World Affairs: Australasia
Lead Feature
Workers of the world unite
The world's first truly international trades union looks set to be unveiled with a membership of more than 3m as the labour movement goes global
In australasia
Indonesia's persecuted
- By Robert Pringle
- 16 June
Retired US diplomat Robert Pringle explains why Ahmadiyya Muslims have been a target of sectarian violence and government persecution and how this threatens pluralism in the country
A miracle convention for the disabled?
- By Victoria Brignell
- 03 June
Fine words without actions are meaningless but actions usually only come about after fine words have been written - Victoria Brignell celebrates a new UN convention
Sundaland
- By Paul Rodgers
- 28 May
Where do we come from? Paul Rodgers charts some of the latest work exploring the movement and development of humans based on DNA and the full mitochondrial genome
The battle for Aboriginal rights
- By Jaimie Kaffash
- 15 April
An apology from Kevin Rudd to Australia's aboriginals and a pledge about closing the life expectancy gap are steps in the right direction
Euthanasia, censorship and NZ
- By Paul Evans
- 28 March
Paul Evans reports on strict laws in New Zealand censoring what citizens there can read and argues there is a growing resistance to this 'assault on free speech'
Australia's hidden empire
- By John Pilger
- 06 March
That Canberra runs an imperial network is unmentionable, yet the chain of control stretches from the Aboriginal slums of Sydney to the South Pacific
Feature
Power v poverty
Privatisation, free trade and market forces . . . the rich world insists poor states play by our rules. But they don't work. Time to let countries determine their own destinies?
More in australasia
Another country
- By Simon Carr
- 06 March 2008
Catching the last tram home
- By John Pilger
- 21 February 2008
Rudd was a safe bet
- By Peter Wilby
- 29 November 2007
Still the lucky country
- By Julianne Schultz
- 16 August 2007
No more victims
- By Noel Pearson
- 16 August 2007
A pretty determined bastard
- By Tom Bentley
- 16 August 2007
Over here
- By Ryan Heath
- 16 August 2007
