Jonathan Strauss

  • NSW budget hides private profit push

    NSW budget hides private profit pushSYDNEY — "Every inch a Labor budget", NSW treasurer Michael Egan declared on May 7, when he delivered the state government's budget in parliament. Egan was trying to imply that this

  • Campus axed

    Campus axedSYDNEY — The St George campus of the University of New South Wales is to be closed, with the loss of four schools (Teacher Education, Applied and Performing Arts, Sport and Leisure Studies and Wool and Animal

  • ALP backs down on hospital funding

    ALP backs down on hospital fundingSYDNEY — A September 5 rally at Prince of Wales Hospital of more than 1000 hospital workers, patients, building workers from the hospital's construction site and community supporters

  • Heat on APEC energy ministers

    Heat on APEC energy ministersSYDNEY — In an international appeal signed by 64 community groups from around Australia and the Asia-Pacific region, Climate Action Network Australia (CANA) urged an Asia Pacific Economic

  • Indigenous resistance rally

    Indigenous resistance rallySYDNEY — A quickly organised Indigenous Resistance Rally attracted more than 1000 people to Hyde Park on August 18. The rally called for a strong and unified stand against the Howard government's

  • A new way forward for the left?

    A recent ad in the Macquarie University student newspaper Arena reads: "If you're sick of left-wing groups that never do anything, so are we. We have no party line, no paper sales, no nostalgia and no leaders. Greens,

  • WA unions react to threatened legislation

    PERTH — Since the election of the Court government in WA in March 1993, workers' rights have been under constant attack. The introduction of individual work contracts, job cuts in the more highly unionised public

  • New attack on WA workers

    The Richard Court government has introduced a Industrial Legislation (Amendment and Repeal) Bill which launches a new attack on workers' right to organise in defence of wages, working conditions and social rights. A

  • WA DSS delegates oppose redundancies

    WA DSS delegates oppose redundanciesPERTH — Community and Public Sector Union delegates in the Department of Social Security decided on February 7 to oppose redundancies proposed by DSS Area North (covering the

  • Senate 'reform' conceals anti-Green push

    Paul Keating has opened a campaign against election of the Senate by proportional representation. Although not yet advancing any definite proposal, ALP leaders have floated a move to 12 single-member electorates for each

  • The events of 'Mai 68'

    May 3 Nanterres University in Paris was closed by its administration to stop a second day of "anti-imperialist study". In the courtyard of the Sorbonne, the university in central Paris, 500 left-wing students rallied

  • Making sense of the WA election results

    PERTH — How can one judge the significance of election results? Not by the number of seats won, if the February 6 WA elections are any guide. In the lower house of WA's parliament, the Liberals (28 seats) and