Nuclear waste dumped in SA
By Emma Webb
ADELAIDE — The first of 120 semi-trailer loads of radioactive waste from the Lucas Heights nuclear reactor in Sydney have been transferred to South Australia's far north. By the time the operation
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By Max Anderson
LONDON — The Unions 94/Campaigning for the Future conference was held at Congress House on November 19, "to discuss how to restore the influence of trade unions in the political and economic climate of the 1990s".
In his
Despite the threat of punitive action against striking oil transport workers and union officials, the Transport Workers Union (TWU) is pressing ahead with its campaign for a 15% pay increase across the transport industry. Oil industry drivers decided
The sins are the advertisers'
Real Gorgeous: the truth about body and beauty
By Kaz Cooke
Allen and Unwin, 1994. 260 pp., $19.95
Reviewed by Kylie Budge
"According to diet lore, 'indulging' or 'giving in to temptation' is a 'sin'.
Women get AIDS too
By Kath Gelber
December 1 is again World AIDS Day. Around Australia and internationally fundraising and awareness-raising events have been organised, some more light-hearted and others more serious. In Sydney's Double
By Cassandra Fazio
I am on the plane, descending into Sydney, having left California the day of our tragic election results. I am seated next to a US pollster, one who finally asked my opinion of our democratic charade.
I lamented that our
Indian Ocean union conference
By Stephen Robson
PERTH — The third Indian Ocean Region Trade Union conference concluded here on November 25. Represented at the six-day conference were 60 overseas trade unionists from South Africa, India,
By Tony Hastings
"We were all like brothers and sisters, we're all in it together. We thought we might all get arrested — and we did!", laughs Russel, a Skyrail blockader.
The blockade hopes to stop Skyrail, a privately owned cable-car
Goss under fire over Hinchinbrook fiasco
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — Conservationists have criticised the use of taxpayers' money to fund full-page advertisements attempting to justify the Queensland government's actions over the
Journalist fights for job
By Sean Lennon
MELBOURNE — The campaign by US journalist Sandy Nelson to get her job back has received international support.
In 1990 Nelson was moved to a non-reporting, copy editing job on the Morning News
By Frank Noakes
In the early 1970s the North Sydney Council made a big mistake in annoying 40-year-old Edward Carrington Mack. Plans to build a 17-storey office block against his back fence transformed the quiet government architect into the
Prayer of the Foetus Worshippers
By Dave Riley
Every time I open my wallet an avalanche of lubricated prophylactic extra sensitive thingdimmanies tumble right out. I must find a better spot for them. If nothing "happens" soon, I'll just
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