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Unemployment and NESB Unemployment, especially for mature aged people who have always had a job, is particularly difficult to cope with; but if you come from a Non-English Speaking Background (NESB) and find it difficult to communicate and
By Pip Hinman On most supermarket shelves these days, tuna cans are marked as "dolphin safe". For the unsuspecting consumer, the purchase of this item is preferable to those that are unmarked, which consumers rightly suspect to be the product
Henry Thiagaraj gave the following speech at the World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna in June. It is in achieving the supreme goal of "all human rights for all" that we bring to the attention of this august body the plight of the 250
Paying for enterprise bargaining By Ray Fulcher MELBOURNE — A document circulated to DSS managers on July 19 advises them of the amount of salary dollars and ASL (Actual Staffing Level, i.e., jobs) they will be losing in order to pay
By Sean Malloy Palestinian academic, Dr Ilham Abu Ghazaleh, toured Australia recently for the United Church, speaking on a range of issues relating to the occupation of Gaza and the West Bank by Israel. A linguistics professor at Jerusalem's
By Karen Lee Wald HAVANA — Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega renewed his calls for a sharp turn in Nicaraguan President Violeta Chamorro's economic policies and the establishment of a "government of national unity", in light of the recent
By Nilotpal Basu A massive popular struggle is rocking Nepal. The struggle is reviving the memories of the huge people's movement for the restoration of democracy in 1990-91. But the political forces that fought the struggle for
Connections: The Spirit of Crazy Horse SBS TV Thursday, August 19, 8.30 p.m. (8.00 Adelaide) Reviewed by Ignatius Kim To understand a people, one must understand their origins, says a Lakota activist interviewed in this moving
Jazzmatazz Volume 1 Guru Chrysalis Records through EMI Reviewed by John-Paul Nassif Jazzmatazz, an experimental fusion of hip-hop and live jazz, is one of the first full-fledged attempts to fuse rap and jazz. It is hosted and compiled
By Hugh Williamson Japan's economic boom of the late 1980s has run into trouble. Workers are the first to bear the burden — lower wages, higher unemployment, worsening working conditions, and so on. Wage increases agreed to late March

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