WA TAFE teachers protest privatisation
By Martin Price
and Anne Pavy
PERTH — Coffins, symbolising the death of TAFE, were carried onto the steps of Parliament House during a rally on May 18 organised by the State School Teachers Union
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Tarkine Tigers arrested
By Ben Courtice
HOBART — On May 16 police arrested seven more activists involved in a vigil on Parliament House lawns to protest against the road being built through the Tarkine wilderness. The vigil had been
Timorese student killed
According to Portuguese press reports, on May 18 East Timorese student Filomeno dos Santos, 26 years old, died in prison in Dili after being tortured for several hours by three Indonesian intelligence agents.
Family
By Frank O'Brien
Donncha O'Kane sees his family three times a year. They travel from Castlewellan in County Down to visit him in prison in Celle in Germany. It is a long, expensive journey and, like the families of the other Irish prisoners held
ROTTERDAM — Greenpeace has found alarmingly high levels of a highly toxic organochlorine chemical in sediments along the eastern edge of the North Sea in the Wadden See, the environmental group said on May 15.
The chemicals, chlorinated
War an increasing threat to women
By Deirdre Graham
Women are increasingly at risk of being victims of human rights abuses because of an increasing number of nationalistic movements worldwide says the human rights group Amnesty
The Nicotine War
The Cutting Edge, SBS TV, Wednesday May 31, 9.30pm (8 in SA)
Previewed by Lisa Macdonald
Nicotine is one of the most addictive substances known. Despite this, in the US, tobacco is defined as an agricultural product and so
By Ray Fulcher
MELBOURNE — At a mass meeting of teachers on May 3, the Victorian State Teachers Association (VSTA) Rank and File Group called for the suspension of standing orders to discuss the case of John Glazebrook.
Four months ago,
The Aryan Nation: A Cross to Burn
SBS TV
Monday, May 29, 11.55pm (11.25 in SA)
Reviewed by Norm Dixon
This short report, produced for a Utah news program, kicks off a week of programs on SBS that look into racist and far right groups and
By Reihana Mohideen
"If we treated our members the same way that the ACTU treats us, we wouldn't have any members left", commented John Price, federal secretary of the Transport Workers Union, speaking to Green Left Weekly about the union's
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