Cutting Edge: The Colour of Gold
SBS Television
Screening Tuesday August 17, 7.30 p.m. (7 p.m. in Adelaide)
Reviewed by Norm Dixon
"We dig out the gold but we have never seen it with our own eyes. So if you tell us about the glitter of
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Rosemarie Gillespie urges help for Bougainville
By Tony Hastings
Rosemarie Gillespie believes in direct action. When she heard that people were dying from lack of medicine in Bougainville because of the Papua New Guinea government's
The ugly logic of enterprise bargaining
It appears that the Keating government is about to strike a new deal with the ACTU to allow enterprise bargains to be stitched together without unions. At present the Industrial Relations Commission can
By Larry Douglas
On July 26, 1993 the San Francisco Labor Council voted to oppose the US blockade of Cuba and endorsed the US Cuba Friendship Caravan which is delivering supplies to Cuba.
The council, which represents trade unions
By Greg Adamson
CANBERRA — A fake Public Service Union (PSU) campaign over job security has focussed attention on dubious dealings in the ACT branch of the Labor Party.
The PSU executive cried foul in the employment of former Trades and
By Anthony Brown
A Brisbane solicitor specialising in immigration law has called on the federal government to replace its policy of detaining undocumented boat arrivals with a supervised release program.
South Brisbane Immigration and
My World — South African exile Paul Thusi presents his weekly program on Sydney's Radio Skid Row (2RSR 88.9). Paul keeps the African community, and others interested in Africa, up to date with the latest news from the African continent and the
Unemployment and NESB
Unemployment, especially for mature aged people who have always had a job, is particularly difficult to cope with; but if you come from a Non-English Speaking Background (NESB) and find it difficult to communicate and
By Pip Hinman
On most supermarket shelves these days, tuna cans are marked as "dolphin safe". For the unsuspecting consumer, the purchase of this item is preferable to those that are unmarked, which consumers rightly suspect to be the product
Henry Thiagaraj gave the following speech at the World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna in June.
It is in achieving the supreme goal of "all human rights for all" that we bring to the attention of this august body the plight of the 250
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