F E A T U R E S

Interview: Battle Stations
Opposition leader Kim Beazley says he's ready to fight for workers right. But come July 1, he'll have to be fighting by different rules.

Unions: The Workers, United
It was a group of rank and filers who took centre stage when workers rallied in Sydney's Town Hall, writes Jim Marr.

Politics: The Lost Weekend
The ALP had a hot date, they had arranged to meet on the Town Hall steps, and Phil Doyle was there.

Industrial: Truth or Dare
Seventeen ivory towered academics upset those who know what is best for us last week.

History: A Class Act
After reading a new book on class in Australia, Neale Towart is left wondering if it is possible to tie the term down.

Economics: The Numbers Game
Political economist Frank Stilwell offers a beginners guide to understanding budgets

International: Blonde Ambition
Sweden can be an inspiration to labour movements the world over, as it has had community unionism for over 100 years, creating a vibrant caring society, rather than a "productive" lean economy.

Training: The Trade Off
Next time you go looking for a skilled tradesman and can’t find one, blame an economist, writes John Sutton.

Review: Bore of the Worlds
An invincible enemy has people turning against one another as they fight for survival – its not just an eerie view of John Howard’s ideal workplace, writes Nathan Brown.

Poetry: The Beaters Medley
In solidarity with the workers of Australia, Sir Paul McCartney (with inspiration from his old friend John Lennon) has joined the Workers Online resident bard David Peetz to pen some hits about the government's proposed industrial relations revolution.

 

Internet Resources for
Australian Activists





This page is designed to be a resource for Australian activists working on a variety of progressive issues.

If you have any comments, please email them to me.

Click links for directory

 

Activist sites

Corporate

Australian Environment

International Environment

Environment sites - US

Forestry industry sites

Gay and queer sites

Global justice sites

Government sites -AU

Indigenous rights sites

Human rights sites

Libraries - Australian

Media sites - Australian

Media sites - International

Media sites - US

Men's sites

Women's sites

Mining sites

New right sites

Party politics - Australian

Public relations sites

Search engines

Union sites

Think tank sites

 

 

 


Activist sites

active - stuff for social change
Activists' Handbook
Direct Action Media Network
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Eat the State
Essential.org WWW Server
Fundraising On-line
How to Lobby Politicians
IGC Activism Internet Resources Collection
ProActivist.com
Protest.Net
Rattle the Cage
subvertise.org
The Ruckus Society
The Virtual Activist
Tools for Nonprofits
Urban75


Corporate monitoring sites

Adbusters
Center for Media & Democracy
Corporate Watch
Focus on the Corporation
McSpotlight
Multinational Monitor
NikeWatch
Public Citizen


Environment sites - Australian

Australian Conservation Foundation
Australian Environment On-Line
Australian Gene Ethics Network
Australian Heritage Commission
Australian World Heritage Areas
BIRDS Australia / RAOU
Critical Mass
Environmental Defenders Office
GreenNet Australia - The Independant Environmental Directory
Greenpeace Australia
Index of Australian Environmental Organisations
The Wilderness Society
Threatened Species Network


Environment sites - International

Cars Cost the Earth
Friends of the Earth - UK
Greenpeace International
International Journal of Wilderness
International Rivers Network
IUCN - The World Conservation Union
Rainforest Action Network
Western Canada Wilderness Committee
World Heritage Committee
World Resources Institute
Worldwatch
World Wild Fund for Nature


Environment sites - US

CLEAR
Earth Island
Earth Share
EcoNet
Environmental Defense
Friends of the Earth - US
League of Conservation Voters
National Audubon Society
Natural Resources Defense Council
National Wildlife Federation
RACHEL's Environment & Health Weekly
Sierra Club
The Nature Conservancy
The Wilderness Society
The Wildlands Project


Forestry industry sites

Forest Alliance of B.C.
Forestry Australia
Hoo Hoo Club
NAFI News


Gay and queer sites

Australian Queer Resources Directory
Cyberqueer Australia
PRIDE - The Sydney Lesbian & Gay Community Centre
Queers for Reconciliation
Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras


Global justice sites

Aidwatch
Australian Council for Overseas Aid
Community Aid Abroad
FOCUS on the Global South
Jubilee 2000
Médecins Sans Frontières
New Internationalist
OneWorld Online
Oxfam International
People-Centered Development Forum
Red Cross - International Committee
World Vision


Government sites - Australian

Australian Governments' Entry Point
Hansard
Australian House of Representative MPs Email Address List
Australian Senators Email Address List


Human rights sites

Amnesty International Australia
Amnesty International
Australian Human Rights Page
Australia-Tibet Council
East Timor Human Rights Centre
Free Timor
Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
Human Rights Watch
Universal Rights Network


Indigenous rights sites

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC)
Aboriginal Studies World Wide Web Virtual Library
Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation
Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation
Frontier Online
InformOz - Native Title and Reconciliation
NativeWeb
Queers for Reconciliation


Libraries

Australasian Legal Information Institute
British Library
National Library of Australia
University of Sydney Library


Media sites - Australian

ABC News
ABC Radio - Background Briefing Transcript Index
ABC - Radio Current Affairs
Australian Centre for Independent Journalism
Australian Financial Review
Australian Options
Crikey
Green Left Weekly
Index of Media sites - Australian and International  
The Age
The Australian News Network
The Chaser
The Sydney Morning Herald
Workers' Online Weekly


Media sites - International

Adbusters
BBC News
Inter Press Service
Environment News Service
Media Channel
New Internationalist
New Scientist
OneWorld News
Resurgence


Media sites - US

Albion Monitor
Alternet
Direct Action Media Network
Eat the State
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
Free Speech Internet Television
LIP
Mother Jones
Project on Media Ownership
Salon
Tom Tomorrow
The Nation
The Onion
The Village Voice
Z Net


Men's sites

Manhood
Men's Health
Men's Issues Page
White Ribbon Campaign

 


Women's sites

Feminist.com
IGC Women Internet Resources Collection
Index of Australian Women's Organisations
National Organization for Women (US)
National Women's Justice Coalition
Women's Electoral Lobby
WomensNet 


Mining sites

Australian Mineral Foundation
Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki
EcoNet Mining Issues Resources
Freeport - Boyer's site
Mineral Policy Center
Mineral Policy Institute
Project Underground


New right sites

Cato Institute
Centre for Independent Studies
Competitive Enterprise Institute
Heritage Foundation
H.R. Nicholls Society
Samuel Griffith Society


Party politics - Australian

Australian Greens
Australian Labor Party
Liberal Party of Australia
The Australian Democrats

(In no particular order - ha.)


Public relations sites

Burson-Marsteller
Center for Media & Democracy
Hill and Knowlton
PR Newswire


Search engines

AltaVista
ANZWERS
Excite Australia
Google
HotBot
Infoseek
LookSmart Australia
Lycos
White Pages (Australia)
Yahoo! Australia


Think tank sites

Center for Responsive Politics
Common Cause
Demos
Ivan Illich Archive
Noam Chomsky Archive
Political Research Associates
The Australia Institute

 

 

And more coming soon…


Union sites

Australian Council of Trade Unions
International Federation of Chemical, Energy and Mine Workers
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
LaborNet (US)
LabourStart
NSW Labor Council
Workers' Online Weekly

 

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