By James Smith
The Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) on July 15 called on the federal government to "think again" on its proposed second wave workplace relations laws. The CPSU is concerned that a new round of award stripping and moves to
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By Chris Slee
MELBOURNE — About 70 people filled Comrades Bar on July 28 to discuss opposing industrial relations minister Peter Reith's "second wave" anti-union legislation. At the monthly Politics in the Pub, organised by Green Left Weekly,
Labor with the wrong class
Labor Without Class: The Gentrification of the ALPBy Michael ThompsonPluto Press, 1999118pp, $20 (pb) Review by Sue Boland
The Labor Party lost government at the 1996 federal election when a substantial number of
Keeping Marley's spirit alive
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Review by Norm Dixon
By Bea Brear
SYDNEY — The NSW Labor government has announced significant changes to the state's drug policies in the wake of the Drug Summit. The new measures are in line with a number of the recommendations of the summit, including a focus on
The pace of corporate concentration within the "life industry" is accelerating, according to a report by the United States-based Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI). "Life industry" is a term used by the giant transnational enterprises
By Troy Dunn
ADELAIDE — Queer Collaborations (QC), the annual gathering of transgender, lesbian, bisexual and gay student activists, converged at Flinders University July 5-10. It was attended by 270 people from a broad range of backgrounds. A
By Jonathan Singer
In 1969, hundreds of thousands of Australian workers struck in opposition to the penal sanctions in laws against unions taking industrial action and in defence of Clarrie O'Shea, a union official fined and jailed under these
Let's hear it for fart jokes
I shared a page in last week's Green Left Weekly with a review composed by the regular GLW scribe, Jim Green. Indeed, his and my efforts for that edition settled on the page column to column — he was allocated
By Jim Green
Splits are emerging within the German Greens since NATO's bombing of Serbia ended. The Greens became the minor partner in a coalition government with the Social Democrats in October. In February, Martin Hufner, chief economist with
MELBOURNE — More than 600 women gathered here for the Network of Women Students Australia (NOWSA) conference on July 16-20. NOWSA is the largest national gathering of student feminists in Australia. As such, it is an important forum for discussing how to rebuild the women's liberation movement.
This year's conference included many constructive debates on topics such as abortion rights, prostitution and issues for working women.
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