By Jen Crothers
SYDNEY — National Challenge, the umbrella group embracing rank-and-file activists within the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU), is offering members an alternative leadership in the upcoming national union elections. The
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Hell no!Hell no!
By Brandon Astor Jones
"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed." — Steve Biko (1946-1977).
BAJ: What is your name?
BLD: Bobby Lee Daniels.
BAJ: Can you tell
New play by Frank Otis
MELBOURNE—As part of his recovery from a traumatic background of sexual assault and psychiatric illness, Frank Otis wrote his first play, And now I lay me down to sleep, which was produced last year and played to packed
Women workers threatened by industrial laws
By Bronwen Beechey
MELBOURNE — One hundred striking workers at Michaelis Bayley Footwear in Footscray, manufacturers of Homy Ped shoes, have been subjected to police violence and legal threats
By Shane Hopkinson
NEWCASTLE — Well-known environmentalist Dr David Suzuki addressed a packed house here on April 14. Some 1300 people turned up to hear him give the first Citizenship and Governance lecture. Suzuki began with a grim assessment
Between 10,000 and 15,000 PDI supporters massed on the streets of Jakarta outside the parliament on April 15, demanding that the elected leader of the Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI), Megawati Sukarnoputri, be allowed to participate in the May 29
Pollution law exemption condemned
By Bill Mason
@box text intro = BRISBANE — Environmentalists have slammed a plan by the Queensland government to exempt the mining giant Mount Isa Mines from stricter national air quality standards to be
Another nuclear accident in Japan
By Eva Cheng
Yet another nuclear accident struck Japan on April 14, and the nuclear operating authority once again failed to report it to the central government immediately for possibly crucial emergency
The changes to Medicare already introduced by the Howard government include slashing new doctors' access to Medicare provider numbers, abolition of rebates for reversal of sterilisation, reduced rebates for some IVF procedures and for psychiatric
By Marina Cameron
As part of a drive to channel money away from the public sector and into private hands, the government is looking for further ways to cut funding to higher education. After cutting $2.3 billion from university operating grants
By Gerry Harant
After the end of World War II, everybody predicted that the capitalist economic system would be coming to an almost instant sticky end. The world Communist parties knew it; the US establishment feared it and ran an intensive
University delegation in East Timor
By Pavel Slodowy
MELBOURNE — A meeting between East Timorese guerilla leader David Alex and a delegation of Melbourne students in February was filmed by University Students for East Timor (USET). Six
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