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MELBOURNE — Members of the Australian Services Union (ASU) employed by the State Electricity Commission of Victoria (SECV) in the La Trobe Valley went on strike for 24 hours at midnight on July 28. This followed a period of

MELBOURNE — Sixty people gathered outside the Australian Defence Industries (ADI) plant in Footscray on July 25 to draw attention to Australia's continued role in the Bougainville war. Organised by Australian

A report published by the Australian Manufacturing Council last month, The Environmental Challenge: Best Practice Environmental Regulation, demands relaxation of environmental regulations which are alleged to be

Workers seize equipment ADELAIDE — Workers from a bankrupt crane hire firm have hidden hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of equipment to guarantee that they will receive their redundancy payments. The workers seized two 50-tonne

Despite? "Despite presiding over a period of the most sweeping economic liberalisation since India achieved independence 46 years ago, [Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha] Rao has been battered by allegations of corruption ..." — Sydney Morning

600 meet on Victorian WorkcoverMELBOURNE — State award union delegates, occupational health and safety delegates and injured workers met on July 21 to condemn the Kennett government's Workcover scheme. The meeting,

On July 26 the federal cabinet worked out new drafting instructions on a legislative response to the 1992 Mabo land rights case. This represents an attempt to come to a common position with Liberal state governments in Western

British environmentalists jailed Seven environmentalists, including Simon Fairlie, one of the editors of the Ecologist, were jailed for 28 days on July 23 for breaching a High Court injunction preventing them from protesting against the

BRISBANE — Queenslanders should brace themselves for continued government spending cuts. With the state budget not due to be brought down until September, already the razors are out. After 44 months in office, the Goss

Miguel Marmol, known to his people and comrades as "the living legend", and to his enemies as "the red phantom", died of natural causes on June 24 in San Salvador at the age of 75. A dinner and video showing is being held in

Groom to legislate against MaboHOBART — A campaign of fear and misinformation has begun in Tasmania, orchestrated by those hostile to the recent Mabo High Court decision. They include the Tasmanian Chamber of Mines, the

Maybe "Maybe if the Liberal Party were a little less tense about the public examination of its sense of direction and some of its policy positions, then we might do a little better in the future." — Liberal front-bencher John Howard, claiming