Health workers continue industrial action
By Seetal Dodd and Kim Linden
MELBOURNE — In response to a 14% pay claim by Victorian health workers, now in their second week of industrial action, the Kennett government has offered
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@9point = Sunday Concert: Miriam Makeba — Makeba was in Australia in June for the first time in more than 10 years. Her concerts throughout the country were standing room only. She returned to her native South Africa in 1991 after 30 years exile.
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Consultation by Zapatistas
The Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Committee — General Command of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) on June 8 called for a national and international consultation around five questions
By Ray Fulcher
MELBOURNE — An internal struggle in the International Socialist Organisation (ISO) culminated last week in a wholesale purge by the ISO National Committee of its Melbourne branch.
The expelled were members of an
By Pip Hinman
The final phase of the $64 million Kangaroo '95, "the greatest show in town", as Royal Australian Navy Captain and chief controller of Kangaroo '95 Jim Gault put it, has begun in the north of Australia. The military exercise
In good conscience
By Brandon Astor Jones
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Israeli peace movement material published
By Jennifer Thompson
Sydney's Australian-Jewish peace group, Shalom-Salaam, has returned to action, as the Israeli government blocks implementation of the peace accords with the PLO.
Kurds on hunger strike
By Susan Phillips
MELBOURNE — Thirteen members of the Kurdish community have been on hunger strike here since August 1, to protest against the genocidal policies of the Turkish government in Kurdistan.
Cat's eye view of love
Seven Acts of Love (As Witnessed by a Cat)
Opening at Budinski's Theatre of Exile, Melbourne, August 9
Previewed by Bronwen Beechey
"I like to think that good theatre should operate as a kind of
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