Government amends VSU legislationMELBOURNE — Amendments to the Kennett government's voluntary student unionism legislation, announced on May 24, add a number of services to the list that can be funded through compulsory fees
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MELBOURNE — The Victorian Liberal government's anti-student union legislation tabled on April 28 could destroy student services and representation completely in universities across the state. The legislation, known as the Tertiary
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Students enrolling on Victorian campuses in recent weeks have been confronted by Liberal students asking them to sign petitions in support of voluntary student unionism (VSU). The Liberal students are trying to gain support for VSU
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MELBOURNE — The campaign to save Northland Secondary College from the Kennett government's cuts has taken a new turn with the announcement on Monday, January 24, that the school would not reopen for the start of the school year.
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The March federal election saw the Labor government re- elected on the promise that it would be "kinder and fairer" than John Hewson's Liberal Party. The ALP wouldn't introduce a GST, or the horror cuts and
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An aged pensioner and spokesperson for the Gungalidda people of the north-west Queensland gulf country has taken on the might of mining giant CRA. Wadjalurbinna, travelling on her pension and sending money home to her 17-year-old
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MELBOURNE — Many of the schools being closed do not fit the guidelines of falling enrolments, and some number seem to have been targeted for their radical programs catering for disadvantaged students. Northland Secondary
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As new entrants to the work force, young people will be the first hit with exploitative individual employment contracts. That has been the experience in New Zealand. In addition, the abolition of weekend penalty rates and the
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MELBOURNE—A July 16 public meeting of about 500, mostly local, residents at the Williamstown Town Hall rejected the planned expansion of the Mobil Altona refinery. The meeting was called by Mobil and the government in response