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Cuba, culture and compassion iew from a Wooden ChairJumping FencesThrough Grevillea Records Review by Lynda Hansen After meeting with local Latin American musicians in 1979, Sue Monk and Lauchlin Hurse from the duo Jumping Fences developed a keen
By Jeremy Smith MELBOURNE — In a move designed to provoke industrial action, management at Monash University cancelled all negotiations over enterprise bargaining at the end of February. National Tertiary, Education and Industry Union (NTEU)
Kindly accept my congratulations on such an excellent and long awaited source of true Labor information. I was surprised to note that the copy of Green Left Weekly which I purchased as I entered the public protest against the Multilateral Agreement
By Allen Myers The real unemployment rate in Australia is probably more than double the official rate of 8.1%, according to figures from an Australian Bureau of Statistics study announced on March 9. The survey "Persons Not in the Labour Force",
Criminal justice activists conference By Karen Fletcher The 2nd annual conference of community justice activists — Law and Order: Whose agenda is it anyway? — will be held in Brisbane, March 26-28. The conference will bring together activists
Revenge on a coconut By Brandon Astor Jones "I have had a 'call' to literature, of a low order — i.e. humorous. It is nothing to be proud of, but it is my strongest suit ... seriously scribbling to excite the laughter of God's creatures."
Ska: the pulse that doesn't die Foundation SkaThe SkatalitesHeartbeat/Rounder through Festival Review by Norm Dixon Viewers of late night music television will have noticed a revival of the unmistakable "ba-ba-ba" ska pulse in some of the clips
Labor's newest star By Sam King ADELAIDE — "Come and hear Labor's newest star" said the posters to advertise Cheryl Kernot's March 10 visit to Flinders University, and come they did — around 500 people turned out to hear what Kernot had to
By Sean Healy SYDNEY — The Daily Telegraph runs headlines about "Sydney's streets of fear", with half-page photos of 25 cm knives; Today Tonight runs a two-part "exposé" on a western suburbs youth "gang"; the police union clamours for the
Howard's plan to trash environmental laws By Francesca Davis The federal Coalition government is proposing to "simplify" environment laws. The plan signals the biggest winding back of environment legislation since the commonwealth first passed
By Nikki Ulasowski and Amanda Lawrence CANBERRA— Following the charging of two Perth doctors and calls by feminists for the repeal of all abortion laws, ACT Pro-Choice has been formed in Canberra. The group hopes to build on the work of former
We seem to be approaching that time in politics when any and every fantasy, half-truth and "core promise" will be peddled by politicians in order to win our support at the polls. Labor and Liberal will use every trick they know to try to prove how