http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,7433371%255E2862,00.html
Herald Sun
Man free as bashed wife is deported
By GEOFF WILKINSON
October 2, 2003
A MAN who beat his wife with a broomstick has escaped justice after
she was dobbed in as an illegal immigrant and deported before charges
could b
The Sydney Morning Herald
New bill moves to silence nuclear critics
By Bonnie Malkin
September 11, 2003 - 3:02PM
Civil liberties groups and Lucas Heights residents have labelled a new
bill that outlaws communication on the movement of nuclear waste
"appalling." The provision, within the nuclear
The Courier-Mail
Ellison to pull plug on protest websites
Sean Parnell and Matthew Fynes-Clinton
07nov02
THE Federal Government plans to stop Australians gaining access to
websites used to organise protests.
The move is part of a major crackdown on Internet-assisted crime.
Justice Minister Chris
http://theaustralian.news.com.au/printpage/0,5942,4916796,00.html
The Australian
PM's cell law may ban abortions, say doctors
By John Kerin and Misha Schubert
17aug02
ABORTION could be outlawed under John Howard's stem-cell
legislation, according to IVF specialists who claimed the draft of the
p
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,4114242%255E1702,00.html
Court backs abused woman
AAP
11apr02
WOMEN suffering domestic violence in their home countries may now have a
greater claim to refugee status in Australia after a High Court ruling.
The court today found in favour of a Pa
The Sydney Morning Herald
Terrorism bill 'worst legislation ever seen'
By Lee Glendinning
April 9 2002
Prominent legal professionals condemned the federal Government's
proposed emergency terrorism legislation yesterday, demanding it
be withdrawn from parliament and re-drafted.
During an inquiry
http://canberra.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=news&subclass=local&category=general%20news&story_id=139469&y=2002&m=4
The Canberra Times
April 6, 2002
Explain curb on protesters: MLA
By NICK GENTLE
The order preventing protesters outside the Chinese Embassy from
exhibiting any banners or ma
This story was found at:
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/03/14/1015909883872.html
THE AGE
Heffernan's agenda fits Howard's plan
By Jenny Hocking
March 15 2002
Some years ago, High Court judge Michael Kirby addressed
students at St Ignatius College in Riverview. It was a speech that
Senat
http://www.smh.com.au/news/0203/14/national/national992.html
The Sydney Morning Herald
March 14, 2002
Silence over a crime against humanity
International Editor Hamish McDonald reveals the critical evidence
Australia's spy chiefs have kept hidden, as trials begin in Jakarta
today over violence
The Sydney Morning Herald
Web Diary
Margo Kingston
Cross media endgame
Friday, January 11, 2002
Clear the decks, start the new year fresh, and return to yet another
attempt to abolish the cross media ownership laws. The fights keep
getting harder to stop the Packers getting Fairfax - the wobb
The Australian
US paper lambasts detention policies
By Robert Lusetich, Michelle Gilchrist
07jan02
AUSTRALIA'S image as a faraway paradise to Americans has been shaken by
a front page article in a prominent US newspaper which portrays a
racist, xenophobic nation with an inhumane refugee policy.
The Australian
Editorial: Hill must end the culture of secret defence
07dec01
WE find out about where our soldiers are from foreign wire service
photographs. We hear from Pentagon officials and American newspaper
reports that Australian SAS troops are involved with US Marines in an
advance o
THE AGE
A police state is not the answer
By JOHN CORCORAN
Tuesday 11 December 2001
Australians should be dismayed by the extreme powers the Federal
Government is planning to introduce in the name of fighting terrorism.
There are no difficulties with the moves for a new general offence of
terr
Historic vote was sham, ex-UN chiefs admit
Date: 23/11/2001
By Slobodan Lekic in Jakarta
Racked by separatist struggles across its vast chain of islands, Indonesia
is being especially haunted by a referendum 32 years ago that former United
Nations officials now admit was a sham.
The region i
http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/24/text/world15.html
The Sydney Morning Herald
Caring Shell sues youths for $48m
Date: 24/10/2001
London: Shell, the second largest oil group in the world, is to launch a
multi-million dollar legal action against six Nigerian youths alleged to
have vandalised on
The Sydney Morning Herald
The quality of mercy: food drops in minefields
Date: 10/10/2001
Aid agencies say the US relief operation is dangerous and cynical,
Christopher Kremmer reports.
The American food aid drops over Afghanistan have been criticised as a
potentially lethal stop-gap to human
http://www.dailytelegraph.news.com.au/printpage/0,5942,2946467,00.html
The Daily Telegraph
Terror unleashes a hungry Carnivore
28sep01
OH, bring back those glory days of August, before it felt like One Nation
was running the Government, writes DINO SCATENA. You know, before we'd ever
heard o
Media Release
September 25, 2001
A Gungalidda grassroots perspective on Refugees and the recent events in the US
Not all Aboriginal people agree with the views on asylum-seekers expressed
by ATSIC bureaucrat Marion Hansen (C/T, 22/9/01). I wonder if working for
the Government has affected he
Media Release
Wednesday 26th September 2001
Deaths In Custody Remembrance Ceremony - John Pat Day
This Friday 28th September is the anniversary of the death of 16 yr old
John Pat.
John Pat was a young Yinjibarndi man who died of closed head injuries, in a
police cell in Roebourne, Western A
The Sydney Morning Herald
Women set to benefit as Europe broadens definition of refugee
Date: 14/09/2001
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in Brussels
Women fleeing "gender discrimination" will be able to claim political
asylum in European Union member states under rules set out by Brussels.
The mov
SUANPA
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Speaker: Yaluritja Isaacs
World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimina
Australian Financial Review
Rationalism fails the ethics test
Kashona Carnegie
01/08/2001
We are walking on a knife edge between the possibility of an ethically
sustainable society and our current unethical world where big business
devours people, nature and other businesses in the name of bigg
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newslink/daily/newsnat-29jul2001-25.htm
ABC News
Sun, 29 Jul 2001 10:11 AEST
CIA tries to recall 'Indonesian purge' book
The United States Government is trying to recall copies of a State
Department history detailing the American role in the purge of Indonesia's
commu
The Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/webdiary/0107/27/A53642-2001Jul25.html
Wednesday July 25, 2001
Margo Kingston's Web Diary:
Today, the view from the trenches in Genoa, courtesy of my brother Hamish
Alcorn.
COMMUNIQUE FROM NYC-YA BASTA! and THE NYC-DIRECT ACTION NETWORK IN GE
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,2095628^11610,00.html
The Australian
Whose list are you on?
Your income. Your sexual preference. Your spending habits. Your health. The
way you vote. Is nothing private? Not really, writes Natasha Bita
09jun01
HE called from a phone box. For $10,
http://www.smh.com.au/news/0106/08/text/national8.html
The Sydney Morning Herald
Foreign academics threaten black list over sacked Steele
Date: 08/06/2001
By Aban Contractor, Higher Education Writer
The sacking of Dr Ted Steele by the University of Wollongong has attracted
unprecedented intern
Herald Sun
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/printpage/0,5481,2061849,00.html
GST puts $600 on uni debts
By ANDREW PROBYN
01jun01
ONE million Australians today owe the Federal Government up to $600 more
because of the GST's impact on their HECS debts.
Student debts under the Higher Education C
http://www.theage.com.au/news/2001/05/09/FFXDKUNJGMC.html
THE AGE
Police use race-hate bylaw on protest
By LARISSA DUBECKI
and JULIE SZEGO
Wednesday 9 May 2001
A controversial and rarely used bylaw aimed at preventing the distribution
of race hatred material has been used against protesters ou
army officer
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The Sydney Morning Herald
Australia covered up Indonesian atrocities in Timor, says army officer
Date: 09/05/2001
By Jill Jolliffe in Darwin
An Australian Arm
The Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/0104/27/text/features7.html
Yarralumla boys' club is safe for another term
Date: 27/04/2001
So you couldn't find even one woman suitable to be governor-general, eh, Mr
Howard? Well, Anne Summers has a few suggestions.
Once upon a time in Aus
Twenty-first Century
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Australian Prisons Becoming the New Asylums of the Twenty-first Century
NEWS RELEASE
9 a.m. Thursday, 26 April, 2001
A new policy paper to be launched today by the policy and research arm of
Jesuit Soc
Amnesty calls for protest over contentious bill
Source: AAP|Published: Wednesday March 28, 9:06 AM
Amnesty International today called on voters to ask politicians to reject a
bill preventing Australians from taking human rights issues to court.
An Amnesty spokesman in London said the so-called
http://www.theage.com.au/news/2001/02/16/FFXSZUDB7JC.html
THE AGE
New generation gives Suzuki a retirement gift: hope
By CLAIRE MILLER
Friday 16 February 2001
After nearly four decades of fighting to save the planet, the evergreen Dr
David Suzuki is talking about retirement. It is not that he
The Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/0102/08/text/pageone8.html
Revealed: top troops spied on Olympic crowds
Date: 08/02/2001
By David Lague, Defence Correspondent
Elite Special Air Service (SAS) troops were deployed under cover in plain
clothes to assist police in crowd surve
THE AGE
'Honor killings' happen here, too
Thursday 1 February 2001
Pamela Bone ("No honor in barbarism", on this page last Thursday) deserves
praise for condemning the barbarism of "honor killings" and clitoridectomy.
The killing of women, whether under the Islamic veil or in a mini-skirt at
THE AGE
http://www.theage.com.au/cgi-bin/print_article.pl?path=/news/2001/01/25/FFXI36PVBIC.html
No honor in barbarism
By PAMELA BONE
Thursday 25 January 2001
On a day in May, 1994, Kifaya Hussein, a 16-year-old Jordanian girl, was
strapped to a chair by her 32-year-old brother, who gave her a
For immediate release
New Reconciliation Party Convenes Via the Internet
ARP membership drive in readiness for Federal election
25 January 2001 - The Australian Reconciliation Party (ARP), the country's
newest political entity, has launched itself to the Australian public, in
time for conside
Mayu Kanamori's "Heart of the Journey" will be shown at the Perth Fringe
Festival from 31 Jan to Feb 3, 2001.
http://www.mayu.com.au/info/news.html
mayu kanamori
philosopher's photos
wa fringe festival
presents
The Heart of the Journey
31 Jan - 3 Feb 2001
Time: TBA.
Admission: $10
The Blue Roo
http://www.smh.com.au/news/0012/20/text/world1.html
The Sydney Morning Herald
Australia denies UN its secret files of Timor terror
Date: 20/12/2000
By Lindsay Murdoch, Herald Correspondent in Jakarta
Australia has withheld from United Nations prosecutors hundreds of hours of
secret communicat
The Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/0011/23/text/features7.html
What's Big Kahuna got to do with booze and prehistoric sexism?
Date: 23/11/2000
It is hard to believe the universe was created by a leering git upstairs
for the pleasure of other leering gits in the gutter, opines
THE AGE
http://www.theage.com.au/cgi-bin/printversion.pl?story=3D20001116/A52480-2=
000Nov15
Public services at the sharks' mercy
By KENNETH DAVIDSON
2000-11-16 00:45:08
Like the shark, the federal Coalition is a force of nature. Few people
blame the shark that attacks a surfer. Similarly, it is
THE AGE
Why hard work isn't working any more
BY SHARON BEDER
2000-10-20 23:03:01
It is no accident that the downsizing of the 1980s and '90s has been
accompanied by a resurgence in propaganda aimed at reinforcing the work ethic.
The wave of retrenchments and sackings in English-speaking countri
THE AGE
A true Australian hero
By JOHN PILGER
2000-10-20 00:07:41
Charlie Perkins was, in many ways, Australia's Mandela. Indeed, had the
Australian racial composition been reversed, as in South Africa, he would
have surely fulfilled that role. Instead, he struggled until his death for
justice
The Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/0010/17/text/national3.html
Timor's oil and gas share 'must be seen to be fair'
Date: 17/10/2000
By DAVID LAGUE
The United Nations is determined to enforce what it believes is East
Timor's legal right to 90 per cent of Timor Sea oil and gas
Health
5:30 pm AEST October 10 2000
ACTU launches National Stress Free Day
AAP --
Got a headache or backache? Feel constantly tired, anxious or lacking in
energy? Finding it hard to sleep?
These are the symptoms of on-the-job stress that workers will be encouraged
to alleviate during Nat
The Sydney Morning Herald
PM backed 'flawed' UN pact
Date: 05/09/2000
By MARK RILEY, in New York, and MARK METHERELL
United Nations officials have vented their anger at the Federal
Government's refusal to sign a protocol on women's rights by revealing that
Australia played a central role in d
Australian Financial Review
Corrigan: police talk to witnesses
By Stephen Long
2000-08-21 02:53:47
Two years after the last big waterfront dispute, Australian Federal Police
officers are still pursuing evidence for possible perjury charges against
Patrick Stevedores chief executive, Mr Chris Co
THE AGE
http://www.theage.com.au/news/2820/A13431-2000Aug18.html
Nowhere to hide
By DUNCAN CAMPBELL
Sunday 20 August 2000
Governments all over the world have suddenly become embroiled in
controversy about electronic surveillance of the Internet. In the United
States, a political storm has
The Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/0008/10/text/national8.html
Dili film-maker denied entry to Australia
Date: 10/08/2000
By ANDREW CLENNELL in Canberra
A British film-maker who captured famous footage of the 1991 Dili massacre
has been barred from visiting Australia after h
THE AGE
http://www.theage.com.au/news/2803/A46052-2000Aug2.html
Free trade: the icon that has enslaved Kim
Beazley
By KENNETH DAVIDSON
Thursday 3 August 2000
I'M CONFUSED. Reporters at the ALP's national conference in Hobart tell us
that the ALP's parliamentary leaders, Kim Beazley, Simon
The Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/0007/31/text/national14.html
Protest groups prepare to head for Sydney, via Melbourne and Seattle
Date: 31/07/2000
By ELLEN CONNOLLY
Radical protest groups linked with the anti-world trade riots in Seattle
will converge on Sydney on the ope
PRESS RELEASE, GENEVA 29 July 2000
Michael Anderson, Convener of Sovereign Union of Aboriginal Peoples of
Australia, welcomes the UN Human Rights Committee's recommendations
including that the Australian Government applies the principle of
self-determination fo
PRESS STATEMENT
Aboriginal campaigner slams Australian human rights record
Bonn, Germany, 20 July - - An Aboriginal rights campaigner says Australia
should seriously consider withdrawing from the United Nations if it
persists in its condemnation of the UN's human rights organs.
"They can
PRESS STATEMENT
In a statement from Bonn, Germany, Michael Anderson Aboriginal
Political Activist and Claimant for the Lightning Ridge Native Title Claim,
expressed grave concern for Human Rights in Australia under the current
Howard Government.
Comments made in the 7
THE AGE
Why Reith's reforms are out of this world
By KENNETH DAVIDSON
Monday 5 June 2000
Peter Reith is determined to reintroduce the master-servant relationship
into industrial relations by making it illegal for unions to organise
collective bargaining with employers on behalf of their member
THE AGE
http://www.theage.com.au/news/2531/A27709-2000May30.html
World logging bribe claims suppressed
By PAUL BROWN
LONDON
Wednesday 31 May 2000
A devastating report on the destruction of tropical forests by
multinational companies has been suppressed for three years by the European
Commi
THE AGE
http://www.theage.com.au/news/2530/A25930-2000May29.html
ABC chief blasted on independence
By PETER WILMOTH
MEDIA REPORTER
Tuesday 30 May 2000
The chairman of the ABC, Donald McDonald, has come under fire from a newly
elected deputy on the ABC board after telling her that the Federa
The Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/0005/08/text/world6.html
Nike puts the boot into unis
Date: 08/05/2000
Los Angeles: The sportswear manufacturer Nike has withdrawn millions of
dollars of sponsorship from three American universities because of the
activities of campus-based
http://www.theage.com.au/breaking/0004/29/A31225-2000Apr29.shtml
Woman jailed in Yemen because she was raped
Source: AP | Published: Saturday April 29, 5:28 AM
SAN'AA, Yemen - A woman who was repeatedly raped by her father and made
pregnant by him was sentenced to five years in prison by a Yem
Australian Financial Review
http://www.afr.com.au/news/2414/A3338-2000Apr13.html
Friday, April 14, 2000
Outsourcing blow for Government
By Katharine Murphy
The Federal Court has dealt a body blow to Canberra's radical $4 billion
outsourcing agenda, ruling that workers should retain public
http://www.theage.com.au/breaking/0004/11/A63445-2000Apr11.shtml
Company used 'whatever-it-takes' tactics against unions
Source: AAP | Published: Tuesday April 11, 4:40 PM
Hamersley Iron embarked on a deliberate strategy to eliminate unions from
its Pilbara sites from February 1992 onwards and
THE AGE
http://www.theage.com.au/news/2411/A60923-2000Apr10.html
Postgraduate studies `just for the rich'
By CAROLYN JONES
EDUCATION CORRESPONDENT
Tuesday 11 April 2000
The professions are becoming the preserve of rich students due to Federal
Government education funding cuts, postgraduate
THE AGE
http://www.theage.com.au/news/2407/A53716-2000Apr6.html
Anger at woodchip export approval
By CLAIRE MILLER
ENVIRONMENT REPORTER
WITH BRETT FOLEY
Friday 7 April 2000
The Federal Government has bypassed Parliament to allow the Japanese
giant, Harris Daishowa (Australia), to export wo
The Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/0003/31/text/pageone1.html
Australia thumbs nose at UN
Date: 31/03/00
By DAVID LAGUE and MIKE SECCOMBE
A furious Howard Government has launched an unprecedented attack on a
United Nations human rights watchdog after it condemned Australia's
http://www.theage.com.au/news/2329/A36157-2000Mar28.html
THE AGE
Export trade in secret canola
By GEOFF STRONG
Wednesday 29 March 2000
Government documents reveal that up to half of the genetically engineered
canola being grown secretly in Australia is being produced for commercial
sale, n
http://www.theage.com.au/breaking/0003/21/A22069-2000Mar21.shtml
Secret trials of genetically-modified crops in NSW
Source: AAP | Published: Tuesday March 21, 3:32 PM
By Linda Silmalis
SYDNEY, March 21 AAP - Secret trial plots of genetically-modified crops
were being grown throughout New Sout
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,2294,464674%255E1702,00.html
Maralinga's radioactive scrap sold
From LOUISE ROBSON of AAP
21mar00
11.00am (AEDT) RADIOACTIVE wreckage from the Maralinga nuclear test site
was sold as scrap by the Australian government - none of it tested for
contamin
http://www.smh.com.au/news/0003/17/text/pageone5.html
The Sydney Morning Herald
Revealed: human rights whitewash
Date: 17/03/00
By MARK RILEY, Herald Correspondent in New York
Politically explosive findings that placed Australia in direct violation of
international human rights conventions we
THE AGE
http://www.theage.com.au/news/2316/A11339-2000Mar15.html
Queue jumpers and other myths
By GLENN NICHOLLS
Thursday 16 March 2000
WE ARE demonising boat people. It's in our interests, as well as theirs,
that we stop it.
Fallacy 1: They are illegal immigrants
People fleeing persecut
The Age
http://www.theage.com.au/news/2315/A9144-2000Mar14.html
Apologists are revising history to absolve
Jakarta
By SCOTT BURCHILL
Wednesday 15 March 2000
Indonesia would not have been able to illegally occupy and terrorise East
Timor for a quarter of a century without the support it rec
ABC News
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newslink/daily/newsnat-9mar2000-41.htm
Thu, 9 Mar 2000 11:55 AEDT
Stolen Generation [sic] given access to records
For the first time, members of Australia's so-called Stolen Generations
will have unrestricted access to Commonwealth records concerning Aborigina
THE AGE
http://www.theage.com.au/news/2304/A53264-2000Mar3.html
Reith takes new tack on labor [sic] reform
By ANDREA CARSON
WORKPLACE REPORTER
Saturday 4 March 2000
The Federal Government has flagged a new strategy to reform the workplace
relations system, conceding its present plans have
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,2294,332736%255E401,00.html
Evidence mounts on tortured Chechens
From ANDREW KRAMER of AP
18feb00
MALGOBEK, Russia: Chechens trying to leave their war-ravaged republic are
being tortured in Russian detention camps and subjected to severe beatings,
rap
The Age
http://www.theage.com.au/news/2217/A22555-2000Feb16.html
Put free riders on employee entitlements out of business
KENNETH DAVIDSON
Thursday 17 February 2000
LET us not mince words. The use of employees' accumulated holiday,
long-service, redundancy and other statutory entitlements
THE AGE
http://www.theage.com.au/news/2215/A18402-2000Feb14.html
New `overclass' out of touch: welfare group
By DARREN GRAY
CANBERRA
Tuesday 15 February 2000
An "overclass" of people who earned massive six-figure salaries, owned
numerous properties and were out of touch with the rest of so
The Australian
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,2294,318236%255E401,00.html
Free trade leaves the poor marginalised: UN
14feb00
BANGKOK, Thailand: The world's 48 poorest countries are failing to benefit
from free trade and globalisation and face worsening poverty, inequality
and mar
Teen orphan on mandatory sentence found hanged in jail
Source: AAP | Published: Thursday February 10, 5:16 PM
A 15-year-old Aboriginal boy nearing the end of a 28-day jail term today
became the first person to die in custody while serving a mandatory
sentence in the Northern Territory.
The Gr
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,2294,301911%255E1702,00.html
Miner faces fine over 'catastrophic' contamination
From AAP
09feb00
10.30am (AEDT) AN Australian mining company could face international legal
action for compensation following claims of "catastrophic" poisoning of
rivers
Australian Financial Review
Wednesday February 9, 2000
http://www.afr.com.au/content/000209/news/news3.html
Evans warns on GST pay claims
By Paul Cleary
One of the Federal Government's most senior officials, Treasury Secretary
Mr Ted Evans, yesterday delivered a blunt warning to unions not to
Students help set agenda for US death penalty reform
http://www.theage.com.au/breaking/0002/07/A3656-2000Feb7.shtml
Source: AFP | Published: Monday February 7, 1:58 AM
CHICAGO - Thirteen men on death row have been exonerated in Illinois - and
those are the '13 mistakes we know about,' the state'
PLEASE CIRCULATE
Senate Inquiry into the Stolen Generations
On 24 November 1999 Senator Bolkus put forward a motion in the Senate
calling on the Federal Government to settle the Northern Territory Stolen
Generation cases and to establish an alternative method of settling Stolen
Generation cla
The Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/0002/03/text/national21.html
Textile workers 'to walk away with nothing'
Date: 03/02/2000
By BRAD NORINGTON and MARK ROBINSON
Most of the 300 workers who lost their jobs with the closure of National
Textiles last month would walk away with
If anyone has an account with these banks they may wish to reconsider
their patronage...Trudy
ABC News
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newslink/daily/
Tue, 1 Feb 2000 12:10 AEDT
Australians spend big on political donations
Unions, banks, tobacco companies and property developers remain some of
The Canberra Times & AAP
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news2/news2.shtml
Tuesday, 1 February, 2000
Unions hail moral, legal victory over contracts
By TREVOR CHAPPELL
MELBOURNE Unions praised yesterday a Federal Court decision temporarily
stopping mining giant BHP Iron Ore Pty Ltd from offeri
Capital Q Weekly
Community Notes
28 January 2000
Aboriginal Float
Aboriginal workers from ACON (AIDS Council of NSW) and AFAO (Australian
Federation of AIDS Organisations) are co-ordinating a committee for an
Aboriginal community float for this year's Mardi Gras. We are seeking and
Aboriginal
The Australian
http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,2294,263808%255E421,00.html
Reith plan to make directors pay
By SID MARRIS and DAVID NASON
29jan00
COMPANY directors may have to pay workers entitlements out of their own
money if a court finds they deliberately tried to avoid their commitme
Australian Financial Review
http://www.afr.com.au/content/000128/news/news5.html
Friday 28 January, 2000
BHP 'offered $10 million bribes'
By Nina Field
BHP offered "bribes" worth $10 million to induce workers to sign contracts
that would ultimately lead to the demise of unionism in the resourc
http://www.theage.com.au/news/2128/A51297-2000Jan28.html
Internet pollution watchdog launched
By SIMON JOHANSON
THE AGE ONLINE
Friday 28 January 2000
Backyard environmentalists will be able to monitor pollution from the
factory next door or those across the country with the launch of a
na
Australian Financial Review
http://www.afr.com.au/content/000125/news/news3.html
Tuesday, January 25, 2000
Bosses win under Reith scheme
By Chelsey Martin and Nina Field
Big business is set to escape the $100 million bill for a national scheme
to protect workers' entitlements with the Minister
The Australian
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,2294,237329%255E2,00.html
Women in uproar at GST gaffe
By JOHN KERIN and IAN HENDERSON
22jan00
HEALTH Minister Michael Wooldridge compounded the Government's GST blunders
last night, asserting that tampons were not health products and ha
The Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/0001/22/text/pageone1.html
BHP dispute goes global
Date: 22/01/2000
By MARK ROBINSON, TONI O'LOUGHLIN and MICHAEL MILLETT
International unions are threatening to block BHP's $300million iron ore
trade to Japan and South Korea in an escalati
The Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/0001/21/text/national12.html
Deluge of angry e-mail over tax on tampons
Date: 21/01/2000
By TONI O'LOUGHLIN
The plan to apply the GST to tampons and sanitary pads has triggered
furious protests from women, who have bombarded Federal politic
The Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/0001/20/text/features5.html
When PMT meets GST
by Anne Summers
Date: 20/01/2000
I HOPE for their sakes that the Federal Treasurer, Peter Costello, and the
Health Minister, Dr Michael Wooldridge, are not faint-hearted sorts of
chaps, becaus
The Canberra Times
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Thursday, 20 January, 2000
Arrests, injuries as BHP strike worsens
PERTH: Seven unionists were arrested and another was knocked unconscious as
strike action against BHP's operations in Western Australia's Pilbara
escalated ye
Australian Financial Review
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Thursday, January 13, 2000
BHP workers escalate dispute
By Nina Field
Unions are turning up the industrial heat in their dispute with BHP, with
thousands of steel and transport workers yesterday engaging in illega
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Herald Sun
Rich dodge $600m in tax
11jan00
THOUSANDS of rich lawyers and company directors owe nearly $600million in
unpaid taxes.
Thumbing their noses at ordinary workers, they refuse to lodge tax returns
and even plunge into bankruptcy to avoid paying.
And in the m
The Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/0001/08/text/review5.html
A woman's place
Date: 08/01/00
Female prisoners have few to turn to in a system that uses jail to solve
social problems. Wendy Bacon and Tracy Pillemer report.
Caroline has lived behind bars for one year and has tw
The Age
http://www.theage.com.au/news/2107/A10559-2000Jan6.html
The web of corruption
By DAVID IGNATIUS
Friday 7 January 2000
SAILING smoothly into this first week of the 21st century, it's hard to see
storm clouds on the horizon. But they're out there, and one of the darkest
cloud banks
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The Australian
Chechens railroaded back into war zone
From AFP and AP correspondents in Sleptsovskaya and Makhachkala
23dec99
DETERMINED to force Chechen refugees back home, Russian soldiers hooked an
engine to railway carriages filled with Chechens and towed them towa
The Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/9912/21/text/national11.html
OECD doubts benefits of dole work for jobless
Date: 21/12/99
By MATT WADE
Australia's work-for-the-dole scheme impeded unemployed people from gaining
work or acquiring skills which made them attractive to employ
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