Alex Bainbridge

  • Forest issues in Tasmania

    BY VIV MILEY & ALEX BAINBRIDGE Neil Smith was fined $7000 on October 27 for his part in a 1998 forest protest against the logging of virgin forest at Kooparoona Niara, also known as the Great Western Tiers. Smith was known at the time by the

  • Convoy against proposed woodchip mill

    HOBART — Residents of two rural municipalities, Huon Valley and Kingborough, are organising a convoy to converge at Parliament House on December 10. The gathering is designed to build support among city people for the campaign

  • Tasmanian ALP to formalise 'machine control'

    HOBART — Resolutions proposed for the upcoming ALP state conference by party branches will have only symbolic meaning if the ALP leadership gets its way. The ALP hierarchy is seeking to formalise a situation where resolutions

  • Man elected women's officer

    HOBART — Feminists and socialists have opposed the appointment of a male women's officer at Tasmania University's Launceston campus, calling it a step backwards for women. "Whichever way you look at it, having a man as

  • Labor plan to close Tasmanian schools

    HOBART — The state Labor government has a plan to close schools in Tasmania, disguised by the promise that "no school will be forced to close". The value of this promise is revealed by the dispute that has erupted over the plan

  • Big protest, little politics

    Big protest, little politicsHOBART — "Greenies don't want to take away jobs, we want to save jobs and forests" was the best message that came from the platform of a rally against woodchipping here on August 2. The plea for

  • Cuba solidarity in Hobart

    Cuba solidarity in HobartHOBART — Cuba's revolution has been able to survive because it has tapped the "creative potential" of millions of working people, Democratic Socialist Party leader Dick Nichols told participants in a

  • Protest over plantations

    HOBART — Calls for a moratorium on the rapid increase in timber plantations in the state have increased, following a 200-strong public meeting, organised by the Wilderness Society, in the Town Hall on July 26. The area covered

  • Tasmanian government uneasy about GM food

    HOBART — While it poses as the heroic opponent of federal government support for genetically modified organisms, the Tasmanian Labor government is yet to take any concrete measures against it, or even against controversial

  • Floodgates opened to GM food

    BY DANIEL JARDINE & ALEX BAINBRIDGE "Australians and New Zealanders rarely have any valid basis for questioning the safety of foods on the supermarket shelves for human consumption", Senator Grant Tambling claimed when he launched the

  • Labor rejects maternity leave demands

    BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE & KAMALA EMANUEL HOBART — Tasmania's Labor premier Jim Bacon has rejected calls for state public servants to have access to three months' paid maternity leave. The calls came after state education minister Paula Wriedt's

  • Incat workers denies pay rise despite huge profit

    Incat workers denies pay rise despite huge profitHOBART — Shipbuilding company Incat made a $53 million after-tax profit in 1998-99 — $17 million more than the previous year — yet Incat boss Craig Clifford is denying a