AIDS tree project
SYDNEY — The Sydney Park AIDS Tree Planting Project will hold its next planting day on Sunday, June 25, between 10.30am and 4pm. Project organisers are inviting people to plant a tree for a loved one who has died from an
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By Freya Pinney
WOLLONGONG — Miscellaneous Workers Union (MWU) members led a strike at the university on May 8-10 over the hiring of non-union labour. The picket lines, which formed after a rally of 250 people, were maintained for 24 hours and
MELBOURNE — A public meeting held on May 2 resolved to support, in principle, the setting up of a People's Action Centre in shopfront premises in Footscray. The centre will function as a drop-in centre and coffee shop, as well as providing a range
MIM attacks union, locks out miners
By Jim McIlroy
BRISBANE — The deepening confrontation between Mt Isa mineworkers and mining giant MIM Holdings Ltd moved toward a crisis as the company locked out its entire work force on the morning
Aboriginal Autonomy: Issues and Strategies
By H.C. Coombs
Cambridge University Press, 1994. 251 pp., $25 (pb)
Reviewed by Chris Martin
Perhaps the most influential and eloquent white advocate of Aboriginal self-determination, H.C. "Nugget"
And the winner is ...
It's becoming almost farcical. Members of our judiciary espouse extreme sexist comments so regularly that you would swear these people lived with their eyes and ears closed to the real world.
The latest is a comment by
By Dave Rodda
In 1988, having been unemployed for more than a year, I decided that, rather than remain on unemployment benefit forever, I should enrol in a university course. Although this would not necessarily be a magic solution, it would at
By Lisa Macdonald
"Foetal Welfare and the Law", a report released late last month, stems from an inquiry commissioned in 1993 by the Australian Medical Association. It followed several incidents in which women who were about to give birth had
World Environment Day in Hobart
By Ben Courtice
HOBART — The World Environment Day (WED) Committee here is planning events in early June to mark this day of action for the environment. They include a march, rally and band night on June 3,
Land rights first
The ACTU has launched a campaign to take the republican issue out of the hands of the academics and the lawyers. So the unions want a say in the republican issue. That's a very good idea. They should have a say and so should
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