Enterprise 'agreement' a sham
By Dave Wright
HOBART — Tasmania's new industrial legislation was put to the test last week when the first of several new enterprise agreements came before the new enterprise commissioner.
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By Nick Johnson
PHNOM PENH — Against all expectations, in a country braced for terrorist acts, the May 23-28 election has succeeded. By day three of the poll, a staggering 85% of the electorate had voted. In Battambang, the most
Newtown on the Thames
A Man for All Seasons, by Robert Bolt, is now playing at the New Theatre in King St, Newtown (Sydney). Frank McNamara (pictured, right) is excellent as Sir Thomas More — upright, conscientious, emotional and eventually
On May 21 Xanana Gusmao was sentenced to life imprisonment by an Indonesian court after he upset the regime's script by refusing to make his defence plea in Indonesian and by then making a clear and strong rebuttal of the authority of the court
By Michael Karadjis
"It is now a year since the first shells fell on Sarajevo, marking in an explosive manner the beginning of the war in Bosnia-Hercegovina. At that time, very few thought that this war would expose Europe's impotence in
Pip Hinman
What about judges?
So far the republic "debate" has been very narrowly defined by Paul Keating's minimalist position, which proposes to change nothing but the titles of a few figureheads. It is part of an attempt to forge a
Disney Adventures — Ducktails
4.00 p.m. Channel 7, weekdays
Rated C, children's viewing
Reviewed (by chance) by Sean Malloy
In the 1950s, in an environment of McCarthyism, communists were accused of brainwashing. In the 1990s Disney
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — "It's not realistic to stick to the law", Sergei Yushenkov, an aide to President Boris Yeltsin, was quoted in the Moscow press recently. "The congress is now illegitimate."
More bluntly than Yeltsin,
Logging proposed in heritage area
By Kevin L'Huillier
HOBART — The Tasmanian Wilderness Society has uncovered a 1991 state government report which identifies most of the Great Western Tiers as worthy of addition to World Heritage areas
By Deb Sorensen
Kakadu National Park — "Along the Stuart Highway, left onto the Arnhem Highway, past the Humpty Doo turn-off and the Hard Croc Cafe. When you reach the Wildman River, you'll know you're almost there."
And so I set off