ADELAIDE — The country town of Whyalla will be hit by a stoppage of 1800 workers from the BHP plant as they go out on March 29 in support of a national campaign opposing changes to the performance pay scheme. The combined unions claim seeks two
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A modest success
By Kamala Emanuel
NEWCASTLE — The Modest Day Out was a success here on Sunday, March 14.
Sydney has the Big Day Out. Last year, Newcastle bands fed up with this city's lack of initiative organised their own three-
By Bernie Brian
WOLLONGONG — To the strains of the "Internationale", hundreds of friends and comrades gathered on March 26 to farewell and celebrate the life of Stan Woodbury, who had died peacefully at Port Kembla Hospital two days earlier
Panama's Censorship Board gave in to international pressure from human rights and media groups, journalists and other prominent individuals on March 18 by lifting its ban on the film The Panama Deception. The retreat came only hours before the
Melbourne trams called a 'luxury'
By Alex Cooper
MELBOURNE — Comments by the most senior bureaucrat in the Public Transport Corporation (PTC) have outraged public transport groups and users.
Alan Reiher, acting secretary of the
Mining stirs protests in WA
By Jonathon Strauss
PERTH—Dee Margetts, expected to be elected as a Greens (WA) senator, told Green Left Weekly that the way has been opened for exploration and mining on all of WA's national parks by the
Church leader on human rights in Cuba
HAVANA — Reverend Eunice Santana, president of the 400-million-member World Council of Churches, says the United States is pointing an unfair finger at Cuba when it comes to human rights.
She said:
By Jose Gutierrez
March 15 was a historic date for El Salvador. The Truth Commission, made up of US jurist Thomas Buergenthal, Colombian ex-president Belisario Betancur and Venezuela's former foreign minister, Reinaldo Figueredo, released
By Karen Fredericks
On March 10 Dr David Gunn was shot three times in the back at point-blank range by an anti-choice terrorist, Michael Griffin, outside the Pensacola Women's Medical Services clinic in Florida. Although most anti-abortion
SYDNEY — The Malaysian Tourist Bureau closed up shop for the day on March 24 rather than face a protest organised by the Sydney Rainforest Action Group. The protest highlighted the continuing destruction of the forest home of the Penan people in
By Peter Boyle
On May 24, 1991, the Eritrean Peoples Liberation Front (EPLF) won its long armed struggle against the Ethiopian government. In April the Eritrean people will freely express their right to self-determination in a referendum on
By Herb Thompson
Following long and acrimonious negotiations, the Papua New Guinea government has raised its stake to that of equal partner in the largest gold mine in the world outside of South Africa.
To close the deal, effective from
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