Lessons from the Katies caseLessons from the Katies case
On July 8, the Industrial Relations Court ruled that Katies Fashions acted unlawfully in March 1995 when it made "sexist assumptions" and sacked 25 migrant women workers at its
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Strike defends union rights
By Jonathan Strauss
SYDNEY — Workers at O'Briens Metal Products in Caringbah struck on July 3 in defence of their right to organise after the union delegate, co-delegate and one other union militant were
The Washington ClubByPeter CorrisSydney: Bantam, 1997. 254 pp., $12.95 (pb)The Fourth EstateBy Jeffrey Archer London: Harper Collins, 1996. 551 pp., $14.95 (pb) Review by Tony Smith
Supposedly, power causes conflict, and conflict produces the
Ratbags in the ranks: Hanson, the Coalition and the far right
The rise of the virulently racist and xenophobic Pauline Hanson has provided Australia's small and divided — sometimes warring — far-right organisations the opportunity to
The Democratic Republic of Congo's new health minister is JEAN BAPTISTE SONDJI, a leader of the Front Patriotique (Patriotic Front, PF), the main radical left party in the Kinshasa-based opposition. Unlike the rest of the Kinshasa opposition, the PF
Street social securityStreet social security
By Brandon Astor Jones
"Government[s] can find money for anything they choose — buckets of money being thrown at the Olympics, $41 million plucked out of the sky to do landscaping around
Celebrating Diversity launched
ADELAIDE — The Celebrating Diversity Coalition's first annual general meeting on July 7 was attended by 60 people. The meeting elected office bearers and a committee to oversee its functioning between
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — This is "a great day for Australia in terms of civil rights", visiting US former Black Panther Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin told a media conference here on July 11, after his release from jail. Earlier that day, the
Racist Attacks on Aboriginal building
NEWCASTLE — The new Mindaribba Local Lands Council building in Metford has been the target of racist attacks in the past six weeks.
In the first incident, which occurred around the time of Pauline
Unwinding blues
Music Makin' MamaAnn RabsonAlligator Records through Festival Review by Melanie Sjoberg
I had reached the end of a particularly difficult week at work and a night of serious Green Left Weekly selling. I then wallowed in the
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