Dispute in Victorian hospitals escalates
By Gabrielle Wheeler
MELBOURNE — Health professionals in Victoria are turning to militant action in response to the refusal of hospital managements and the state government to enter into any real
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By Eva Cheng
Jiang Zemin appears to be the most powerful man in China today. He heads the state, the ruling Communist Party and the army. At the 15th CP congress, he managed to remove from power political rivals Qiao Shi (from the Politburo
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Anyone who follows western media reports on Russia will know the formula: the country's chances of economic recovery rest on the "young reformers", brought into top government posts early this year to battle
Action updates
Tax Pickets
Community and Public Sector Union members in the Tax Office have completed a second round of part-day stoppages in protest at management's plans for compulsory redundancies.
The strikes occurred between
Comment by James Vassilopoulos
Thirty-seven thousand full-time jobs were lost in August, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, while the unemployment rate was unchanged at 8.7%. A 35-hour working week, with no decrease in pay,
At press conferences in New York and London in September, Greenpeace revealed that it had found significant levels of hazardous chemicals in soft PVC toys and warned parents and consumers to avoid buying them. Greenpeace Australia has called on the
In power to plunder
PM John Howard's removal of John Sharp, David Jull and Peter McGauran from his front bench was widely applauded by the big business media on the grounds that we can't have a government tainted by any suggestion that its
Comment by Liam Mitchell
The uses of unleaded petrol (ULP) and catalytic converters in post-1986 cars raise many questions. Kirk, McCabe, Hoyer and Bain (Write on, GLW #286) ask why oil companies keep information on the health effects of ULP
By Pat Brewer
CANBERRA — A public meeting organised by the Greens on September 23 highlighted the Pilgrimage Project to stop uranium mining and nuclear power. The meeting of around 80 was chaired by former senator Jo Vallentine. It heard about
By Jim Green
The September 3 announcement of a decision to build a new reactor at Lucas Heights, in southern Sydney, was accompanied by a lot of rhetoric about "saving lives with nuclear medicine". However, cracks are beginning to appear in the
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