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  • Garbos oppose redundancy deal

    Garbos oppose redundancy dealBRISBANE — Three hundred garbos rallied at King George Square on September 22 to protest against a redundancy deal being offered by the Brisbane City Council. Eighty out of three hundred

  • Gippsland wilderness endangered

    One of Australia's leading jazz musicians, Vince Jones, has condemned the logging of East Gippsland's old growth forests. What the so-called selective logging really amounts to, he told Green Left Weekly, is mass destruction. And

  • Brewery sackings planned

    Brewery sackings plannedThe Financial Review on September 17 reported an announcement by New Zealand multinational brewer Lion Nathan, of Swan, Fourex and Tooheys sackings fame, that it is seeking sackings at its latest

  • New team slams ACT PSU leadership

    CANBERRA — A well-attended September 16 press conference here heard plans for a new direction for the ACT branch of the Public Service Union (PSU). In the face of current job losses and union leadership failures, PSU Challenge

  • Report documents plight of migrant youth

    PERTH — Young migrants from non-English speaking backgrounds experience an institutionalised racism second only to Aboriginal youth. A report released here confirms that migrant youth experience higher

  • NSW cleaners continue fight

    NSW cleaners continue fight Story and photo by Paul Oboohov SYDNEY — Cleaners employed by the NSW Government Cleaning Service are into their ninth week of a campaign to stop privatisation of state cleaning by the Liberal state

  • Victorian school closures force drop-outs

    Victorian school closures force drop-outsMELBOURNE — A report released on September 1 has identified serious disruption of students following school closures by the Kennett government. Fifty-five schools were closed

  • Industrial law changes leaked

    A leaked draft agreement between the federal government and the ACTU on changing industrial law has been heralded by the Australian as a big win for unions. The deal, which includes changes to secondary boycott legislation and

  • Merv Nixon, 1923-1993

    Merv Nixon, 1923-1993 WOLLONGONG — Former South Coast Labour Council secretary and well-known Communist Party identity Merv Nixon died at Bulli Hospital on September 13 after a long battle with illness. Arriving in Wollongong in 1954, the

  • Inquiry into toxic waste scandal

    Inquiry into toxic waste scandalBRISBANE — The Criminal Justice Commission is to launch a public inquiry into large-scale corruption involving illegal dumping of toxic waste in south-east Queensland. The public

  • Protest over Aboriginal Welfare Fund

    Protest over Aboriginal Welfare FundBRISBANE — "Everything has been taken away from us — our rights, our lives. Aboriginal people must take a stand and continue the fight", said Alex Gapter, Aboriginal community

  • Black rights fighter and people's poet

    BRISBANE — Oodgeroo Noonuccal, formerly known as Kath Walker, the popular poet and Aboriginal rights activist, died at Greenslopes Hospital on September 16 at the age of 72 after a struggle with cancer.