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
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Union campaign forces school cleaning review
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — A concerted campaign by Queensland school cleaners has forced the Education Department to review privatisation plans which would lay off 6500 permanent and casual workers.
The oil crunch: coming sooner than you think
By Ted Trainer
The leading energy research organisation Petroconsultants has issued new estimates of remaining world oil supplies. It comes to more disturbing conclusions than previous reports, finding
By Pip Hinman
Welfare rights groups have criticised the budget, saying that more than 30% of the expenditure cuts unfairly target people on low incomes. Michael Raper, director of the NSW Welfare Rights Centre, described the new social security
Indigenous resistance rally
By Jonathan Strauss
SYDNEY — A quickly organised Indigenous Resistance Rally attracted more than 1000 people to Hyde Park on August 18. The rally called for a strong and unified stand against the Howard government's
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
By Natasha Simons
High school student groups and Resistance in all states except Tasmania are stepping up preparations this week for a national high school strike. The strike will be held on August 29 so that high school students can join the
'Tricontinental' needs help
Tricontinental magazine, put out by the African, Asian and Latin American Peoples' Solidarity Organisation (OSPAAAL), is being revived. The magazine was an idea proposed by Che Guevara for the movements in those three
Wings of Death: Nuclear Pollution and Human HealthBy Chris BusbyGreen Audit Books, Green Audit (Wales) Ltd, 1995340pp., £10.99Reviewed by Dot Tumney This book provides valuable ammunition for attacking the nuclear apologist on several fronts.
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,
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