SYDNEY — The silence on the forest accord — the centrepiece of the NSW Labor Party's election strategy — is deafening. In over two months, hardly a word has been said, and no action taken, on the uneasy compromise, stitched
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Timor activists appeal harsh sentence BRISBANE — On May 16, Jim Dowling and Ciaron O'Reilly, from the Catholic Worker organisation, were sentenced to three months' jail for a sit-in at the Defence Recruiting Centre here during Easter week, in
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Right accuses ALP of sexismOn May 13, Newcastle's sitting ALP federal member, Allan Morris, defeated a preselection challenge by Lyn Holmes. Holmes, losing 66 votes to 226, has since accused the ALP of being "sexist".
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BRISBANE — A crane driver was stood down at MIM's Mt Isa mine in the days following the return to work, accepted at a mass meeting on May 22, despite a 14-day cooling off period agreed to by unions and the company to end the
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BRISBANE — "The Goss Labor government's move to cut stamp duty on share trading is a blatant handout to big business, at a time when the corporations are making massive profits", Zanny Begg, Democratic Socialist candidate for
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PERTH — A Liberal state government proposal involves ending funding of all peak bodies in the welfare sector by June 30. They must then tender "expressions of interest" for new funds (up to a maximum of
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East Gippsland forest plan attackedMELBOURNE — Conservation groups have slammed the Victorian government's East Gippsland Forest Management Plan, calling it a recipe for environmental disaster. On May 26, 100
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DARWIN — The student union at the Northern Territory University has adopted two students of the University of East Timor (UET) as associate members. Jose Antonio Belo is a 23-year-old English student from Kelikai Bacau and Jose
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FREMANTLE — On Friday night, May 26, the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) won the first round in its battle against the Liberal state government and stevedoring company BAAC, which tried to use scab labour in
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Financial scandal hits SA LiberalsADELAIDE — The SA Liberal Party has been rocked in recent weeks by revelations of a scandal surrounding a significant donation to its 1993 state election campaign. Under new
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Teachers voted at stop-work meetings around Victoria on May 3 to begin an industrial campaign to improve working conditions. The Melbourne meeting was attended by more than 5000 teachers, and good attendances were recorded at meetings in Mildura,
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Faulkner refuses to save the TarkineHOBART — On May 24, federal environment minister John Faulkner was met by about 20 protesters demanding that he take action to save the Tarkine wilderness. Faulkner, on his way to