Keating's creeping GST
Even ACTU president Martin Ferguson felt the need to make a pretence of attacking the 1993 federal budget. We cannot "defend the undefendable", he said. He failed, of course, to use the opportunity to announce the
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Students protest university regiment harassment
By Max Lane
On 19 August on the Wali Songo State University of Islamic Studies in the major central Java city of Semarang, over 200 students demonstrated against the arrest and beatings of
With unemployment at its highest levels in Australia since the 1930s the question of jobs creation is naturally high on the current political agenda. But one solution has been studiously ignored — a shorter working week, without loss of pay.
Shell pollutes Sydney Harbour
By Pip Hinman
SYDNEY — While more than 10 tonnes of crude oil was spilled in a routine transfer between tankers at the Shell terminal at Gore Cove on July 19, to date, Shell has not been prosecuted.
Fake clemency for Gusmao condemned
By Max Lane
SYDNEY — Spokespersons for the East Timorese liberation movement in Sydney attending the August 14-15 People to People Conference condemned the fake clemency given to resistance leader
By Pip Hinman
A two-month long oil spill in the south-eastern part of the Niger delta in Nigeria is wrecking havoc on the local population and ecology. To date, the operating company, Royal Dutch Shell, has done nothing to stop the flow.
The Mabo Song
A dialogue between a Political Leader and a Captain of Industry
By Dermot Dorgan
Mr Tim: "Oh Mr Hugh, oh Mr Hugh,
o really mean to you?
d one day?
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dole queue, Mr Hugh?"
Mr Hugh: "Oh Mr Tim, oh Mr Tim,
By Max Lane
On August 19, so-called "international negotiators" Lord Owen and Thorvald Stoltenberg were able to announce agreement over the status of the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo. Disagreement on this issue was acting as an obstacle to the
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