By Natasha Simons
Attacks on jobs, wages and welfare are coming thick and fast under the Howard government, the latest being an attempt to get more young homeless people off social security benefits. On May 1, the federal government announced the
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CPSU activist Ben Courtice writes from Hobart that 153 CPSU members working in the Australian Public Service attended a meeting last week to discuss plans to fight cuts to the APS. The meeting discussed the motion from the National Executive and an
By Kevin McLoughlin
DUBLIN — "The remarkable performance of the Militant Labour candidate, Mr Joe Higgins, in Dublin West — who came within striking distance of taking the Fianna Fail seat — was not just a vote against water charges: it was a
By Jennifer Thompson
There was irony in the federal government's fanfare about honouring election promises when it introduced, on May 2, its bill to privatise a third of Telstra: this is the campaign promise most Australians would prefer it
The NSW Labor government is to consider a so-called new scheme to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. According to the May 4 Sydney Morning Herald, the NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) is working on a plan which will allow energy distributors
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — A mass meeting of CPSU members here on April 30 discussed the Howard government's attack on the federal public service and began to plan an industrial response. The meeting in the Brisbane City Hall heard union state
By Kathryn Hamilton
While the war goes on in north-east Sri Lanka, the people of Iranawila are fighting their own battle against what they see as information domination by the US broadcasting station Voice of America. The battle of the people of
By Reihana Mohideen
MANILA — They marched, wave upon wave of workers, urban poor, students and others — 120,000 strong — to rally at Luneta Park on May Day. They came despite hot sun, a sea of red flags and banners (and umbrellas). This
By Pip Hinman
Following the horrific killing of 35 people at Port Arthur on April 28, the establishment media have carried ghoulish accounts of the events and the aftermath. Given this and comparisons to the shootings at Dunblane in Scotland last
By Jenny Forward
HOBART â Jim Everett, writer and member of the Palawa (Tasmanian Aboriginal community), believes that the federal Coalition government is on a "witch-hunt" against Aborigines. Why isn't the government investigating the
SalaamPositive Black SoulMango through PolygramReviewed by Iggy Kim With airplay, Positive Black Soul's global debut album could be a chart-topping mainstream hit. With such melodies as the sugary and reggae-esque "Je Ne Sais Pas" (I Don't Know) even
Another Year in AfricaBy Rose ZwiSpinifex Press, 1995. $16.95Reviewed by Vivienne Porzsolt Rose Zwi's novel constructs a vibrant picture of life in a Jewish working-class suburb of a mining town in the shadow of World War II. Looking back to pogroms
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