More than 15,000 people participated in the founding of the new Freedom and Solidarity Party (ODP) in Turkey on January 22. Ertugrul Kurkcu, a founding member of this party, recently visited Australia. He was interviewed for Green Left Weekly by Arty
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By Nick Fredman
SYDNEY — NSW teachers will stop work for two days on June 2021 if the Department of School Education and TAFE do not agree to their demand for a 12% pay rise with no trade-offs. Teachers from government schools in the metropolitan
New unpublished US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data documents that US pesticide use reached an all-time high of 567 million kilograms in 1995. This is over twice as much chemicals as were used 30 years ago when Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
Homophobia and the royal commission?
In Tom Wilson's article "NSW gays oppose witch hunt", GLW, June 5, there is a major inaccuracy and presumption of a supposed homogeneity of gay and lesbian opinion about the Royal Commission and its supposed
While fashion designers are demanding size 8 models for the catwalk and Juice magazine promotes "fashion to die for", is it any surprise that eating disorders are on the increase? On June 4, the NSW Health Department released a report stating that
By Emma Webb
ADELAIDE — The South Australian Education Network (SAEN), the National Tertiary Education and Industry Union (NTEU), the Public Service Association (PSA) and other unions have united to organise a worker and student mass meeting and
By Ben Courtice
HOBART — Despite forcing the state government to the negotiating table on June 7, the Health and Community Services Union (HACSU) has been unable to win any government concessions on their wage claim for public sector health
A visit to death row
By Glenys Alderton
[Brandon Astor Jones' regular column has apparently been delayed in the post. In its place, we print this account of a visit to him last December.]
It is Christmas Day, and I am sitting on a small, hard
Protests follow killing of East Timorese youth
By Edmund Thompson
East Timorese youths and their supporters in Jakarta have organised protests following the killing of an East Timorese youth, Manuel Soares, on June 7. Soares, 25, had moved to
A Law for Women: Domestic Violence — A series of programs that highlights the limitations and problems of the legal system as it relates to women. This episode looks at the violence experienced by women and explains how women can apply for an
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