy of a cable sent to US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice from the US embassy in Baghdad that paints "a starkly different portrait" from the White House's public
Sue Bolton
Spotlight became a lightning rod for mass discontent with the Howard government's anti-worker laws when one of its Coffs Habour employees, Annette Harris, went public about the pressure put on her to sign an individual contract. If
Paul Benedek, Brisbane
"This bridge will mean more cars, more pollution, more asthma, more road deaths, and it will be the vulnerable — pensioners and children — that will suffer the most", a resident told a rowdy June 20 meeting discussing the
Chris Latham
Less than a week after Work Choices came into effect on March 27, the Cowra Abattoir in NSW hit the headlines when it announced plans to sack 29 workers and re-hire 20 on worse conditions and with a $200 pay cut.
PM John Howard
Doug Lorimer
The Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) issued a statement on June 20 complaining that access to Ramadi, capital of Iraq's western Anbar province, "is very restricted. As a result, food and medical supplies are
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