By Sam Wainwright and Sarah Stephen
Protests are continuing against the federal government's white paper proposal to remove the under 18 dole and introduce a below award "training wage".
Around Australia more than a thousand people
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By Melanie Sjoberg
ADELAIDE — The anxiously awaited Public Service Audit review, released on May 3, has confirmed the worst fears of trade union and community activists. The audit found that the state is in debt to the tune of an additional
Still on the Journey
Sweet Honey in the Rock's 20th anniversary album
Review by Carla Gorton
"Viva South Africa, Viva!" Hundreds of concert goers were on their feet with their fists in the air. The echo resounded through the Perth Concert
A "Jazz, Folk Frolic" held in the Brisbane bayside suburb of Lota on May 1 attracted more than 100 people for an afternoon of politics and music. Organised by the Left Arts Group to raise money for Green Left Weekly, the event took place under a
By Boris Kagarlitsky
MOSCOW — During this northern spring, a strike wave has rolled across Russia. This has now become a tradition. The problems forcing workers to protest are generally the same: failure to pay wages, declining production and
By Michael Rafferty
The term "training wage" is a misnomer. We should call it what it really is. It is a below-award youth wage — a pay cut for all young people entering the work force, and potentially also for all young people already in the
SYDNEY — A planning meeting on May 11, attended by 65 women and convened by the Women's Abortion Action Campaign, decided to hold a rally on May 28, the international day for women's reproductive rights, on the issue of a woman's right to
Looking out: Deadly 'isms'
By Brandon Astor Jones
Brian Head is dead. Many of his classmates attended his funeral, held at the Hillcrest Baptist Church in Acworth, Georgia.
On March 25 the stocky 15-year-old took the family pistol to
By Frank Enright
In March, for no apparent reason, New Zealand Prime Minister Jim Bolger declared for a republic in 2000. Many in his own National Party were taken by surprise, and the opposition Labour Party could only mutter that it would be
World of music at Cafe Folkloric
Brisbane's Cafe Folkloric presents an impressive line-up of international music on May 19, starting at 8pm. With Andy Rigby on Paraguayan harp, Riley Lee on Japanese bamboo flute, Linsey Pollak, Humarimba Band &
Mbongeni Ngema
I was excited by Norm Dixon's review of Mbongeni Ngema's new play Magic at 4am (GLW #139). In 1992 I watched a videotaped performance of one of his earlier plays, Township Fever, on SBS and found it simply the most exciting play I
Khmer Rouge on the march
By Helen Jarvis
Cambodia is once again at a crisis point. The Khmer Rouge are wreaking havoc across a 400 km arc in the north-western provinces, burning schools and hospitals so painfully rebuilt in recent years,
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