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Clarence River lucky to escape ecological disaster

BY BERNIE WUNSCH LISMORE — Recent heavy rainfall on New South Wales' north coast resulted in the flooding of the region. Lismore, Moree, Grafton and Coraki were under a metre of water. While the floods produced minor damage — and some fun for

Women and globalisation

By Rachel Evans If the status of women marks the success of a society, then global capitalism is clearly failing the grade. Women have always been capitalism's second sex, and globalisation has made conditions for women worse. Globalisation is

PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Anger at government's pay hypocrisy

BY NORM DIXON Workers in Papua New Guinea have threatened to take action to have an increase in the minimum wage restored after it was revealed that members of parliament, ministers, judges and top public servants were secretly awarded massive pay

News briefs

BHP fire crew strike WOLLONGONG — Eighty Port Kembla fire, ambulance and security workers at BHP's Port Kembla mill went on strike for 24 hours on February 12, forcing the company to stand down 2000 steelworkers whose safety could not be

Illawarra TAFE staff picket institute

BY CHRISTOPHER PERKINS WOLLONGONG — TAFE teachers set up a picket line outside Shellharbour TAFE College on February 15 to protest management's decision to close the innovative Engineering Flexible Training Centre. The teachers have vowed it will

Activist's home invaded

BY JOHN McGILL ADELAIDE — The home of Sandra Saunders, Aboriginal activist and former director of the Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement, was raided by court officers on February 13. They were searching for notes and other material relating to a

Feminism and socialism

By Lauren Carroll Harris Everyday, women are oppressed by capitalist society's ideal of "beauty" and are told that what we look like is more important than what we think. Meanwhile, millions of migrant women work in sweatshops, "honour" killings

LIBYA: Mandela: US, Britain have 'shifted the goal posts'

BY NORM DIXON Former South African president Nelson Mandela has accused the British and US governments of "shifting the goal posts" by refusing to honour a deal to lift UN sanctions against Libya. Mandela told the February 9 London Independent

Write on: Letters to the editor

Socialist alliance in the Qld elections? The Democratic Socialists ran two candidates in the February 17 Queensland elections under a slogans: End corruption! Support socialism! For a workers' alternative to Labor!. The two candidates, Adam Baker

M1 meetings

Adelaide: M1 Adelaide. Next organising meeting Thurs Feb 15, 6pm. 5th flr, Union Bldg, Adelaide Uni (Nth Tce). Ph 8231 6982. Brisbane: May 1 Alliance meeting. Wed Feb 14, 6pm. TLC Bldg, 16 Peel St, Sth Brisbane. Ph 3831 2644. Canberra: Canberra

Oppose corporate universities

BY VIV MILEY "Australia has definitely put a lot of time and effort into making education, whether it be vocational or higher or schools, be empathetic to the needs of business and the needs of what will make somebody employable", Rafik Mankarious,

Don't agonise, organise!

By Anne O'Casey "What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?" asked feminist science fiction writer Ursula LeGuin. Her literary explorations of extra-terrestrial worlds make a vivid commentary on the inhumane state of our society.