Jennifer Thompson

  • Unions rethink ANL privatisation

    Unions rethink ANL privatisationThe Maritime Union's (MUA) favoured bidder for the publicly owned shipping company, the Australian National Line (ANL), withdrew its bid on May 22, sparking a rethink on union agreement

  • Privatisation: chasing fool's gold

    Prime Minister Paul Keating, Treasurer Ralph Willis and finance minister Kim Beazley indicated their contempt for the rest of the government by not even telling it beforehand about the plan to sell the government's remaining

  • Noted author on trial in Turkey

    Turkey's most famous author, Yashar Kemal, went to trial in a State Security Court on May 5, charged with "disseminating separatism" under Article 8 of Turkey's Anti-Terror Law. The basis for this charge was the views Kemal

  • Health insurance bill draws criticism

    Health insurance bill draws criticismFederal health minister Carmen Lawrence's Health Legislation (Private Health Insurance Reform) Amendment Bill has drawn criticism from a wide range of doctors, specialists and

  • Israel steps up land grab

    Israel steps up land grabIsrael's announcement of the confiscation of 53 hectares of Palestinian-owned land in East Jerusalem, to build a new Israeli settlement and a police headquarters, is the biggest single land

  • Green senators oppose budget cuts to social spending

    WA Greens senators Dee Margetts and Christabel Chamarette are opposing social spending cuts in the 1995 federal budget, arguing instead for an increase in corporate taxation and cuts to defence spending. Speaking to

  • Israel reported advising Turkish forces in Iraq

    Israeli military experts are helping the Turkish government combat Kurdish separatist guerillas, the French weekly "confidential" newsletter TTU said on March 17. The newsletter, which uses unnamed sources, said Turkey

  • Keating's budget strategy: son of Fightback

    The clamour of demands for action to cut the federal budget deficit and current account deficit has risen in the past month to a cacophony. Federal Labor faces the recurring problem associated with a period of economic

  • Israel steps up annexation plans

    In defiance of the Oslo peace accords, the Israeli government is continuing the policy of new settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories and proceeding with Israeli Prime Minister Rabin's plans to wall off these

  • And where is the ACTU?

    You could be excused for not knowing it, but the ACTU has some policy positions that are relevant and useful in the current debate about woodchipping. Sadly, the peak union body is being unusually reticent about expressing

  • DEET workers strike over staffing

    Department of Employment, Education and Training officers struck for 24 hours on February 1 for the necessary staff to carry out additional duties associated with the government's 1994 white paper on unemployment. The

  • Kurds defy repression by Turkish army

    A report in late January from the liberal Turkish Daily News unveiled the latest in the Kurdish struggle for independence: a Kurdish-language satellite TV station, broadcasting from Britain. According to the report, the