By Stuart Martin CANBERRA — Members of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) won their dispute with the Australian National University chancellery, casting doubt on the future of enterprise bargaining on university campuses. On October 27,
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Fate of a Free People: A Radical Re-examination of the Tasmanian WarsBy Henry ReynoldsPenguin, 1995 $16.95 (pb)Reviewed by Chris Martin With his new book Fate of a Free People, author and historian Henry Reynolds makes a solid addition to his
By John Percy The Communist Party of Australia experienced its most rapid growth in the years 1930-1934, going from 300 to 3000 members. The misery and desperation of the depression years, with up to one third of the work force unemployed, pushed
By Norm Dixon As South Africa prepares for local government elections on November 1, there has been a sharp increase in political killings in KwaZulu/Natal. The violence has reached such proportions that local elections in the province have been
Cargo Cult When a member of my household says to me, "Hey, Dave, we're out of toilet paper", I know exactly what to do. Instead of tearing apart the telephone directory — as my grandfather did — and impaling it on a nail for easy access, I go
By Susan Price MELBOURNE — Despite torrential rain, over 2000 protesters rallied against the woodchipping of old-growth forests on October 22. The rally, organised by Friends of the Earth, the Wilderness Society and Environment Victoria, was the
Reclaim the Night marches were held around the country on October 26 and 27 to protest against violence against women. In Perth, Virginia Brown reports that around 300 women and children gathered in Russell Square. Christabel Chamarette talked about
Four members of Mexico's ruling elite have been assassinated over the past two years, and not one of the cases has been solved to anyone's satisfaction. Cardinal Juan Jesus Posadas Ocampo of Guadalajara, Jalisco, and six other people died in a gun
The strike by workers against Boeing, the world's largest maker of passenger jets, entered its third week with the company determined to force unacceptable conditions on its 32,000 employees, members of the International Association of Machinists.
CPA A naive attitude to the former USSR seems to have been common to most Communist Parties with the exception of the Trotskyites and those influenced by them. In Australia, Ernest E. Judd, secretary of the Socialist Labour Party in the 1930s,
Sack the editor Calling the Australian economy "terrible" and a "disgrace", media tycoon Rupert Murdoch lambasted Australian newspapers for constantly reporting "how wonderful the economy is in Australia". — Sydney Morning Herald, October 11. A
East Timor, the media and the trutBy Jefferson Lee October 16 marked the 20th anniversary of the murder by Indonesian soldiers of five Australian journalists in Balibo, East Timor. The same day a new report to the British Parliamentary Human Rights,
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