Dave Wright

  • Testimony blocked in child rape case

    Testimony blocked in child rape caseHOBART — A Supreme Court judge has refused to swear in a 12-year-old boy because he did not believe in God. The boy was called to give evidence against the man accused of raping him.

  • PSU election challenge in Tasmania

    Hobart — The Independent Reform Group will stand candidates for all official Public Sector Union positions in the November PSU Tasmanian branch elections. The IRG will be campaigning particularly against what it calls

  • EZ sacks 330

    EZ sacks 330Hobart — Pasminco Metals EZ has sacked 333 workers at its Risdon plant. EZ is implementing a comprehensive plant restructure which it claims will save over $8 million. Unions believe that the company

  • 24-hour strike at Risdon refinery

    24-hour strike at Risdon refineryHobart — Five hundred workers went on a 24-hour strike at Pasminco Metals EZ Risdon zinc refinery on September 13. The strike was in response to imminent job cuts and the breakdown in

  • Amcor takes over APPM mills

    HOBART — APPM's Burnie and Wesley Vale paper mills will be sold to the giant multinational Amcor Ltd. The deal, worth $415 million, guarantees Amcor — owners of APPM's domestic rival APM — a monopoly of the fine paper market

  • Groom to legislate against Mabo

    Groom to legislate against MaboHOBART — A campaign of fear and misinformation has begun in Tasmania, orchestrated by those hostile to the recent Mabo High Court decision. They include the Tasmanian Chamber of Mines, the

  • Enterprise 'agreement' a sham

    Enterprise 'agreement' a shamHOBART — Tasmania's new industrial legislation was put to the test last week when the first of several new enterprise agreements came before the new enterprise commissioner. Delta

  • Call to repeal 45D and E

    Call to repeal 45D and EHOBART — Noel Rafferty, state secretary of the Waterside Workers Federation, has called on the Keating government to repeal sections 45D and E of the Trade Practices Act. A resolution

  • Bob Brown stands in Denison

    Bob Brown stands in DenisonHOBART — Dr Bob Brown has announced his resignation from state parliament in order to contest the federal lower house seat of Denison for the Greens. Brown's February 11 press conference

  • Lively forum on Tasmanian industrial reform

    HOBART — Some 100 people attended a very lively, and sometimes heated, debate called "Trade Unions, Jobs, and Industrial Relations in the '90's", at Politics in the Pub here on December 4. The forum, sponsored

  • Lesbian, gay ban lifted in military but not in Tasmania

    Lesbian, gay ban lifted in military but not in TasmaniaThe federal Labor government's decision to lift the ban on lesbians and gays in the armed forces has far-reaching ramifications for the struggle for lesbian and gay rights

  • Conference calls for native forest action plan

    DELORAINE, Tasmania — The first international temperate forest conference held on November 16-17 was attended by over 100 people from around Australia and overseas, including Chile, the United States and New Zealand. Keynote