MELBOURNE — The day after a large May 5 march and rally against the Kennett government's budget cuts and attacks on superannuation benefits of public sector workers, a $2 million "audit" of the state's
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MELBOURNE — In the last days of the Kirner Labor government of Victoria, the report of an independent review of the state public sector's finances (the Nicholls Review) was released. While the media made much of its finding
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The Australian Democrat-initiated independent parliamentary inquiry into tariffs and industry development has called for a 12-month pause in tariff reduction and an urgent reappraisal of industry policy. The final report
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Prime Minister Paul Keating's April 21 address to the Institute of Company Directors was a sharp reminder that his government remains firmly committed to the conservative, "economic rationalist" agenda — despite attempts to
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Occupied school to resist closureMELBOURNE — The parents, students and community activists who are occupying and operating Richmond Secondary College (one of 52 schools official closed by the Kennett government last
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MELBOURNE — Jose Pires left East Timor 17 years ago. He was eight years old. With his brothers and sisters he was bundled into a car and rushed to Dili wharf where the last ship was preparing to depart. The port was ablaze.
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In her first interview after the elections, environment minister Ros Kelly signalled that the Keating government would take a tough stance towards environmental groups. She told the March 31 Melbourne Age that the government's
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In a frank essay for the March 22 Time magazine, retiring industry minister Senator John Button summed up the federal election result: Labor was seen to have "stuffed it", but "in the end, a skeptical electorate decided that
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On May 24, 1991, the Eritrean Peoples Liberation Front (EPLF) won its long armed struggle against the Ethiopian government. In April the Eritrean people will freely express their right to self-determination in a referendum on
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Linn Van Hek and Joe Dolce presented Difficult Women, readings and songs celebrating "women who have dared to stand up and speak", to completely sold out seasons at Melbourne's La Mamma and Budinski's theatres last year. Then,
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The decline in the third party, and especially Democrat, votes in the federal election, compared to 1990, can be expected to renew the pressures for merger between the Democrats and Bob Brown's Australian
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Tax the rich, says Brotherhood of St LaurenceMELBOURNE — According to Bishop Michael Challen, executive director of the Brotherhood of St Laurence (a major welfare organisation) "incomes at the bottom of the scale must