Education workers score 'great win'
By Melanie Sjoberg
ADELAIDE â Following recommendations by the Industrial Relations
Commission that the government release funds for extra staffing in schools
and that the Australian Education Union
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Dita Sari rejects bail offer
THE INDONESIAN MEDIA announced on December 13 that Indonesian political prisoner Dita Sari had been offered early bail by the Habibie government. Dita, a labour activist and leader of the People's Democratic Party, was
IWD: 'Women and workers united'
IWD: 'Women and workers united'
By Margarita Windisch
MELBOURNE — The International Women's Day Collective has decided that this year's theme will be "Women and workers of the world united in action". The day's
Lost Civilisations of the Stone AgeBy Richard Rudgley Century Books, 1998$39.95 Review by Robert Hodder
The words "Stone Age" and "civilisation" are rarely seen together in popular history. Richard Rudgley's book sets out to turn our assumptions
US
By Zanny Begg
1. We can understand history
The 10 richest people in the world own more wealth than that produced each year by the whole of sub-Saharan Africa. Facts like these are often presented to us as inexplicable, just part of the ways
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Threat to gay rights in Fiji
SUVA — Right-wing political forces and conservative church groups in Fiji are attempting to reverse a constitutional provision that outlaws discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. A clause in the Bill
Jabiluka campaign gathers pace
By Emma Webb
ADELAIDE — Three anti-uranium activists are facing charges including assaulting a police officer, obstructing arrest and property damage following a December 13 rally and march against the Jabiluka
The killing of Lake Baikal
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — There are not many places in the world where you can leave an industrial plant in operation and doom hundreds of species of plants and animals to extinction. One such place is Siberia's Lake
Australia Day 1999
Sheep shit in the South Pacific. With your baa lambs and your empty sky, you big fella stretched out in sun drying. Sunburnt. Sleepy. Empty. You lucky bastard of a country. You your own planet, your own boss cockie —
By Arrow Tong and Tristan Miller
Young people need a voice. We can't just hang around until we are
18, when we get to vote for the racist policies of Liberal or Labor. That
is why last year Resistance organised the high school walkouts
By Claire Konkes
HOBART — Last November, members of the Antarctica and Southern Ocean Coalition (ASOC), the international environmental lobby group trying to keep fishing "honest" in the southern seas, left Hobart's Wrest Point Casino on a yacht
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