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  • International green left meeting set

    International green left meeting setAfter the very successful 1990 and 1991 Socialist Scholars Conferences, plans are now under way to hold an International Green Left Conference in 1994. The gathering will be in Sydney

  • Women inspired by NOWSA conference

    BRISBANE — Organisers of this year's Network of Women Students Australia (NOWSA) conference in Brisbane expected 250 women, but 500 arrived — double the number who attended NOWSA '92 in Adelaide. Many

  • WA compensation campaign

    WA compensation campaignPERTH — Unions here have endorsed a proposal to organise protests culminating in a rally on August 19 in response to state government changes to workers compensation. TLC assistant

  • Loose cannons

    Persuasion "Charm, persuasion, the telephone and supplies of Scotch." — A British government source listing the tools available to ensure a desired vote from hereditary members of the House of Lords. (The government later won the vote.)

  • Indonesian workers group condemns ACTU

    Indonesian workers group condemns ACTU The Jakarta-based worker support organisation Yayasan Maju Bersama (YMB — Advance Together Foundation) has called for Australian unions to boycott plans by the ACTU and the Australian government to

  • Public services on Qld hit list

    Public services on Qld hit listBRISBANE — In the latest of a series of planned savage cutbacks in the Queensland public sector, up to 12,000 government workers could lose their jobs in the education and health area, it

  • Loose cannons

    Rift on the right US Contragate figure Oliver North has cancelled his subscription to that bastion of conservative oracles, Readers Digest, because of an article entitled "Does Oliver North Tell the Truth?" (Answer: he doesn't.) Nobody

  • Hamersley sacks union activist

    Hamersley sacks union activistPERTH — One hundred and eighty members of the Metal and Engineering Workers' Union (MEWU) struck after Hamersley Iron sacked John Mercer, the union convener at the Tom Price operation,

  • Swift response to Indonesian repression

    Swift response to Indonesian repressionMELBOURNE — The news that students at the Jakarta campus of the National Science and Technology Institute had been beaten and arrested by the Indonesian military for protesting

  • Industrial relations bills tabled in WA

    PERTH — Industrial relations minister Graham Kierath tabled the Workplace Agreements Bill, the Industrial Relations Amendments Bill and the Minimum Conditions of Employment Bill in the WA parliament on July 8. When

  • Criminal conviction for peaceful protest

    SYDNEY — A dangerous precedent has been set in NSW with the criminal conviction of five logging protesters who appeared in Cooma Local Court on July 7. The five conservationists were arrested in April during a peaceful

  • 2000 attend Indigenous Youth Conference

    Darwin — At sunrise on July 5, a symbolic fire was lit and the ashes of the first World Indigenous Youth Conference were thrown into it. Traditional dances were performed in the light of the flames. More than 2000