Governed and policed by hypocrites
"I did not choose to teach, just as one does not choose to minister or to build. A teacher is, simply, what I've always been." — Sherry Hearn
In my opinion, teaching is one of the most worthwhile professions
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Gaining access to education is one of the cornerstones of achieving women's liberation. Currently women make up over half the students in Australian tertiary institutions. This has led Ian Dobson, a senior academic at Monash University, to argue that
By Alana Kerr
The proposals in the National Commission of Audit that Commonwealth funding of higher education be replaced by a system of "scholarships", student fees and loans sounds very familiar to those who campaigned against the Coalition's
By Nico Warouw
On July 26, almost 200 Indonesians living in Sydney attended a public meeting in Marrickville organised by a newly formed organisation, Forum Solidaritas Australia Indonesia (FSAI, Indonesia-Australia Solidarity Forum). Speakers
By Jennifer Thompson
The Turkish government has begun a brutal attack on legal left and Kurdish parties as pressure mounts on its military over its dirty war in Kurdistan. The Kurdish People's Democracy Party (HADEP), Labour Party (EP) and Liberty
On June 27, Canberra CPSU members in the Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs (DEETYA) called on the ACTU to organise a 24-hour strike on August 19 to coincide with its "Cavalcade to Canberra" day of action against Howard's
SYDNEY — "The media release from the Institute of Criminology (ACT), along with the media release from Amnesty International (London), echoes the many statements made by the Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Watch Committee and other Aboriginal
By Lisa Macdonald
On June 21 Greenpeace released Dioxin Factories, the first major report documenting dioxin pollution in Australia, and called on the federal government to legislate immediately for a national pollutant inventory. The establishment
Because so many contributors and sellers of Green Left Weekly will be going to Melbourne for the Resistance National Conference July 5-7, we are skipping an issue. The next Green Left will be dated July 17.
Catfish Culture — Sarah White has deheaded, gutted, skinned and filleted countless catfish at Delta Pride, the largest catfish processing plant in the world. She also led a 1990 strike at the plant, the largest strike by African-American workers
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