Setback for tax office management
By Ben Courtice
The agreement accepted by executive level two staff in the Australian Taxation Office will not be certified by the Industrial Relations Commission because management made corrections to the
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Canungra protesters on trial
BRISBANE — Protesters arrested last year at the Canungra Land Warfare Centre went on trial at the Brisbane Magistrates Courts on May 12. Sixteen people were arrested for trespass and refusing to obey a lawful
By Arun Pradhan
MELBOURNE — More than 1000 people crammed into Chisolm Hall for the Yellowcake Dance Party on May 9. DJs and performers raised more than $5000 for the Jabiluka Action Fund. Posters for the event highlighted the dangers of uranium
By Sean Martin-Iverson
PERTH — WA's prison system is in crisis. There have already been 10 deaths in custody since the beginning of the year. In 1997, 12 died. Deaths are likely to continue to rise as overcrowding intensifies and funding is
By Norm Dixon
In 1994, the United Nations was warned of the Rwandan Hutu chauvinist government's impending genocide against the Tutsi minority and anti-tribalist Hutus three months before it began in April — yet ordered its "peacekeepers" in the
That's the point
It is right and proper that the PM should advise caution. After all, we don't want a bloodbath on our doorstep. It wouldn't do, would it? Here we are proffering the hand of friendship, with a tidy sum in it, and that Suharto
By James Vassilopoulos
The small funding boost for some health programs in the federal budget will not address the massive cuts that occurred in the Coalition's 1996 budget. Nor will it provide the expansion that is needed in the public health
Musings
By Brandon Astor Jones
"Some say there are nine Muses: but they're wrong. Look at Sappho of Lesbos: she makes ten." — Plato
After Plato, I read Rosanne Bersten's "Male-only space" letter (Green Left Weekly, March 25) in which she
Biology as ideology
"Why is it that wealthy old men seem to attract beautiful young women?", asks well-known Australian scientist and author Paul Davies. He answers: "something deeply biological is involved ... the battle of the sexes is just
South African anti-homosexual laws struck down
The South African High Court in Johannesburg on May 3 declared the common
law crimes of sodomy, unnatural sexual offences and section 20A of the
Sexual Offences Act unconstitutional, legalising
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