By Bill Mason BRISBANE — The Queensland State Public Services Federation has warned the new National-Liberal Coalition government that the union will not tolerate mass sackings or large-scale restructuring. SPSFQ secretary Gordon Rennie said the
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By Paul Jones BRISBANE — Staff at Royal Brisbane Hospital report that old mercurial thermometers were replaced last week in many wards with digital equipment. This is the first real change in the management's attitude since mercury spillage and
By Jorge Jorquera The Democratic Socialist candidate for the seat of Perth, Anthony Benbow, is a union militant with the Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union. He is currently on the executive of the CEPU Electrical Division WA. Benbow was
By Adam Hanieh ADELAIDE — More than 5000 education workers packed Memorial Drive Tennis court on February 23 in the largest education mass meeting ever held in SA. Members of the South Australian Institute of Teachers (SAIT) overwhelmingly endorsed
By John Baker The 1980s were a time of change and a reaching out for unity on the Australian Left. This often led to strange and tortured alliances and inevitably acrimonious separations, but it also held out great hopes for a resurgence. The period
I have never seen my great-granddaughter, Jasmine. She will be three years old on March 1. The combination of our individual circumstances suggests that we may never see each other. Many are the times that I imagine a casual conversation with her as
By Kim Linden MELBOURNE — Health workers in the recently formed North Eastern Health Care Network have stepped up their industrial campaign against the Kennett government's redeployment and redundancy packages, which began to be introduced on
MARGIE FRIEL, director of the Aboriginal Youth Law Centre at the Northern Territory University, is the architect of the Australian Greens' Aboriginal affairs policy, released in February. Standing in the federal election as the Greens' number one
[The following is the editorial from the February 15 issue of An Phoblacht/Republican News.] What we hoped would be unthinkable when the IRA's historic and generous cessation was announced in August 1994, has come to pass. It took over 17 months of
By Chris Slee Tax Office workers have voted to accept a new agency agreement, replacing the 1990 Modernisation Agreement and the 1994 Agency Agreement. Community and Public Sector Union officials admitted that the new agreement is not a good one, but