Woodside sacks 429
By Stephen Robson
PERTH — Woodside Offshore Petroleum sacked 429 workers on February 28. One hundred and forty were from the work force of 500 at Karratha and the rest from the Perth-based staff.
Sixty-five of
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Kennett's party votes him 'innocent'
By Karl Miller
Melbourne — Eighteen months ago, Victorians voted the Liberal Party, led by Jeff Kennett, into state government. Labor's disastrous record allowed the Liberals to win merely by claiming
By Frank Enright
"My eyes turned toward Panguna on the right. I was almost shocked by the size of the crater; it was kilometers wide! Entire villages and gardens, mountains, traditions and memories had been dug out and replaced by an enormous
Mugger sues victim
Less than one month after the decision by the Clinton administration to lift its trade embargo against Vietnam, the US State Department announced on March 1 that it is seeking compensation from Cambodia and Vietnam for
By Maree Sutton
A survey by the Australian Youth Institute, a private think-tank funded by Pepsi Cola and Arthur Andersen & Co, hit the headlines last week with claims that young people support some type of work for the dole.
While the
The Wobblies at War: A History of the IWW and the Great War in Australia
By Frank Cain
Spectrum Publications, 1993. 300 pp., $19.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
Every radical lefty's heart has a soft spot for the Wobblies (the Industrial
Dead Heart
By Nicholas Parsons
Directed by Neil Armfield
Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney
Reviewed by Helen Jarvis
Acres of red dust trucked in from the outback set the stage for a gripping account of the clash of cultures and laws —
That's not rain
By Brandon Astor Jones
"The middle class is always a firm champion of equality when it concerns a class above it; but it is its inveterate foe when it concerns elevating a class below it." — Orestes A. Brownson
With South Africa's first democratic election less than two months away, solidarity with the people of South Africa is urgent. MARC NEWHOUSE and ANGIE HARTWIG, two long-time activists in the Australian anti-apartheid movement, have just completed a
Les Taylor
MELBOURNE — Les Taylor died from AIDS peacefully at home on March 8. Les, a long-time member of the Democratic Socialist Party (then the Socialist Workers Party), was an activist in the Hospital Employees Federation and Central
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