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By Jennifer Thompson It's been three months since the Liberals' workplace relations bill was passed into law with the support of the Democrats. MAX ADLAM, women's officer of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union South Australian branch and
Manifestations — a year in the life of the TarkineAvailable from Kaganovich Productions, PO Box 83, Paddington NSW 2021 and the Wilderness Shop, Salamanca Place, Hobart$25 Review by Joel Wilson In 1995, the Tasmanian government bulldozed a road
Is racism 'un-Australian?' By Pat Brewer CANBERRA — Around 200 people attended a two-day "Is racism 'un-Australian'?" conference here on February 21-22. The conference, jointly organised by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres
One year too many Sunday, as we have all been repeatedly reminded, was the first anniversary of the election of the Howard government. For big business and its media, it was an occasion for taking stock of what the government has "achieved", and
By John Fraser In the forests of Goolengook in East Gippsland, there are places where the understorey is so thick that it can take half a day to walk a kilometre; whole valleys of tree ferns, where the smallest is over 10 metres tall; trees so big
Melbourne rally for parks By Saul Fischart MELBOURNE — Three thousand people gathered on February 23 to express their anger at the state government's environmental vandalism. The rally was called by Hands Off Our Parks, a coalition of more than
Korean workers prepare to strike By James Vassilopoulos SYDNEY — The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions is launching another general strike, according to Jongsoae Oh, a leading member of the KCTU. Oh told a public meeting held on February 25
South Africa bans landmines @box text intro = South Africa has banned the use, storage, manufacture and development of all landmines. Defence minister Joe Modise told a media briefing on February 20 that landmines would no longer be part of South
By Sonny Melencio MANILA — Workers at Telefunken Microelectronics Philippines (Temic) started to stage their own version of "people power" during the four-day anniversary of the EDSA revolution from February 22. The EDSA revolution is the popular
Pearson blasts Borbidge's anti-Wik campaign By Bill Mason BRISBANE — In the March 1 Courier-Mail, Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson explains that the Queensland government is mounting a concerted effort to create popular opposition to the High
O-weeks a great success for Resistance By Sean Healy Over the last fortnight, Resistance has joined more than 370 people at university "orientation weeks" around the country. The Resistance club at the University of Sydney joined 100 people.
West Papuans in mercenaries' sights? @box text intro = PNG Prime Minister Chan has hinted that mercenaries may also be deployed against Free West Papua (OPM) rebels fighting Indonesian occupation of West Papua (Irian Jaya). Speaking at a press