Talking union A parliamentary inquiry into the status of women has recommended changes to the Affirmative Action Act, including tougher penalties for companies not complying with the act. At present, compliance is voluntary and the stiffest
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Brazil proposes forest program RIO DE JANEIRO — The Brazilian government is considering a plan to plant more than 200,000 sq km of forest for environmental reasons. The plan, developed by an international team working with the university of
The ALP and the unions Do we need Steve Loosley with gritted teeth? Comment by Bob Lewis Phil Cleary's win in the Wills by-election has led to renewed discussion about the ALP, its relationship to the working class, and the attitude
Timor book launched By Maurice Sibelle BRISBANE — "The Western world has a moral and political obligation to tell the truth," East Timor community representative Lucia Corte-real told a gathering here to launch a new book, East Timor: A
Calls for solidarity with Cuba The World Federation of Trade Unions is calling for 1992 to be the Year of Solidarity with Cuba. In a statement, the WFTU says trades unions and other organisations worldwide must do their best to inform people
The Master and Margarita By Michail Bulgakov Translated by Michael Glenny Collins. $16.95 Reviewed by Mario Giorgetti Osip Mandelstam, a Soviet poet who died in prison in 1938, divided literature into that permitted and that written without
Ethnic vote I am a researcher in Arabic and teach Arab history at Deakin University's Toorak campus. Your sympathetic attitudes on Afro-Asian causes are building up an increasing readership for GL among Arab Australians, who combine political
Nannies On the streets of Sydney's trendier inner-city and harbourside suburbs are surprising numbers of what seem to be, at first glance, young teenage mothers pushing prams. They look strangely out of place, in their unironed windcheaters
By Poul Funder Larsen CHELYABINSK — After picketing the city administration building for 10 days, health workers in this city in the Urals region of Russia went on strike on April 20. There were predictions that their stoppage, called in
By Sean Malloy An explosion of violent anger by oppressed people in Los Angeles and across the US has shown the world the real face of a society in decay. Behind the triumphal propaganda about the "victory of capitalism" are exposed the same
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