EZ sacks 330
By Dave Wright
Hobart — Pasminco Metals EZ has sacked 333 workers at its Risdon plant. EZ is implementing a comprehensive plant restructure which it claims will save over $8 million.
Unions believe that the company
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By Karen Fredericks
Arthur Dent awoke one morning to discover that his house was about to be demolished to make way for a freeway, and his day got worse from there. By mid-morning, clad only his pyjamas and cowering in the hold of an alien
By Norm Dixon
Three senior chemical company executives in South Africa are being tried for murder following the death of a worker from mercury poisoning in July. The case, believed to be the first prosecution of its kind, has exposed the callous
Minjerribah's loss is eternity's gain
By Brandon Astor Jones
Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker), our late sister from Stradbroke, has graciously left us many gifts, not the least of which is her poetry.
I have chosen the following
By Ana Kailis
AUCKLAND — An October 29 Herald opinion poll shows support for the Alliance (composed of Greens, Democrats, NewLabour, Mana Motuhake and Liberals) growing. Support for the Alliance has risen from 12% a week ago to 17%. Pockets of
By Wendy Robertson
MELBOURNE — Despite being signatory to an agreement which protects forests of high conservation value, the Victorian government announced on October 27 that it was giving the go-ahead to large-scale woodchipping in the old
Anger and Love
By Justina Williams
Fremantle Arts Press. 280 pp. $16.95
Reviewed by Dave Riley
In answer to the question, "Are you or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?", many supporters of the federal Labor government
Public sector strike
By Geoff Spencer
MELBOURNE — There was a 70-80% stay-away rate of Public Sector Union members here during the strike on October 25.
Picket lines were set up at all major public service offices in the city (ATO,
Something to sing about
The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Choir recorded live by the ABC
Larrikin records, $25 (proceeds to the AIDS trust of Australia)
Reviewed by Karen Fredericks
One of the things I really regret missing this year is the
By Sue Bolton
MELBOURNE — Ray Fulcher, a Public Sector Union delegate for Department of Social Security Area West B Victoria, has had his rights to use departmental facilities withdrawn.
In a letter dated October 27, Kerry Blackburn, the
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