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  • Last issue for 1993

    Last issue for 1993 This is the last issue of Green Left Weekly for the year. We have included a larger than usual number of feature articles to provide interesting reading throughout the holidays. Our thanks and best holiday wishes to the

  • PSU Challenge aims to strengthen union

    CANBERRA — Defeat of the incumbents in the ACT branch Public Sector Union elections has sent a shiver down the spine of the local ALP officialdom. With around 21,000 members, the PSU is the largest union in the ACT. It is not

  • SA elections: alternative candidates

    As long as the economic rationalist ethos prevails in the major parties, the needs of the majority will continue to be sidelined for the interests of big business. Here is a brief guide to the alternative candidates standing in the SA state

  • Alliance to campaign for democracy

    Alliance to campaign for democracyHOBART — The Tasmanian Community Alliance was formed at a meeting on December 2 to oppose undemocratic legislation introduced by the Groom Liberal government. In addition to giving

  • CJC hears witnesses on death in custody

    BRISBANE — The Criminal Justice Commission's public inquiry into the death in police custody of Aboriginal dancer Daniel Yock, 18, began here on November 24. The original police account was that they

  • Picketing charge 'a threat to all'

    WOLLONGONG — The trial of two South Coast trade union officials on criminal charges, arising from a picket line at a Kiama construction site, has been adjourned to February. South Coast Labour Council (SCLC) secretary Paul

  • Did someone murder Douglas Scott?

    Douglas Bruce Scott died in Berrimah jail in Darwin early in the morning of July 5, 1985. A police inquest and the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody both ruled it was suicide. But Doug's widow, Lettie Scott,

  • Strange, that

    Strange, that "The image has not been a good or helpful one. It's all about spooks and reds under the bed and that kind of thing." — ASIO head David Sadleir on public perceptions of his organisation. Rushed "Frankly speaking, we just don't

  • ACTU firms links to fake union

    By Jana D.K. JAKARTA — Worker activists and representatives of non-government organisations have met ACTU president Martin Ferguson and told him of their opposition to the ACTU's decision to provide $2 million to, and strengthen cooperation

  • Queen Street Mall threat

    Queen Street Mall threatBRISBANE — City mall management renewed attacks on democratic rights in the Queen Street Mall on November 30 by trying to force removal of a display board which was part of a stall supporting

  • Power brokers stunned

    Power brokers stunned John Wilson, former president of the ACT Trades and Labor Council, individually black banned in his workplace by the PSU leadership and the TLC in an act of ALP factional hooliganism: "The election result has tipped the

  • Hindmarsh picket continues

    Hindmarsh picket continues ADELAIDE — Support for the Friends of Goolwa and Kumarangk — opposing the proposed Hindmarsh Island bridge and associated developments — is growing. Unions supporting this broad coalition now include all