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Jobs and services slashed in Tasmanian budget

Jobs and services slashed in Tasmanian budget By Tony Iltis HOBART — Since coming to power, the Rundle Liberal government has overseen the destruction of 10,000 jobs. The state budget handed down on August 14 is set to continue the failed

Student unions and the fight against racism

Comment by Sean Healy There has been considerable debate about how best to combat the ideas of One Nation on campuses. Some have argued that student organisations should declare campuses "Hanson free" and "ban" One Nation from meeting. Others

Herri Batasuna continues the struggle for independence

By Russell Pickering and Nikki Ulasowski BILBAO — In the wake of the Spanish government's offensive against the Basque independence movement, particularly focused on ETA (the armed Basque resistance movement) and the political organisation

Tax Office workers facing sack need support

By Ben Courtice MELBOURNE — Management of the Australian Taxation Office has decided to make compulsorily redundant staff in INB Business Line, where there have not been enough volunteers for the redundancies that management wishes to

'What I really want to do is sing'

Lee Sappho sings the BluesWritten by Robyn Archer and Lee Sappho with Angela ChaplinOuter metropolitan Perth tour, August 26-30South-west WA tour, September 2-6 Review by Anne O'Callaghan Robyn Archer has returned to Deckchair Theatre for

Motion — compulsory retrenchments in Tax

Motion — compulsory retrenchments in Tax This meeting of CPSU members in [insert department name] condemns the moves by ATO management to resort to compulsory retrenchments in the INB Business Line in Sydney and Melbourne Tax Offices when

Left On-line

Left On-line Webgrrls — Webgrrls is a real-world, face-to-face networking group for women in and interested in new media. Chapters are forming around the world to provide a forum for women to exchange information, give leads, learn about new

Victory for Citipower Workers

Victory for Citipower Workers By Sue Bolton MELBOURNE — After 15 weeks on strike defending their jobs, wages and conditions, 140 Citipower workers have won a significant victory. On August 21, the workers marched back to work beneath

Howard blocks heroin trial

Howard blocks heroin trial Dr GABRIELE BAMMER from the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at the Australian National University directed the research which led to the formulation of the ACT heroin trial. The research was

Return of the Uglies

By Norm Dixon An eruption of factional warfare within the NSW Liberal Party has further exposed the influence of its far-right wing. Lyenko Urbanchich, leader of the notorious "Uglies" faction of the 1970s, has re-emerged as an activist of the

Cowrie continues her journey

Cowrie continues her journey The Journey HomeBy Cathie Dunsford — Spinifex Press, 1997. 301 pp., $16.95 (pb) Review by Carla Gorton Cathie Dunsford's second novel, The Journey Home, takes her central character, Cowrie, on a journey which

Write on: Letters to the editor

Fostering illusions Nick Southall (Write On, GLW #286) claims that democratic rights do not exist in (Australian) "capitalist society". But that fact that he can state his political views, and the GLW editors can decide to print them, without