Mary Merkenich

  • Jessie Mary (Bon) Hull, March 28, 1915-June 16, 2000

    Jessie Mary (Bon) Hull, March 28, 1915-June 16, 2000I recently read with sadness that Bon Hull had died. Apparently, she died after a short illness. The obituary I read, by Sue Jackson, Judy Morton, Jean Taylor and Dianne Vale,

  • Late-term abortion fans anti-choice flames

    The Victorian state coroner has been asked to investigate the case of a Melbourne woman whose pregnancy was terminated at 32 weeks after she learned that her child was likely to be a dwarf. The Royal Women's Hospital has suspended

  • Gender roles — only two?

    Are there really only two genders — female and male? Fred Nile and other fanatical conservative groupings would certainly like us to believe so. This is not merely an academic question, but an important social concern. Many

  • Teachers in front line against privatisation

    MELBOURNE — Australian Education Union (AEU) members at two state schools have taken action over moves to privatise state schools. Sandringham Secondary College and Blackburn High School are in the front line

  • Melbourne teachers achieve a victory

    MELBOURNE — Australian Education Union members at Mill Park Secondary College in Melbourne's north-west recently stopped an erosion of their working conditions. Mill Park is the second largest state secondary college in

  • Victorian Labor blames teachers

    Victorian Labor blames teachersMELBOURNE — Earlier this month, Victorian ALP leader John Brumby announced his "zero tolerance" education policy. The policy attacks teachers, ignores the real causes of illiteracy and is much

  • 'True blue' Australia

    MELBOURNE — On August 8, as part of the Melbourne International Film Festival, a panel debated the High Court's May ruling to allow New Zealand television programs to be included in the Australian content standard. The panel

  • Teachers stop work in Victoria

    Teachers stop work in VictoriaMELBOURNE —Victorian Australian Education Union (AEU) members struck on May 27 as part of a campaign the AEU has been waging to win a certified agreement with the state government and to get the

  • Victorian teachers to stop work

    Victorian teachers to stop workMELBOURNE — Victorian state school teachers will stop work on November 12 as part of a campaign for a certified agreement with the government. The Australian Education Union (AEU) is seeking

  • Victorian teachers stop work

    Victorian teachers stop workMELBOURNE — Around 4000 Victorian teachers stopped work on February 27 and attended a mass meeting at the Sports and Entertainment Centre to show their anger at the continuing

  • Victorian teachers vote for industrial action

    MELBOURNE — Four thousand angry teachers defeated the Australian Education Union leadership's attempt to exclude industrial action from a campaign to stop school closures at a stop-work meeting on November 21.

  • Is Germany going fascist?

    At first glance, one could be forgiven for thinking, that the federal Republic of Germany is heading in the same direction it did in 1933. However that would be an over-simplification. The German