Alex Bainbridge

  • Tasmanian Labor wins a rigged race

    Tasmanian Labor wins a rigged race By Alex Bainbridgeand Tony Iltis HOBART — Tasmania has a Labor government, it was announced on September 12. The election was the first since Labor and Liberal "reformed" the Tasmanian parliament. The new

  • Students organise against attack on arts school

    Students organise against attack on arts schoolHOBART — The Tasmania University Union (TUU) has organised a campaign to protect the university's art school from "rationalisation". The administration is considering closing

  • Democratic Socialists announce candidates in Tasmania

    HOBART — The Democratic Socialists will stand Jenny Forward and Mathew Munro as candidates in the seat of Denison in the coming state election. They are running on the slogan of building a "real opposition" to economic

  • Hydro, Hare-Clark dominate Tasmanian poll

    HOBART — Premier Tony Rundle has ended months of speculation by calling an early state election for August 29, accompanied by a partial dismantling of Tasmania's proportional Hare-Clark voting system. Rundle is campaigning on a

  • Jobs for all sacked wharfies is key demand

    HOBART — Hundreds of Maritime Union of Australia members and supporters marched through the streets of Hobart on April 23, then held a victory celebration as the news of the Federal Court's rejection of Patrick's appeal came

  • The irrationality of uranium mining

    Opening the Jabiluka uranium mine is totally irrational. There is no safe way to mine uranium or to handle any aspect of the nuclear cycle. To claim that the jobs and energy we can get from uranium outweigh the dangers of radon

  • Miners' music

    ROSEBERY, Tasmania — The second annual Rosebery Miners, Axemen, Bush and Blarney Festival was held here over the long weekend February 27-March 1. It attracted hundreds of people — from Rosebery and other towns on Tasmania's

  • Rory McLeod: Left-wing troubadour

    Rory McLeod: Left-wing troubadourRory McLeod is in Australia until April 20. If he's playing somewhere near you, make the effort to see him. Rory is hard to pigeonhole. His bio says he's an "ex-circus clown and fire eater —

  • ALP sells out on Jabiluka

    HOBART — Demonstrators demanding "No Uranium mining" greeted delegates attending the ALP national conference here on January 20. The action was called when activists learned the ALP was to debate a policy calling

  • Cancer inquiry presents findings

    Cancer inquiry presents findingsNEWCASTLE — Fifty people attended a public meeting here on November 8 called to discuss cancer and industrial pollution. Findings were presented from the Workers' Inquiry into Wollongong

  • Arbitration at Hunter Valley mine

    HUNTER VALLEY — The Industrial Relations Commission decided on November 7 to terminate the enterprise bargaining period at the strike-bound Hunter Valley No. 1 mine and begin compulsory arbitration. Miners' union leader Mick

  • Strike resumes at Hunter Valley mine

    Strike resumes at Hunter Valley mineHUNTER VALLEY — Mine workers at Rio Tinto's Hunter Valley No. 1 coal mine resumed their strike on September 8 in response to continuing provocation by mine management. The miners had