Debate on post-Kernot politics
BRISBANE — Thirty people gathered at the Resistance Centre on October 29 to hear a discussion about how to build a progressive alternative to the two-party system in the wake of Cheryl Kernot's defection to the
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By James Vassilopoulos
Twelve-hour shifts are increasingly being put into new enterprise agreements. Also increasingly common are cuts to penalty rates and the averaging of working hours over a month instead of a week. The five-day, 40-hour
ANC Youth League bids for private prisons
By Norm Dixon
The African National Congress Youth League has put a new spin on the slogan "From the politics of liberation to the politics of reconstruction". According to the November 8
Constitutional Convention
While the left should vote for candidates who stand for progressive changes to the constitution, the coming constitutional convention is no great opportunity to bring about any meaningful change.
Half the delegates
Residents oppose nuclear waste dump
By Tony Iltis
HOBART — Residents of the suburb of New Town have reacted angrily to a state government proposal to store a cubic metre of radioactive waste under St Johns Park, adjacent to a child-care
Ken Saro-Wiwa remembered
By Dr Willie Nwido
Two years ago, on November 10, we were treated to the terrifying shock of the judicial murder of our beloved leader and compatriot Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others. This murder prompted widespread
Feminists discuss how to fight back
By Zanny Begg
BRISBANE — Thirty women attended a meeting of the International Women's Day Collective on November 10 to hear several speakers and to formulate demands for the 1998 IWD rally. Shannon
By Linda Kaucher
President Suharto is refusing to declare West Papua a disaster area despite calls from within his own government to do so. More than 400 people have died from the drought, mainly in the Jayawijaya highlands district, adjacent to
Perth to celebrate 300 issues of GLW
PERTH — Plans are under way to welcome the 300th issue of Green Left Weekly with an all day fiesta on November 29, including a banquet and live music. Mark Abberton, an organiser of the fiesta, said it
Death in custody in private prison
MELBOURNE — George Drinken, a 28-year-old remand prisoner, was found hanged in his cell at Port Philip Prison in the early evening of October 30. The Port Phillip Prison, a 600-cell maximum security and
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