Alliance against live animal exports
By Margaret Setter
An alliance between the Australasian Meat Employees Industrial Union (AMIEU) and Animal Liberation has been forged to fight for the abolition of the live cattle export trade to Asia
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Slave wages for disabled workers
By Deirdre Graham
SYDNEY — Mentally disabled workers are working for as little as $3 a day, according to Wayne Ryan, a psychologist with the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association (PRA).
"Wages range
By Sarah Stephen
Travelling from Madrid to the Basque region in the far north of Spain, I could feel a change in the political atmosphere. In the narrow cobblestone streets of Bilbao, colourful posters advertising upcoming rallies plastered the
By Cameron Parker
SYDNEY — In a revealing speech to the Airport Privatisation Conference in the Hilton Hotel on May 22, minister for transport Laurie Brereton unveiled the federal ALP government's strategy for selling leases for Australia's 22
Trim, Taut and Terrific
Written by Nick Hughes and Ian Farr
Junction Theatre, Thebarton (Adelaide), until June 10
Reviewed by Sophia Villis and Anthony Thirlwall
Trim, Taut and Terrific is exactly that. It's musical theatre that neatly
An all-women ALP branch?
The ALP's campaign to recruit women and present itself as the place to be for all feminists with ambition is continuing. In Victoria, an all-women branch has been mooted by Linelle Gibson, secretary of the Williamstown
Financial scandal hits SA Liberals
By Melanie Sjoberg
ADELAIDE — The SA Liberal Party has been rocked in recent weeks by revelations of a scandal surrounding a significant donation to its 1993 state election campaign.
Under new
Too easy
By Brandon Astor Jones
"It was fun meeting other people, seeing what they're like ... they're really just like us." — Adrian Proby
When left to their own devices, we can usually depend upon children to cut through those
Dili November 1991
By Egas Alves
Today in my city the sky to be cloudy
To turn off in the view of the sunrise
The town apparently to be with sadness
What melancholy will appear to the people who are living there?
Today in my
'Dolly' and sex
I quote Kath Gelber quoting Dolly (GLW, May 10) which, apparently writing on what it calls "having sex", says: "Being ready or not is determined by such qualifications as a willingness on the part of both partners to discuss the
East Gippsland forest plan attacked
By Bronwen Beechey
MELBOURNE — Conservation groups have slammed the Victorian government's East Gippsland Forest Management Plan, calling it a recipe for environmental disaster.
On May 26, 100
Execution threat against prisoners in Iran
According to what the Tudeh Party regards as reliable information, the Iranian government is preparing to execute 44 political prisoners.
There are also indications, the party says, of plans to
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