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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Life's Grandeur: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to DarwinBy Stephen Jay GouldJonathon Cape, 1996. 244 pp., $39.95 (hb) Review by Phil Shannon
It pays to know your maths. In 1982, Stephen Jay Gould was diagnosed as suffering from abdominal
By Kerryn Williams and Nadeem Ansari
CANBERRA — An Amnesty International forum on February 4, the 49th anniversary of Sri Lankan independence, heard a Catholic priest, Dr Edwin Savundranayagum, describe the massive human rights violations against
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 Jeremy Smith
The National Tertiary Education and Industry Union national council in October launched a campaign around three claims: a 15% pay rise, retention of positive aspects of the award and past enterprise bargaining agreements, and
Activists promote unity in Redfern
By Andrew Gianniotis
SYDNEY — Establishment newspapers say the Aboriginal community in Redfern is divided and that the area is experiencing a "crime spree". Is this true? Resistance activists decided to see
@columhead = No-one told us before
"Police often have very difficult decisions to make in the course of their work, and a code which gives them practicable and sensible guidelines will be very helpful." — Phil Tunchon, president of the NSW Police
Werribee residents oppose toxic dump
By Ian Haywood
MELBOURNE — A strong community campaign has arisen in Werribee, a town just west of Melbourne, in response to a planned toxic dump on the town's outskirts. The site is an exhausted quarry
Doctors to stop work
Doctors will hold stop-work meetings across NSW on the February 11 to discuss a motion for an ongoing campaign against the government's restriction of Medicare provider numbers. The main proposal to be considered will be an
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,
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