Women unionists support Indonesia campaign
By Melanie Sjoberg
ADELAIDE — The "Free Dita Sari" campaign has obtained the support of a group of women trade unionists who met on November 4. The group includes representatives of the Community and
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Indonesians under the bed
The Australian Candidate Study (conducted by academics at the ANU, UNSW and UQ), which surveyed 435 Coalition, Labor, Democrat and Green candidates in the last federal election (including 105 who now have seats in
By Peter Montague
A lengthy new report from the US National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences [NIEHS] describes serious deterioration of the male reproductive system in many regions of the world and suggests it may be caused by
Adam Burling
Boral is the second largest hardwood eucalypt woodchip exporter in the world, exporting 859,000 tonnes per annum from Tasmania and licensed to export up to 453,600 tonnes from NSW. In NSW, Boral owns 60% of timber concessions, 75% in
By Lara Pullin
The 1996-97 ACT budget launched a new Liberal government program to move people out of secure and affordable public housing and into the private home-buyers market. The "Kickstart" program is the result of the suspension of the ACT
The defeat of the Bill Ethel leadership in the elections of the Western Australian branch of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union is a blow to the already too small left wing in the union officialdom. The prize goes to the Labor Party,
By Eva Cheng
On November 4, president of the "illegal" Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, Kwon Young-kil, began an indefinite hunger strike in protest at recent manoeuvres by the government and employer groups to finalise a year-long industrial
Racism and the Melbourne Cup
By Jorge Andres
Australian history likes to recall its underdogs and battlers. Everyone seems to recall the game that Collingwood won against all odds, the horse that came from nowhere and the painter on the Harbour
By Dave Abbott
A strategy to defeat Howard must involve as wide as possible an alliance of paid and unpaid workers, unions, community groups, academics, and others. The Senate can do little more than temper the extremes of Coalition ideology. The
Rebels Against the Future: The Luddites and their War on the Industrial RevolutionBy Kirkpatrick SaleQuartet, 1996. 320 pp., $21.95 (pb)Reviewed by Phil Shannon "Luddite" is used these days to deride anyone who resists the march of technology. Those
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