Industrial dispute at Viking
By Nick Markin
SYDNEY — Workers at Viking Office Products in Rydalmere have faced harassment and intimidation in their attempts to remove an unsafe work practice which leads to back injuries. Members of the National
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How to plug the real black holes
By Dick Nichols
The following measures, which would fall most on those most able to bear them, would readily rake in funds needed to fund public health care, education and other welfare spending:
Lifting the
Activists distributing Green Left Weekly sometimes get accused of being engaged in "brainwashing" — of trying, in the act of selling the paper, to "impose" the ideas it contains on other people.
What seems to be forgotten in this accusation is
By Marina Cameron
Despite appeals from big business for Australian government to look across the Tasman at the New Zealand example, the reality is that tax "reform" there has led to an increase in social inequality and yielded no significant
Two more PRD activist to go on trial
By James Balowski
On February 4, the Jakarta daily Kompas reported that the trials of People's Democratic Party activists I Gusti Anom Astika and Wilson bin Nurtias have begun. Twelve PRD members are now being
Chiapas
Peter Gellert's article (GLW #260) on recent events in Chiapas focused on the "two texts" and the differences between them. This may have given some readers the impression that the president's "counter proposal" was a legitimate response to
By Jennifer Thompson and James Vassilopoulos
What do Graeme Samuel, president of the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI), the Young Liberals and Jeff Kennett all have in common? Well, if you believe the establishment press, they are
Strong lyric style
Yes Sir, No Sir3 Bags FullOracle Records, 1996 Review by Stuart Martin
Having heard the band live at the Invasion Day rally at the Aboriginal tent embassy on the lawns of Old Parliament House in Canberra, I looked forward to
Indonesian activist addresses meetings
By Bernard Wunsch
BRISBANE — Robby Hartono, a pro-democracy and labour activist with the PRD (People's Democratic Party) in Indonesia, addressed several meetings in Brisbane last week. In a four-day tour,
SYDNEY — On February 3, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission announced that it would contribute $6 million to "alleviating the social and environmental problems of Sydneys Redfern Aboriginal Community" by funding a proposal for
The Woman I'll Be
puts her hair up with a comb
of absolute zero, fastens
it with a pack of hounds
until it forms a straight peak,
utters words like a species
of pepper, and has a blemish
on her tongue, is certain
she is not asleep,
By Kerry Vernon
BRISBANE — The Queensland Anti-discrimination Tribunal ruled on January 31 that the medical group QFG had discriminated both directly and indirectly against a lesbian when it refused her access to artificial insemination through a
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