ADELAIDE — The country town of Whyalla will be hit by a stoppage of 1800 workers from the BHP plant as they go out on March 29 in support of a national campaign opposing changes to the performance pay scheme. The combined unions claim seeks two
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The war against Bosnian women
The appalling news carried by the contingents of Bosnian women to International Women's Day rallies in Melbourne and Adelaide this year was probably the first many Australian women's movement activists had heard
A modest success
By Kamala Emanuel
NEWCASTLE — The Modest Day Out was a success here on Sunday, March 14.
Sydney has the Big Day Out. Last year, Newcastle bands fed up with this city's lack of initiative organised their own three-
Mining stirs protests in WA
By Jonathon Strauss
PERTH—Dee Margetts, expected to be elected as a Greens (WA) senator, told Green Left Weekly that the way has been opened for exploration and mining on all of WA's national parks by the
Not necessarily in that order
"He [Russian President Boris Yeltsin] has shown a great deal of courage in sticking up for democracy and civil liberties and market reforms, and I'm going to support that." — US President Bill Clinton.
Church leader on human rights in Cuba
HAVANA — Reverend Eunice Santana, president of the 400-million-member World Council of Churches, says the United States is pointing an unfair finger at Cuba when it comes to human rights.
She said:
By Peter Boyle
On May 24, 1991, the Eritrean Peoples Liberation Front (EPLF) won its long armed struggle against the Ethiopian government. In April the Eritrean people will freely express their right to self-determination in a referendum on
Simple Men
A film by Hal Hartley
Showing at Melbourne's Kino from April 2
Reviewed by Peter Boyle
Independent film maker Hal Hartley has a distinctive style — evident in Simple Men and his 1991 art house cinema success, Trust. His
By Herb Thompson
Following long and acrimonious negotiations, the Papua New Guinea government has raised its stake to that of equal partner in the largest gold mine in the world outside of South Africa.
To close the deal, effective from
By Max Lane
After having being forced to accept the armed forces (ABRI) vice-presidential candidate, Try Sutrisno, President Suharto has chosen a new cabinet which deliberately excludes figures close to ABRI. It comprises a select few older
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