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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
A Woman AloneWritten by Dario Fo and Franca RamePerformed by Maxine GarnseyDirected by Anne O'CallaghanHayman Theatre, Curtin University, WAUntil August 31 Reviewed by Mary Little A Woman Alone is consistent with the strong tradition of
Bathurst snubs Hanson By Emma Nicholson BATHURST — A tour by Pauline Hanson of NSW's central western region has been met by anti-racist demonstrations. The largest of these was here on August 19, when some 1000 Charles Sturt University
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,
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

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