By Ben Reid and Jo Williams
Andy Blunden's attempt to justify his selling of the enterprise bargain agreement to NTEU members at Melbourne University (above) evades the real issues. The opposition to the agreement from wide sectors of the union
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By Jennifer Thompson
John Howard has presented his "10-point plan" on native title as a compromise between the demands of the powerful mining and pastoral interests and their representatives, who are demanding that native title be extinguished,
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — You're a worker in an industrial city of provincial Russia, and you haven't been paid in months. You and your family would starve if it weren't for the vegetables you raise in a garden plot on the outskirts of town.
US chemical weapons bill masks nuclear deployment
The US Senate voted on April 17 to impose tough penalties, including death, on anyone dealing with chemical weapons. The Chemical and Biological Weapons Threat Reduction Act 1997 provides
Court rules for East Timorese refugee
By Max Lane
On May 2, the full Federal Court set aside a decision of the Refugee Review Tribunal that East Timorese refugee Jong Kim Koe was not a refugee under the International Refugees Convention.
On April 29, BHP announced that the Newcastle steelworks, the Sydney wire mill and the Geelong rod mill will all close by the end of 1999, resulting in the loss of several thousand jobs. Green Left Weekly's ALEX BAINBRIDGE spoke to GEOFF PAYNE, a
Queensland teachers vote for rolling strikes
By Bill Mason
@box text intro = BRISBANE — Queensland teachers have voted overwhelmingly for a campaign of rolling 24-hour strikes in state schools to demand better pay and to protest the
Crime and punishmentCrime and punishment
By Dave Holmes
Crime, especially violent crime, is a favourite staple of the capitalist media. Murders, assaults, sex crimes, paedophilia, robberies, home invasions, gang violence — they can
Second dispossession
MELBOURNE — Around 500 people attended the 1997 Whitlam Lecture on April 28 to hear Noel Pearson, chairperson of the Cape York Land Council, condemn attacks by the Howard government on native title and the Racial
Greenhouse outlaws
John Howard says Australia cannot afford to cut back on greenhouse gas emissions. He says this country is a "special case" — given our reliance on fossil fuels — and has even countenanced withdrawing from the climate
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