GLW issue 225, published 1996-03-27.

CPSU delegates reject cuts

By Sarah Harris SYDNEY — Eighty delegates of the NSW Department of Social Security sector of the Community and Public Service Union (CPSU) attended the sector's annual meeting here on March 7-8. Union organisers warned the meeting of impending

Hobart death in custody

By Ben Courtice HOBART — On March 22, a 23-year-old man died in a police cell here. The death made headlines when, the next day, a "street gang" (his friends) went on what the local media described as a "rampage through city streets",

Write on: letters to the editor

New Zealand unions Eva Cheng's review of Jane Kelsey's Economic Fundamentalism (GLW #223) thankfully draws attention to the lie that many here claim to be the New Zealand miracle. However, the accompanying photo might give the impression to

Young feminists speak out

The thousands of people who took to the streets around Australia for International Women's Day showed that feminism is still very relevant to many people. KAMALA EMANUEL spoke with KAREN FRY, ANGELA HATFIELD and CHERYL WALSH about what feminism

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Australian News

Child protection workers defy Kennett

By Kim Linden MELBOURNE — On March 22, child protection workers and their supporters in the state public service struck for 24 hours and held one of the most spirited rallies since the big anti-Kennett demonstrations in 1992. The action was

Lively agenda for conferences

By Bill Mason BRISBANE — The Democratic Socialism '96 conferences are shaping up as "lively discussions of the key issues facing the progressive movement", according to Brisbane conference organiser John Nebauer. Guest speakers at the Brisbane

Further Australian News

International News

Against state racism [France]

By Michel Fiant [This editorial, from the weekly newspaper of Alternative Rouge et Verte, follows a spate of round-ups and expulsions of North Africans in France. Translation for Green Left Weekly by Brendan Doyle.) The government informs us

South Africa: what about the working class?

By Dirk Hartford JOHANNESBURG — It was reminiscent of the heady mass struggles of the '80s. For four hours on January 28, several hundred trade unionists listened to fiery speeches from workers and trade union leaders denouncing the government

Further International News

Editorial

Softening us up

It didn't take long for new treasurer Peter Costello to sound the lament, as every incoming government now does, about the cupboard being bare. We've been told by the treasurer that there is an underlying deficit of $7.6 billion. Not that this

Cultural Dissent

Oz shorts give-aways

SYDNEY — The Chauvel Cinema, in association with the Australian Film Institute, is presenting the second of the 1996 Oz shorts programs — The Shorts Gig. It will screen twice only, on Wednesday, March 27, and Sunday, March 31. This selection

A rare one for the kids

The Indian in the CupboardStarring Litefoot and Hal ScardinoAt Hoyts cinemas from AprilReviewed by Natasha Simons Politically progressive children's films are hard to come by, in particular ones produced by the Hollywood film industry. In this

Further Cultural Dissent

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