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By Norm Dixon Nurses from five major hospitals and 14 clinics in and around Johannesburg have agreed to suspend their militant strike action. Nurses at Soweto's Baragwanath Hospital — South Africa's largest — led a walkout on September 4
By Melanie Sjoberg ADELAIDE — More than 1000 school service officers (SSOs), teachers, parents and supporters rallied at Parliament House steps on September 21 in an ongoing campaign to save 500 SSO positions destined to be cut in 1996.
Based on highly reliable international contacts, leaked documents and horoscopes from several TV magazines, Nostradamus' Media Watch presents a highly accurate forecast of political events across the globe. Helen Darville-Demidenko identity
By Rob Heller MELBOURNE — A CES service was closed here last week in the midst of a national industrial dispute between Community and Public Sector Union members and the federal Department of Employment, Education and Training over staff cuts.
Anna Booth, former joint national secretary of the Textile Clothing and Footwear Union and honorary ACTU vice president has completed her move out of the union movement and into the private sector — to become the new vice president of the Sydney
John Percy For years they've been telling us we live in the Lucky Country. It's now official. Each Australian — man, woman, child — is now worth $1.1 million, according to the World Bank. Its recent study estimating the wealth of 192
By John Percy Seventy-five years ago, under the impact and inspiration of the October 1917 Russian Revolution, the Communist Party of Australia was founded. It was a modest beginning, but an historic event. The CPA formed in 1920 finally
Iain Stewart Public subsidy for private profit MELBOURNE — The cost of staging a Formula One Grand Prix is substantial and is increased when the event is staged at a temporary circuit such as Albert Park. In addition to capital outlay on the
By John Martinkus and Daniel Pedersen EAST TIMOR — When five shots penetrated the body of the commandant of subdistrict Vermasse as he was on his way to work on July 27, it triggered — by afternoon — a violent and repressive response from
By Max Watts SYDNEY — Janet Sheila Wakefield, a communist, was born in Patras, Greece, in 1915 and died in Sydney on September 18. Her family moved to New Zealand in 1925. In 1936, Janet came to Australia. Ten years ago, when I first met
By Norm Dixon Gabriel Tetiarahi, leader of Tahiti's umbrella NGO organisation Hiti Tau, fears that he will be arrested by French colonial authorities when returns to Papeete after a brief visit to Australia. Tetiarahi's fears are well founded.
By Eva Cheng Seven former sex slaves and other victims of Japanese atrocities in China were recounting their wartime plight to reporters during a press conference in Hepingli Hotel in Beijing on August 7 when the police broke in. The meeting was