School bursar dispute continues
By Sue Bull
CANBERRA — Locked-out school bursars met with ACT education minister Bill Stefaniak on August 3 and came away empty handed. Stefaniak maintained he would have a proposal for the Community and Public
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Intimate Union: Sharing a Revolutionary LifeAn autobiography by Tom and Audrey McDonaldPluto Press Australia, 1998 By Melanie Sjoberg
Aspects of many of the dramatic shifts in the world's and Australia's politics and labour movement during the last
Gatton students defend their college
By Robyn Marshall
About 200 students from the agricultural college in the small town of Gatton, about an hour's drive from Brisbane, opposed a University of Queensland administration proposal to close the
The following is abridged from a statement by the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions (ICEM). US trade unionists demonstrated outside Texaco's Washington office on July 30 to protest against labour and human
Thousands of students return to East Timor
By Sam King
DILI — As the massive Indonesian passenger ship the Dobonsolo left Jakarta on July 23, thousands of people filled its seven tiers. Hundreds more set up sleeping places on the open deck.
By John Rainford
Eric Wicker is a longtime trade unionist on the Wollongong waterfront who has been charged with a criminal offence — demanding property with menaces, or, to be blunt, extortion. Eric was the honorary president of the Port Kembla
By Jonathan Singer
Protests called by the ACTU against Reith's "second wave" of anti-union laws ("A Bill to amend the Workplace Relations Act" — WRA) have begun, with rallies in Perth on August 10, Adelaide on August 11 and Melbourne on August
Supermax prisoners win challenge
By Karen Fredericks
BRISBANE — The Queensland Supreme Court ruled on July 28 that the Maximum Security Unit (MSU) at the Woodford Correctional Centre near Brisbane was operated unlawfully for nearly two years.
Frida Kahlo's microscope of the psyche
Frida: A Biography of Frida KahloBy Hayden Herrera Bloomsbury, 1998507 pp, $35.00 (pb) Review by Phil Shannon
As Frida Kahlo was returning home from school one day in 1925 in Mexico City, a tram crashed into
Southern Cross Uni dispute continues
By Nick Fredman
LISMORE — On August 4, staff at Southern Cross University stopped work for the second time since enterprise bargaining negotiations broke down in May. Staff unions and the Student
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