By Paul Oboohov
SYDNEY — Workers at the Tooheys brewing plant at Libcombe set up a picket line on August 18 following moves by the plant's owner, Lion Nathan, to force redundancies on 156 production workers.
Maintenance workers were
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Rigoberta Menchú to visit Australia
By Alberto Garcia
SYDNEY — Rigoberta Menchú, the Guatemalan human rights leader and the first indigenous woman in the world to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, is to visit Australia. This
By Steve Rogers
CANBERRA — Public Service Union leaders are running for cover in the wake of the August 17 federal budget. On August 25 the PSU National Executive suspended its enterprise bargaining negotiations with the government.
Van Morrison comes full circle
Too Long In Exile
Van Morrison
Polydor
Reviewed by Bernie Brian
Van Morrison fans do not need reviews to tell them to buy one of his albums since he never fails to produce quality music. But if there
Labor's 'Son of Fightback!'
The Catholic bishops have accurately described the Keating government's budget as "Son of Fightback!". It introduces indirect taxes that hit low- and medium-income earners the most and lavishes the largest cuts in
Strangled with his old school tie
In the experience of former NSW Supreme Court Judge Jack Lee QC, men and women had been "getting along very well for years" until someone took a Victorian Supreme Court judge's comments in a rape case out of
Greenpeace campaigns against toxic incinerators
SPAIN — Four Greenpeace activists blocked the chimney of a toxic waste incinerator in Martorell, Barcelona on August 8 to protest plans by Solvay, a Belgian chemical company, to burn toxic
By Dave Riley
There is perhaps nothing so intimate as the food we put in our mouths. In our society each morsel is personalised by an involved process of selection and preparation reproduced in myriad acts performed by millions of diners each
The Wetlands Suite by Sirocco — In a direct broadcast from the Macquarie Marshes in central New South Wales ABC radio presents Sirocco on Saturday September 4, 8 p.m. Officially listed as a wetland of international importance, the Maquarie
Brian Rooney
By Chris Spindler
ADELAIDE — Former State Secretary of the Socialist Party of Australia, Brian Rooney, died of cancer in Adelaide on August 13. He was 58.
Brian was a long term political activist, joining the Communist
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