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
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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
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
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
Greens, socialists contest NT election
In the Northern Territory elections on August 30, one Democratic Socialist and two Greens candidates will challenge the Country-Liberal Party's anti-native title and Labor's "law and order" scare campaigns.
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
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
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