By Eva Cheng
Despite Beijing's repressive rule, pockets of small protests persist across China. In recent years, the number of such protests have risen sharply in reaction to mass sackings, rampant corruption by Chinese Communist Party officials
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By Melanie Sjoberg
I have a longstanding argument with one of my brothers about the incidence of workplace injury. He counters my emphasis on the outrageous statistics of workplace deaths with the notion that if it was really as bad as I claim,
Review by Phil Shannon
Rebecca West: A LifeBy Victoria GlendinningPhoenix, 1998288 pp., $19.95 (pb) Cicely Fairfield was not one to blindly accept the wisdom of her elders. Despite her father's view that the women campaigning for the vote in 1906
CFMEU organiser jailed
PERTH — On November 4, Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union state assistant secretary Joe McDonald was arrested for trespass at Woodside Petroleum's project in North Fremantle.
McDonald was refused entry to the
By William Thomas
HOBART — About 200 people attended a November 14 rally outside parliament to protest against the presence of the US nuclear aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln, visiting Hobart on its way back from the Persian Gulf. The rally was
Jam packed with funny poems
0 Funny Little PoemsBy Denis KevansLorikeet Publications, 199863 Valley Rd, Wentworth Falls 2782Phone (02) 4757 3119 Review by Alex Bainbridge
This book is exactly what it claims to be — jam packed with funny little
By Margaret Allum
Figures released in November by the NSW Department of Corrective Services reveal that the number of Aboriginal people imprisoned in the state has increased dramatically during the last 10 years. Aboriginal prisoners were 8.5% of
Queensland native title law passed
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — The state Labor government's native title legislation was passed by the Queensland parliament on November 11, granting most of the mining and pastoral industries' demands. The law
Eric Wicker defended
WOLLONGONG — Supporters of Eric Wicker, the Port Kembla unionist charged with extortion, gathered outside the Wollongong courthouse on November 9 to support Wicker in his struggle for justice.
The case was postponed
Activists discuss the future of unions
By Ben Reid
MELBOURNE — The re-election of the Howard government threatens to bring in a new period of extensive attacks on workers' rights and trade unions. Seventy people attended a seminar, organised by