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Memorial meeting for Ernest Mandel By John Percy SYDNEY — More than 90 people filled the Resistance Centre here on August 20 to honour the memory of Ernest Mandel, world-renowned Marxist scholar and revolutionary who died in Belgium on July

By Sally Mitchell DARWIN After two months of negotiations which ended in a deadlock, on August 25 Power and Water Authority unions took their wages dispute with the government to the Industrial Relations Commission. Work bans have been

By Margaret Allan NEWCASTLE The Greens have announced their candidates for the September 9 elections for the City Council. Apart from the ALP, the Greens are the only political party to stand candidates in all of the wards. Three quarters

Some concern "I have some concerns, particularly as some of the changes they [banks] have made are actually contrary to the recommendations in our report." — Dr David Cousins, head of the Prices Surveillance Authority, when banks raised fees

Ferguson installed amid ALP factional dealsMELBOURNE — The factional brawls over the ALP national executive's decision to install ACTU president Martin Ferguson in the federal seat of Batman have highlighted,

Victorian police shootingsMELBOURNE — A coroner's inquest into the 1988 shooting of Graeme Jensen concluded on August 11 with the release of a report which found that the police operation was incompetently

The Chinese government's latest nuclear test, on August 16, has triggered a wave of protests across the country. The latest test took place at Lop Nor in China's north west province of Xinjiang, the same site as the May 15

SYDNEY — Plans by the Public Sector Union Group of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) to restructure massively are floundering. The plans are designed to centralise financial and other controls of the group,

Trammies strike over enterprise bargainingMELBOURNE — More cuts are foreshadowed in the latest enterprise bargaining agreement (EBA) members of the tram division of the Public Transport Union are being asked to

Residents protest against freewayMELBOURNE — About 70 people protested on August 12 against Premier Jeff Kennett's City Link mega-freeway project, which will link the eastern and the Tullamarine freeways. The

MELBOURNE — La Trobe University administration has backed down in a fight with the Students' Representative Council over the SRC's funding. After a student general meeting on August 15 of 300 students, the largest at La

Soorley warns: ALP 'could implode'BRISBANE — Brisbane Lord Mayor Jim Soorley has warned the Queensland ALP government it will not survive if the administration continues to exclude people from the