By Sean Healy
MELBOURNE — Attended by more than 100 people from across Australia, a national education conference, organised jointly by the Student Unionism Network and the National Union of Students, was held here on November 29-30. In addition
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NSW fires a warning of global warming
By Susan Laszlo
The Australian Conservation Foundation claims that the devastating fires in NSW provide a salutary lesson about the potential future impacts of global warming in Australia. According to ACF
Israeli workers strike 'until further notice'
Some 700,000 Israeli workers walked off the job on December 3 in a general strike that will continue "until further notice". Among the wide range of sectors hit by the strike are oil refineries, gas
By Tom Flanagan
DARWIN — Aboriginal traditional owners are blocking a key aspect of the plan to mine uranium at Jabiluka. They are using the limited legal rights they now have to refuse to consent to the milling of Jabiluka uranium ore at the
By Norm Dixon
Pauline Hanson's One Nation party is being purged of members of Graeme Campbell's Australia First party and supporters of the Australian League of Rights. Hanson's minders claim that Campbell supporters have attempted to take over One
Concert for miners' struggles
By Paul Oboohov
CANBERRA — The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union held a fundraising concert here on November 29 for the Hunter Valley No. 1 and Gordonstone miners. The miners are in bitter struggles
Yes to land rights! No to uranium mining!
Radical documentary film maker DAVID BRADBURY has produced and directed an illuminating new film called Jabiluka. Renowned for Frontline, Nicaragua: No Pasaran and Chile: Hasta Cuando, Bradbury in his
SA government gives uranium company power over Aboriginal sites
By Susan Laszlo
The South Australian government is trying to push through a bill which would give the biggest uranium producer in the state, Western Mining Corporation, control over
Disconsolate
Ascending the skyscrapersin the top end of townto offices where each daythe monopoly deeds are done.Where dwells the state's powerto plan, punish, pollute and persecutemaking misery global.
Here the compliant take their orders,push
Mitcham by-election
By John Nebauer
MELBOURNE — Victorian premier Jeff Kennett faces a tough test in the marginal seat of Mitcham on December 13. The by-election was forced by former Liberal minister Roger Pescott's resignation in protest
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