Seminar slams enterprise bargaining
By Jim McIlroy
BRISBANE — "The problem of enterprise bargaining is the fault of the whole trade union movement", Queensland Transport Workers Union vice-president Paul Hooper told a 50-strong seminar
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Still going strong
By Bernie Brian
Even though they have been playing together for over 3O years, the five members of the Chieftains obviously still enjoy it. I suppose you could excuse them if, like some successful performers, they
Port Macquarie residents challenge hospital secrecy
By Karen Fredericks
SYDNEY — The Hastings Hospital Action Group (HHAG) has lodged an appeal under the NSW Freedom of Information Act against the refusal by the NSW Department of Health
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Remarkable events have unfolded in the Ukraine since early June. A huge wave of strikes has forced President Leonid Kravchuk to endorse the call for a vote on confidence in his rule. The country's parliament has
AIDEX protester arrested
By Maurice Sibelle
BRISBANE — Jim Dowling, AIDEX protester and Catholic Worker, was arrested and jailed for 10 days on June 11. Police were executing a warrant for his arrest over charges relating to his
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Threatening to embarrass President Boris Yeltsin with national protest actions on the eve of his Constitutional Assembly, Russian tertiary students on June 3 forced the government to meet a series of unfulfilled
By Di Quin
MELBOURNE — Support for the occupation of Richmond Secondary College is gaining ground despite a state Equal Opportunity Board decision to dismiss a claim made by two male students that the Kennett government's decision to close
By Greg Ogle
Troops firing on unarmed protesters in Australia? Almost unthinkable, but it is a possibility which is clearly planned for in an official (though secret) Australian army document which was leaked recently. The peace movement got
Frankly
"I was frankly horrified." — NSW Liberal MLA Phillip Smiles, telling the court how he felt when an officer of the Taxation Office told him he had incorrectly claimed as a business expense the wages of a nanny who was no longer working
By Steven R. Galster
The call on Richard Moulton's undercover telephone line was from El Salvador. On the other end was a man known as "Wiseguy", the subject of a federal sting operation that Moulton was conducting from his small sixth-floor
By Max Lane
Among the 5000 delegates gathered in Vienna to discuss human rights are non-government organisations (NGOs) lobbying governments to take more principled and concrete stands on human rights. Already the Asia-Pacific NGOs have had
By Leigh Dix
and Peter Devereux
MANAGUA — Ranked among the 25 poorest nations on earth, the small Caribbean country of Haiti elected, in late 1990, a leftist priest as president. Jean Bertrand Aristide received the presidential sash from
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