By Jo Brown
MELBOURNE — The Victorian Liberal government's anti-student union legislation tabled on April 28 could destroy student services and representation completely in universities across the state. The legislation, known as the Tertiary
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Comment by Dave Holmes
In Melbourne on May 1, about 1500 people took part in the annual Sunday afternoon May Day march and rally. As usual, the bulk of the participants came from the various left-wing, migrant and solidarity organisations.
Hindmarsh bridge halted
By Anthony Thirlwall
and Col Smith
ADELAIDE — The federal government has ordered a temporary halt to work on the controversial Hindmarsh Island Bridge.
On May 12, Aboriginal affairs minister Robert Tickner
Dr Susan George is well known for her extensive writing on the causes of hunger in the Third World and the social and economic implications of the debt crisis (A Fate Worse than Debt, How the Other Half Dies, Ill Fares the Land). She is a researcher
Saturday Night Clive
ABC-TV, Saturday
Denton
Channel 7, Tuesday and Thursday
Reviewed by Dave Riley
The sentence, for Clive James, is something to carry across the goal line. This is how to score. Listen and laugh because the words speak
Journos to 'finger' strikers?
By Max Watts
SYDNEY— Peter Baker, customer relations manager of Franklins, confirmed to me on May 9 that the company intends to fire some of its employees involved in a strike at its Chullora warehouse, after
Unusual, anyway
"I think there's a unique West Australian style of entrepreneurialism." — Laurie Connell in 1988.
Great something
"I believe I'm in the presence of greatness." — One of a not very large crowd at a New York bookshop where
By Norm Dixon
JOHANNESBURG — The African National Congress began formally to take the reins of government in South Africa during the past week. On May 7, Tokyo Sexwale was sworn in as premier of the province of
The seasons of love
Drowning in a Sea of Dreams
The One Extra Dance Company
Directed and choreographed by Graeme Watson
At the Performance Space until May 22
Reviewed by Gary Boyle
Variations on the theme of love between men and
S-G in waiting
Interviewed on Sunday television two weeks ago, a coy foreign minister Gareth Evans acknowledged that, yes, he might be interested, if asked, in becoming secretary-general of the United Nations. Thus was made public one of the
By Norm Dixon
JOHANNESBURG — "The people of South Africa have spoken ... They want change! And change is what they will get. Our plan is to create jobs, promote peace and reconciliation, and to guarantee freedom for all South Africans. We will
By Melanie Sjoberg
ADELAIDE — The anxiously awaited Public Service Audit review, released on May 3, has confirmed the worst fears of trade union and community activists. The audit found that the state is in debt to the tune of an additional
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