By Nick Everett
SYDNEY — Around 150 people attended a public meeting on August 22 to launch the Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor (ASIET) activists' conference. The national conference, held at the University of Technology,
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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
Brazil privatises oil production
On August 6 Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso signed the Petroleum Law, privatising the country's lucrative oil industry.
The law ends the monopoly of the state-owned Petrobras over oil
By Tony Iltis
HOBART — The state Rundle Liberal government has announced plans for a November 29 referendum on parliamentary change. The referendum would ask two questions: whether to reduce Tasmania's parliamentarians from 54 to 40, and, if
Who Cares? Guilt, hope and the child-care debateBy Sally LoaneReed Books, 1997. 359pp., $15.95 (pb) Review by Pip Hinman
Who Cares? provides valuable information about the evolution of professional child-care in Australia, including the impact
'... shake your hand'
By Brandon Astor Jones
According to page 5 of the Cobb County Sheriff's Office Adult Detention Facility, Inmate Handbook, "Except for legal and media mail ... [a]ll outgoing mail must be unsealed'", so I will
Festival Records dispute ends
SYDNEY — After 12 weeks on the picket line, workers at Festival Records have won a better redundancy package. Fifty members of the National Union of Workers at the Pyrmont plant were sacked on May 12.
The
At the Network of Women Students Australia conference in July, GEMMA PINNEL, the National Union of Students' national women's officer, and SARAH LANTZ, research officer at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, spoke about the role of women's
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
LibertariasDirected by Vincente ArandaDendy Films Review by Marina Cameron
Libertarias is a fantastic and inspiring look at the Spanish Civil War through the eyes of a group of women who fight to play their part in the struggle for
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