By Toni Stevens
MELBOURNE — Student union leaders at Chisholm TAFE are optimistic about maintaining student control of the fledgling Chisholm Association of TAFE Students (CATS) after a recent occupation of the administration office at the
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Solidarity from AMWU workers for East Timor and Indonesia
By Sarah Lantz
MELBOURNE — East Timorese independence activists Alex Tilman and Gil Santos from Fretilin and Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor (ASIET) member Bronwyn
Anti-GST rallies around the country
Thirty people attended an anti-GST rally organised by the Greens at parliament in Canberra on June 21, Karen Burns reports. Several speakers addressed them on the GST's impact. Greens Senator Bob Brown said that
Road to destroy coastal wetlands
By Peter McCallum
MACKAY — The Queensland government seems set to push ahead with a major new road in Mackay that will destroy 12.3 hectares of coastal wetlands, despite Environment Protection Agency (EPA)
Wiranto: 'No gatherings of the masses!'
By Max Lane
On June 25, the Jakarta daily newspaper Kompas quoted the
minister of defence and commander in chief of the armed forces (TNI), General
Wiranto, as stating that the government would
By Graham Jenkin
On February 18, a young substitute teacher from Columbus, Ohio, faced off with one of the most powerful people in the world. Dressed neatly in a white shirt and tie, Jon Strange was given the freak opportunity of putting a question
Dirty Dozen pesticides: banned but still traded
A review of recent US exports of the Pesticide Action Network's "Dirty Dozen" pesticides indicates that a national ban is not sufficient to prevent a pesticide from entering a country. According to US
By David Gosling
CANBERRA — More than 900 staff at the Australian National University voted overwhelmingly on June 24 to demand an enterprise bargaining agreement that guarantees no net job losses, maintenance of superannuation contributions and
A conflict created by chauvinist intellectuals
Kosovo: A Short HistoryBy Noel MalcolmPaperMac, 1998 Review by Michael Cooke
This book provides historical background to current events in the Balkans. Malcolm's work is even-handed, judicious and
... and ain't I a woman?: Labor without a clue
Reading Martin Ferguson's preface to Labor Without Class: The Gentrification of the ALP by Michael Thompson, the latest offering to emerge from the "what is the true nature of the Labor Party"
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