Learning, early on
By Brandon Astor Jones
"How does a doctor or a health care worker teach a mother that her children must always wash their hands after playing with the family kitten when [their] tin house is not connected to water? —
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Victorian hospital jobs under threat
By Seetal Dodd
MELBOURNE — Jobs and job security are under threat at the Austin and Repatriation Medical Centre, formed in a recent amalgamation between Heidelberg and Austin hospitals in Melbourne's
This is the text of a speech to a rally against woodchipping, which drew 5000 people in Hobart on March 18. It was given by REBECCA MECKELBURG on behalf of the Environmental Youth Alliance.
The federal Labor government's December decision to
The Drilling Fields
SBS, Tuesday, April 18, 8.30pm
Reviewed by Norm Dixon
This graphic documentary details the dreadful environmental vandalism that oil multinational Shell has visited upon the Niger delta region in southern Nigeria and the
Employable
"With my skills in life, I am employable elsewhere." — NSW Labor right MLA Bob Martin, threatening to resign and cause a by-election if he was dropped from the front bench.
Loyalty
"If you only want to run for the big jobs, what
BRISBANE — 100 people attended the launch of Bomber Grounded, Runway Closed on March 25. The book by Ciaron O'Reilly documents his experiences during his trial and prison sentence in the United States. It details the pre-dawn action of the ANZUS
Next issue April 26
Green Left Weekly is taking a one-week break at Easter so that many of our staff and distributors can participate in the Marxist Educational Conferences. Our next issue will be dated April 26 and will include an interview with
By Lisa Macdonald
Two weeks ago, the ALP, Coalition and Australian Democrats voted themselves a windfall totalling over $15 million.
The Commonwealth Electoral Amendment Bill (No. 2) 1994, passed by the Senate on March 30, was a deal
By Peter Webster
SYDNEY — Social Security workplace delegates from all over NSW attended the Combined Delegates Conference (CDC) at the Community and Public Sector Union's Sydney Office on March 27 and 28.
Important issues discussed
Deal proposed on radioactive waste
A leaked letter from South Australian Premier Dean Brown to Prime Minister Paul Keating reveals that the SA government is attempting to trade its opposition to a radioactive waste repository at Woomera for a
By Pip Hinman
Australia will be well remembered for its role at the two-week climate conference in Berlin. With the so-called left winger Senator John Faulkner at the helm, the Australian delegation collaborated with a handful of rich countries
By Ladislas Niyongira
[This article first appeared in the Rwandan newspaper Kinyamateka. An entire edition of the paper has been translated into French and English by the organisations Reporters Sans Frontieres and World Media Network and is
By Tim Dauth
JOHANNESBURG — "Consolidate and advance": these are the tasks, delegates to the South African Communist Party Gauteng regional congress here decided on March 18-19. The congress recognised that the immediate task is to address the
Reconciling Australia: The Hard Questions — Four prominent Aborigines have their say about the woolly concept of "reconciliation" in a special four-part series. Barbara Flick, indigenous adviser to the AMA, John Ah Kit, executive director of the
The senator's skeletons
The WA senator with domestic violence skeletons in his closet was forced on April 3 to resign from his position as deputy president of the Senate, after his admission of having bashed his wife. Resignation was his only
Thirty-seven people — 22 civilians and 15 alleged guerillas — were killed by the Indonesian army in West Papua between June 1994 and February 1995, according to a report released by the Australian Council for Overseas Aid (ACFOA) on April 5.
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