>Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 09:27:16 -0700 >From: Green Left Parramatta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * > Green Left Weekly, > Issue #405 > May 17, 2000 > Australia's radical weekly > http://www.greenleft.org.au > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Green Left Weekly provides news, information, opinion and debate from an >environmental and left perspective. > >Featured this week: AUSTRALIA STEALS EAST TIMOR OIL -- AGAIN > >Both the ALP and Coalition are evading calls by East Timorese leaders that >the Timor Gap Treaty, signed in 1989 between the Australian and Indonesian >governments, be renegotiated to enable East Timor to benefit from its own >oil and gas reserves. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >COVER STORY > > * Scrap the Timor Gap Treaty > >FEATURES > > * Rebels in the unions: A unionism that won't buckle > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] > * What are shares really for? > >INTERNATIONAL NEWS > > * WORLD BANK: a wolf in sheep's clothing > * MOZAMBIQUE: WB destroys cashew industry > * UNITED STATES: `Fair trade' or international solidarity? > * UNITED STATES: An ugly coalition > * ZIMBABWE: Why Britain fears Mugabe's land gamble > * SOUTH AFRICA: Millions strike over job losses > * SOUTH AFRICA: Misdirected strategy weakens workers' movement > * PHILIPPINES: Army must withdraw from Mindanao > * Special fund appeal for a special issue > * BRITAIN: Labour cracks down on asylum seekers > * LEBANON: Israel bombs again as deadline nears > * PALESTINE: Teachers resume strike > * WEST TIMOR: Militia terror continues > * BOUGAINVILLE: PNG frustrates independence referendum > * UNITED STATES: March for immigrant amnesty > * UNITED STATES: Nike cuts support to universities > * SRI LANKA: Government in crisis as Tamils advance > * PUERTO RICO: US Navy clears protesters from Vieques > * INDONESIA: Union leader tours Australia > * EAST TIMOR: Old CDs needed for East Timor > >ISSUES > > * Shiftworkers to gain on penalty rates > * Canberra fiddles with more than the accounts > * Domestic violence program debated > * Everything you need to know to dob in a dole bludger > * Australia stalls anti-pollutants treaty > * Child-care expansion not an option > * Networker: Looking for love > >NEWS > > * Song for Reconciliation > * Lucas Heights reactor shutdown: mum's the word > * Tax office workers strike > * Students occupy UQ Senate chambers > * Workers rally against Telstra fat cats > * Police attack Beverley blockade > * Security guards attack picketers > * Murdoch students fight course cuts > * Let off for minister over Yanner affair > * Activist forced off union body > * `Vote with your feet' on May 28 > * Newcastle protests treatment of refugees > * Action updates > * Students tell Nike: `Just stop it' > * Bondi protests Olympics impact > * Student action forces VC onto back foot > >CULTURAL DISSENT > > * Short Story: Budget initiative > * Rod Quantock: Serial satirist captured > * Peter Hicks: Songs of protest, humour, justice and love > * Peter Hicks' tour dates > * Democratic Socialist Party's web site praised > * Cartoon: From Out of Leftfield > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Articles posted are as they were before proofreading, and prior to any >final changes in the printed version. > >All articles appearing in Green Left Weekly, and reprinted here, are >copyright by their authors. However, most regular contributors have granted >permission for their work to be republished by non-profit green, left, >human rights or generally progressive publications. > >Where such permission has NOT been granted, articles are marked with the >symbol && in the index above. Before reprinting such an article, or if >uncertain whether your publication is allowed to reprint, please inquire by >e-mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >ALL cartoons are copyright and must not be reproduced without permission of >the artist. > > We like to know what audiences we are reaching, and would therefore >appreciate being informed of any republication (in print or >electronically). > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > * > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi ___________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe/unsubscribe messages mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________
