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Cuts may force mergers

Cuts may force mergers A possible merger between Flinders and Adelaide universities is being considered by both vice-chancellors on the grounds that a merged university would be better able to compete against major universities in the eastern

Emergency appeal

Emergency appeal Having seen reports and television coverage of the events of the past weeks in Jakarta, we call on the Indonesian government to: release all people detained following the military assault on the headquarters of the Indonesia

Write on: letters to the editor

Housework and feminism While reading the latest newsletter (#5) of the Australian Women's Party, I was surprised to discover that the first prize in a recent South Australian AWP raffle was to have the winner's house cleaned. It is likely that

Aboriginal rally opposes cuts

By Natalie Zirngast CANBERRA — About 1500 Aborigines and supporters rallied at Parliament House on August 20 to protest government cuts to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC). Several Aboriginal performers were followed

Suharto's prisoners

Suharto's prisoners There are now 20 members of the People's Democratic Party (PRD) in prison, as well as Muchtar Pakpahan from the SBSI union federation and Hendrik Sirait, an activist with PIJAR (Information Centre for Reform and Action). Most

The good news industry

By Peter Montague For the past 25 years, bad news has been reported again and again by the scientific community worldwide. Ozone depletion. Global warming. Certain cancers increasing. Dioxin and PCBs from industrial sources now found everywhere,

Violence and its victims

By Dave Riley The way we are encouraged to view them, our working — and particularly our living environments — are hostile places. While we may view our homes as safety zones, outside the front door is something else again. Even a walk to the

CFMEU maps out fight back strategies

By Mick Barclay and Vannessa Hearman CANBERRA — Some 350 officials, job delegates and rank and file members from around the country attended the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union's (CFMEU) August 17-18 information seminar on the

A warmly human look at family, race and class

Secrets and LiesDirected and written by Mike LeighOpens nationally on September 5Reviewed by Peter Boyle Every family has its secrets and lies, but imagine the shock of Hortense, a young black optometrist, when she discovers that her biological

and ain't i a woman: No return to the bad old '50s

No return to the bad old '50s The abolition of the operational subsidies for centre-based long day care announced in last week's budget is a direct and vicious attack, not just on working mothers, but on the majority of women. Already, parents

Hip high priest of free-funk

Message from HomePharoah SandersVerve through PolygramReviewed by Norm Dixon This album shows Pharoah Sanders — Coltrane's cosmic, Afrocentric fellow traveller — is at 57 as cool and relevant as ever. Message from Home places Sanders squarely in

'If we don't fight, we lose'

The following is abridged from a speech by Tom Hagan on behalf of TAFE Students Against Slave Wages to the August 19 trade union protest in Perth. Hagan is a member of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union and the socialist youth organisation