Macquarie workers strike for equal pay
By Lachlan Malloch
SYDNEY — Food and beverage workers at Macquarie University Union voted unanimously to strike on the afternoon of September 8. They were demanding an end to inequality. Presently,
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Dangerous LiasiansDownstairs Theatre, Belvoir StreetSeptember 18-20 and 25-27Bookings 9699 3444 Review by Suneeta Peres da Costa
A cabaret as anti-racist polemic? The work of the ensemble in Dangerous Liasians, performed as part of the fifth
By Al McCall
BRISBANE — The Satire Workshop has been making headway. Originally foundered as a pilot project to disseminate and promote political satire throughout Australia, the workshop has met with a ready response, as much overseas as
The scourge of Labor nationalism
By Iggy Kim
One key reason that the Hanson and Howard show has hit high ratings is its deep connection to the history of capitalist Australia. Hanson's rhetoric invokes an ideology and tradition that
In brief
By Barry Healy
BP backs off
Energy conglomerate British Petroleum has backed off from legal attempts to seize the bank accounts of UK Greenpeace. On August 21, BP dropped court actions against Greenpeace for its campaign
NY police torture immigrant
By Barry Sheppard
In the early morning hours of August 10, a Haitian immigrant in New York, Abner Louima, was outside a nightclub in a largely black and immigrant section of Brooklyn after a party. As the
'Educational elitism' in the Philippines
By Lachlan Malloch
SYDNEY = Arnel Casanova spoke on the struggle against privatisation of education in the Philippines at Macquarie University on September 11. Casanova is a left-wing member of the
Correction
The article "Hinchinbrook campaign in court and on the water" in GLW #289 said that land purchased by Williams' Cardwell Developments was granted development approval by Cardwell Shire Council in 1995. This approval was granted in
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Access News — Melbourne
By Marina Cameron
The Australian Council of Social Services, Australian Youth Policy and Action Coalition, National Youth Coalition for Housing, Brotherhood of St Laurence, Catholic Social Welfare Commission, other welfare rights groups and the
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