SYDNEY – Teachers and the NSW government seem set on a collision course after the NSW Teachers Federation's 77th annual conference voted to place bans on the introduction of new programs until the beginning of the 1997 school year. Bob Carr's Labor government responded by insisting that it had a mandate to carry through its education reform agenda.
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MELBOURNE — More than 200 people attended the 1995 Queer Collaborations conference, held at Melbourne University July 10-14. The conference brought together lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgenderist students (and many
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Virtue "The office has many virtues. Its chief virtue is that it was planned by the previous government." — NSW Labor Premier Bob Carr on his new $28 million office. Job description "You're not a copper till you can work pissed." — NSW
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Sydney Up to 40,000 people rallied, marched and picketed here on Bastille Day, July 14, to condemn the proposed French nuclear testing in the Pacific, write Amy Phillips and Chris Spindler. A day-long picket was held at the French
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Seminar challenges privatisationADELAIDE — Widespread concern and opposition to privatisation were demonstrated here on June 28-29, when 100 people attended a seminar, "Selling off the State".
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SYDNEY — Teachers at the Adult Migrant English Service (AMES) in Auburn and Parramatta are campaigning to stop a threatened closure of English for migrants classes at Auburn. AMES is administered by the state
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'A wasted six-year opportunity'BRISBANE — "Whichever way the final result goes, the Goss Labor government has wasted a priceless six-year opportunity for major reform in Queensland", Democratic Socialist candidate for
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MELBOURNE — The ninth conference of the National Organisation of Women Students in Australia was held here July 3-7. With around 600 participants, it was the largest NOWSA conference yet. The theme was "Women in revolt".
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MELBOURNE The Queer Collaborations conference — organised by and for lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenderists and their supporters — will be held here July 10-14. Cameron Cutts, a member of the conference organising
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Socialists call for 'people before profit'BRISBANE — The Democratic Socialist candidate for the seat of Brisbane Central, Zanny Begg, called for the creation of "a new kind of government based on putting the interests of
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In by-elections in June for the Community and Public Sector Union, one of the country's largest unions, GREG ADAMSON was elected ACT assistant secretary on the ticket of CPSU Challenge. STEVE ROGERS spoke to him for Green Left Weekly. What does
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Defence "We are just doing this to keep some defence contractors who put out big political contributions, I think, alive." — US member of Congress Pat Schroeder on why the Congress voted to buy two more B-2 Stealth bombers, at US$1.2 billion