By Andrew Watson
PERTH — West Australian Liberal Premier Richard Court has signalled a Jeff Kennett style of approach to industrial relations, aiming to introduce new anti-union legislation when parliament sits in May.
The proposed
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Tasmanian teachers' bank accounts raided
By Shayne McCallum
HOBART — Outrage has erupted among Tasmanian teachers over revelations by a Tasmanian building society senior executive that money has been deducted from teachers' personal
By Igal Avidan
On February 28 exactly 50 years ago, a few hundred women began a historic demonstration in Nazi Germany — perhaps the only public protest against the Holocaust ever to be staged under Hitler.
Yet the demonstration is
A habit of breaking new ground
The Times Of Zenia Gold
By Chris Jones
Black Wattle Press
Reviewed by Michael Arnold
Being at the forefront of new queerground is almost old hat for poet Chris Jones. Chris was involved in the
Power and Protest: Movements for Social Change in Australian Society
By Verity Burgmann
Allen and Unwin. 302 pp. $24.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Vannessa Hearman
Verity Burgmann, co-editor of the four volume A People's History of Australia
Blood Moon
By Tes Lyssiotis
Directed by Robert Draffin
Cast: Nina Landis, Maggie Millar, Diedre Rubinstein, Mary Sitarenos
Theatreworks, Melbourne, until March 28
Reviewed by Bronwen Beechey
Blood Moon is Tes Lyssiotis' 13th play
By Peter Boyle
Linn Van Hek and Joe Dolce presented Difficult Women, readings and songs celebrating "women who have dared to stand up and speak", to completely sold out seasons at Melbourne's La Mamma and Budinski's theatres last year. Then,
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — "What has occurred has been an attempt to concentrate power fully in the hands of the Soviets, to return the Communist nomenklatura to the levers of government, and to seize back the democratic conquests of August
MARINA CARMAN's family left South Africa in 1977 and returned for their first visit in December. Here she describes what she found.
The one word that hits more than any other and around which everything else seems to circle is: change.
Protest at Brisbane Women's Prison
By Sylvia Porter
BRISBANE — Twenty-five people picketed the Brisbane Women's Prison on March 20, protesting against the imprisonment of women for offences related to domestic violence.
The action