Workers protest student association merger
BY RORY CAMPBELL
GEELONG — Staff at the Geelong Association of Students struck for three days, from July 18-20, in protest at the refusal of the association's board to discuss the impact of a planned
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Write on: Letters to the editor
Germaine Greer
I couldn't agree more with most of Mary Merkenich's article (GLW, July 12) on Germaine Greer's book The Female Eunuch.
When I read it years ago, I was a 47-year-old housewife and was learning what
BY BARBARA WHELAN
PERTH — After months of campaigning by students and staff at Murdoch University here, including a nine-day occupation in May, the university's Senate has backed off from plans to cut courses, imposed in a management drive to
SYRIA: Baath Party renounces socialist agenda
The ruling Syrian Baath Party held its ninth convention on June 17 to appoint Hafez al-Assad's oldest surviving son, Bashar, as its new general secretary, thus paving the way for his official election
INDONESIA: Activists demand an end to corruption
On July 20, huge banners, which dwarfed the activists who daringly scaled the walls of Indonesia's parliament building in Jakarta to hang them, announced the demands of the People's Democratic Party
At least one protester was killed, more than 100 were injured and 57 were arrested when Indonesian security forces attacked an 800-strong protest in South Sumatra on July 20. The detainees were beaten in jail. The action was organised by the National
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