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  • The end is nigh - publication schedule

    That's right: it's almost the end of 1996 and of Green Left's publishing year. Next week's issue will be the last for 1996 — and it will be packed with useful, informative and entertaining material for your summer reading. After our summer holiday,

  • Chinaman's Dam — National Action skulduggery

    YOUNG — The far-right organisation National Action has brought the race debate to local government in rural NSW. At a special meeting on November 6, Young Shire Council voted to extend a $20,000 loan to its Rotary Club for the purpose

  • Wooldridge flies a jumbo jet in parliament

    SYDNEY — "Whoever expects politicians to be honest?", said one of the participants during a meeting of psychiatric patients, doctors and carers at Strathfield Town Hall on November 28. The meeting was organised by a new group, Mental

  • Labor allows the right to control NUS west

    At the National Union of Students (NUS) state branch conference on November 24, the Labor right (Unity) faction and the Liberals strengthened their grip on the student movement. The Labor left in the National Organisation of Labor

  • Pressure grows over CES/DSS

    Pressure grows over CES/DSSCommunity and Public Sector Union members in the Commonwealth Employment Service have increased pressure on the federal government to stop corporatisation of the CES. The corporatisation would remove

  • Ban on homosexual foster parents

    Ban on homosexual foster parentsBRISBANE — Queensland Council for Civil Liberties president Ian Dearden has accused the state Coalition government of breaching the state's own anti-discrimination legislation by proposing to ban

  • Report slams black health crisis

    Report slams black health crisisBRISBANE — The disastrous state of the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Queensland has been underlined by a state government "status" report on health matters released on

  • New bill pushes schools privatisation

    Following a report by the Senate's employment, education and training committee, a bill which will drastically affect funding to public schools was passed by the Senate on November 29 with the support of the ALP. The bill received

  • Loose cannons

    Saw no point "The position of the Australian government is very well understood, and that may well explain why it wasn't raised." — Prime Menzies John Howard, pleased that Asian leaders at the APEC summit hadn't raised the issue of racism in

  • Meeting forms new party

    NEWCASTLE — Up to 60 people met here on November 23-24 and formed a new party of the left called the NewLabor Party. Participants and observers came from Melbourne, Sydney, Lismore, Wollongong, Canberra and Brisbane, and included

  • Black deaths in custody increasing

    Last year, 22 Aboriginal people died in custody — one and a half times the number reported in the previous year and the highest number since 1987. At least another 16 people have died so far this year. Over the last seven years,

  • Academics' pay campaign continues

    Green Left Weekly's MARCUS GREVILLE spoke to National Tertiary Education and Industry Union member at the University of Sydney Dr DICK BRYAN about the state of the union's campaign for a 15% pay rise. Question: What do you think about the NTEU's