By Iggy Kim
HOBART — Slow economic growth, combined with substantial cuts in federal grants, means the Liberal minority government will be wielding a very sharp razor in the August 15 state budget. The cuts are likely to badly affect public
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By Pauline Groves
NSW Attorney General Jeff Shaw has announced plans to introduce a bill to protect some confidential professional relationships, including those of counsellors, social workers and journalists. At present, professional conduct codes
By Beavis Marks
With the Howard government pushing its brand of neo-liberalism down our throats, training schemes and traineeships are being "restructured" for the benefit of big business. In March I was made to participate in a CES training
By Norm Dixon
The Papua New Guinea government's highly publicised military offensive to "flush out" pro-independence rebels of the Bougainville Revolutionary Army from their strongholds in central and southern Bougainville has been stalled. Strong
An agreement reached between CRA and the mining division of the CFMEU on July 27 ended the nearly year-long strike at CRA's Vickery coal mine near Gunnedah in NSW. Green Left Weekly's JENNIFER THOMPSON spoke to Vickery CFMEU lodge president Derek
Comment by Jonathan Strauss
A recent ad in the Macquarie University student newspaper Arena reads: "If you're sick of left-wing groups that never do anything, so are we. We have no party line, no paper sales, no nostalgia and no leaders. Greens,
Indonesian activist on tour
By Jo Brown
Nico Warouw, the international officer of the People's Democratic Party (PRD) and a leader of Students in Solidarity with Democracy in Indonesia (SMID), urged support for the growing democracy struggle in
By Max Lane
According to Green Left Weekly sources in Jakarta, at least 47 people were shot and knifed to death in Jakarta during the July 27 military attack on supporters of Megawati Sukarnoputri in the national headquarters of the Indonesian
Like boosting profits
"It was a national Labor government which forged national competition policy and they did it for good and valid Labor reasons." — NSW treasurer Michael Egan, defending his policies against critics at the state ALP's
ANU students censure association president
By Natalie Zirngast and Martin Iltis
CANBERRA — A special general meeting of 80 students at the Australian National University on August 1 voted unanimously that the Students' Association should
Australian activists held pickets on August 2 to protest against the Indonesian government's eviction of supporters of Megawati Sukarnoputri from the headquarters of her party, the PDI, and to condemn the government's crackdown on pro-democracy
Comment by Maree Roberts
The Community and Public Sector Union's July 25 24-hour stoppage (July 31 in Victoria) was a success — not because all CPSU members heeded the union's call, but because they participated more actively than in recent
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