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Kraft strike in sixth week

Kraft strike in sixth week By Alana Kerr MELBOURNE — Seventy-three members of the Electrical Trades Union and the Automotive, Food, Metals and Engineering Union have entered their sixth week of an around-the-clock picket outside Kraft's

WA teachers reject concessions

WA teachers reject concessions By Anthony Benbow PERTH — WA teachers have rejected a pay deal offered to them by the education Department on March 31. Teachers have been enforcing bans on unpaid out-of-hours work since the start of the

The left in the New World Order

Links: International Journal of Socialist Renewal Issue number 4 New Course Publications Reviewed by Salim Muktar While the promise that the New World Order would usher in an era of peace lies in tatters, the claim by neo-liberal

No fees campaign launched at Newcastle

No fees campaign launched at Newcastle By Alex Bainbridge NEWCASTLE — Confirmation from the vice chancellor of Newcastle University, Raoul Mortley, that up-front fees are to be increased, as well as reports of the introduction of fees for

Radio highlights

Reconciling Australia: The Hard Questions — Four prominent Aborigines have their say about the woolly concept of "reconciliation" in a special four-part series. Barbara Flick, indigenous adviser to the AMA, John Ah Kit, executive director of the

Abu Mazen poised to take up PNA post

Abu Mazen poised to take up PNA post By Karen Farrell Declaration of Principles chief architect Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) will finally assume his role as head of the Palestinian Negotiations Supervisory Committee, according to an

Coogee women's pool saved

Coogee women's pool saved By Sarah Peart SYDNEY — An anti-discrimination tribunal on March 31 dismissed as "vexatious" and "frivolous" against the Randwick and Coogee Ladies Swimming Club and the Randwick Council over McIver's Baths

On the box

The Essential History of Europe: Spain — Behind the lavish amount spent on Expo and the Olympics in Barcelona, suburban slums were hidden from view by hastily erected facades — a contradiction that this program maintains is typical of modern

Digging in shallow ground

Blowout Comb Digable Planets EMI Reviewed by Zanny Begg Digable Planet's 1993 release Reaching (a New Refutation of Time and Space) was unforgettable. It had a catchy, slick beat. But what made the album really stay in your mind was its

'To save the environment, we have to organise ourselves'

This is the text of a speech to a rally against woodchipping, which drew 5000 people in Hobart on March 18. It was given by REBECCA MECKELBURG on behalf of the Environmental Youth Alliance. The federal Labor government's December decision to

Looking out: Learning, early on

Learning, early on By Brandon Astor Jones "How does a doctor or a health care worker teach a mother that her children must always wash their hands after playing with the family kitten when [their] tin house is not connected to water? —

Beddall's bungling gives hope for the forests

Beddall's bungling gives hope for the forests By Dailan Pugh Little did federal resource minister David Beddall realise, when he gave the woodchippers a Christmas present of 6 million tonnes of woodchips, that he would set in train a series