Are unions ditching enterprise bargaining?
James Vassilopoulos
If you believe media reports of the September 1-5 ACTU congress, unions are abandoning enterprise bargaining and are moving towards industry-wide bargaining. This,
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Timorese art exhibition opens
By Kerryn Williams
CANBERRA — The Tuba-rai Metin art exhibition opened on September 11 at the Canberra School of Art. Initiated by the East Timor Cultural Centre in Fairfield, Sydney, this impressive
The sharp fall in currencies and stock markets in south-east Asia in recent weeks have raised serious questions about the future of the "newly industrialising countries" (NICs) or "Asian tigers". The article printed here, by CHOW WEI CHENG, is
Small MiraclesBy Eric BogleLarrikin/Festival, 1997The Emigrant & the ExileBy Eric Bogle & John MunroLarrikin/Festival, 1997 Review by Alex Bainbridge
Eric Bogle's songs still maintain some connection with social — dare I say
Asian activists address secondary students
By Kerryn Williams
CANBERRA — Touring activists Edwin Gozal from the Indonesian People's Democratic Party (PRD) and East Timorese writer Naldo Rai addressed a packed lunchtime forum at
By Eva Cheng
Ever since Beijing's turn toward the market in 1978, top Communist officials have repeated a "determination" to defend socialism and that state ownership would remain the "mainstay" of the economy. Beijing's key measure of
Strike resumes at Hunter Valley mine
By Alex Bainbridge
HUNTER VALLEY — Mine workers at Rio Tinto's Hunter Valley No. 1 coal mine resumed their strike on September 8 in response to continuing provocation by mine management. The miners had
By Emma Webb
ADELAIDE The neo-Nazi grouplet National Action on September 6 marched down Hanson Road, which runs through the western suburbs and has a large Asian population. While the march attracted 10 people, some 100 anti-racists mobilised
MELBOURNE — Green Left Weekly's RAY FULCHER and ALISON DELLIT spoke to a participant in the RMIT occupation, MARCEL CAMERON. Why did the university give way to the students' demands on the referendum?
The student union had already put a lot of
Inventing Mark Twain: The Lives of Samuel Langhorne ClemensBy Andrew HoffmanWeidenfeld & Nicolson1997, 572 pp., $49.95 (hb) Review by Phil Shannon
Mark Twain is often regarded as a simple humorist and writer of children's books about growing
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