NEWCASTLE — Around 180 members of the Combined Waterfront Group of Unions staged a stop-work and march on the morning of February 17, in protest at Maritime Services Board plans to make 30 blue collar workers redundant in pursuit of "structural
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Action updates ADELAIDE — Around 20 people attended the launch of Student Underground at the Resistance Bookshop on February 15. Student Underground is a new radical newsletter compiled by high school students. It takes up issues such as
Cuba's security council term ends By Héctor Igarza UNITED NATIONS — For both friends and foes, the Security Council will not be the same this year. Cuba completed its term as member of that body on December 31. Evaluating its two
By Tom Flanagan HOBART — A blockade organised by the Wilderness Society brought road works to a standstill in the threatened East Picton region of Tasmania's southern forest on February 17. About 40 protesters, including Green Independent
Our dear old Queen em = By Denis Kevans I really love Australia's deal old Queen, Our dear old Queen gets dearer, as you know, Our dear old Queen's the dearest Queen of all, She's far too bloody dear, she's got to go.
By Melanie Sjoberg MELBOURNE — While some media and business circles have hailed the recent Nissan plant closure as a necessary rationalisation, prospects in the vehicle industry are no brighter for Nissan's demise. Ford motors has announced
Blue Mountains mayor resigns By Denis Kevans WENTWORTH FALLS — Mayor Peter O'Toole has resigned from the Blue Mountains City Council after the council failed to back his actions in regard to a controversial development. O'Toole had
By Deborah Singerman Most migration statistics and research have suffered from gender blindness. The experience of migrant women has often been subsumed under that of migrant men: the migrant experience becomes that of the principal applicant,
Certainly not "He is certainly not an employee." — Philip von Hardenberg, manager of Sydney's Ritz Carlton hotel, on being asked whether Bob Hawke is paying the full rate of $525 per night, or whether he has a special deal for the several
By Way of Deception: An Insider's Devastating Expose of the MOSSAD By Claire Hoy and Victor Ostrovsky Arrow Books Ltd, London. 1991. $12.95 (pb) Reviewed by Mark Delmege This is a book I would recommend to anyone interested in the Middle