The executive board of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union in the US released the following statement on May 6. We have abridged it slightly. Sunday's White House statement blaming social programs of the 1960s for the Los
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By Roger Raven PERTH — Premier Carmen Lawrence's recent announcement that 40-49%. of the Rural and Industries Bank is to be flogged off is a familiar litany — privatisation of profit, socialisation of cost. Although Lawrence's statement
Car workers reject package ADELAIDE — 4000 workers at Holden's Elizabeth plant, covered by the Vehicle Builders Employees Federation, Metal and Engineering Workers Union, Federated Clerks Union and the Electrical Trades Union have voted to
By Irina Glushchenko and Boris Kagarlitsky MOSCOW — How big a bribe do you have to pay if you want some service performed by an employee of the Moscow mayor's office? Ten per cent of the total value of the business involved. This figure
More like melodrama "It's a tragedy for all Australia." — An Associated Pulp and Paper Mills executive on the recent defeat of resource security legislation in the Senate. APPM said the defeat had led it to scrap plans to build a $1.2 billion
Poor vote for British Greens British Green Party national council member Penny Kemp says the party's poor result in the recent national elections was due to a move to the right and an undue concentration on electoral politics. The party lost
Hard issues [The following letter was first submitted to the Sydney Morning Herald, which did not print it.] Peter Hartcher's article on Paul Keating's Aboriginal stance (Sydney Morning Herald, 27.3.92) states: "The two hardest issues are
CSIRO finds sea levels rising For the first time in the southern hemisphere, there is evidence that the deep ocean has increased in temperature, resulting in a sea level rise. The CSIRO reported on May 13 that its oceanographers had found
Action updates BRISBANE — Sixty students protested at the University of Queensland on May 13, where Federal Liberal politician John Howard was delivering a speech. The demonstration was called by Students Against Cuts to highlight opposition
At the Sydney Film Festival Night on Earth Written, Directed and Produced by Jim Jarmusch Starring Winona Ryder, Giancarlo Esposito, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Roberte Benigni Reviewed by Ulrike Erhardt Night on Earth, one of many offerings at
Discrimination charged in teacher sacking By Melanie Sjoberg ADELAIDE — David Jobling, an artist employed on contract by Jamestown Primary School, has been sacked by the Education Department, on the grounds that he has published "offensive"
By Barry Healy SYDNEY — The first week of the Independent Commission Against Corruption inquiry into the Terry Metherell scandal has been a difficult one for Premier Nick Greiner. Far from encouraging the fiasco to fade quietly, the inquiry
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