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Fee boycott at SCU By Bernard Wunsch LISMORE — The administration of Southern Cross University has imposed an up-front fee of $18 on all students enrolling this year. In response, the Students Representative Council is organising a boycott. SRC
By Russell Pickering CANBERRA — The Democratic Socialists are the only progressive party contesting the ACT election who will be recommending where their supporters direct their preferences. Sue Bull, Democratic Socialist candidate for Molonglo,
IWD forums debate feminist issues In preparation for International Women's Day, forums on issues confronting women have been held in Perth and Adelaide. In Perth, Shannon Buckley writes, approximately 30 women and men participated in a one-day
By Renfrey Clarke MOSCOW — Part of the Russian "soul", western tradition holds, is a unique bent for passive suffering. Centuries of peasant revolts, not to speak of other convulsions, give the lie to this myth. Nevertheless, it still gets
Philippines left confronts the economic crisis MANILA — FRANCISCO NEMENZO, a founding member of BISIG (Union for Socialist Ideas and Action) and the newly-established AKBAYAN! (Citizens' Action Party) spoke to Green Left Weekly's REIHANA MOHIDEEN
Treading Our Own Paths: A book of writings by people from the Canberra region who have experienced psychiatric illnessEdited by Robin DavidsonFootsteps Press, 1997.92 pp., $10 (includes postage)ACT Writers Centre, PO Box 23, Griffith, ACT 2603Also
Democratic Socialists: time to put the unions on a war footing "Corporate Australia sniffs a decisive victory at Webb Dock", Dick Nichols, the Democratic Socialist Party's industrial convenor said last weekend. "That's why the union movement has to
CFMEU wins WorkCover top-up deal By Michael Bull MELBOURNE — The Master Builders Association (MBA) last week agreed to union demands for workers' compensation top-up insurance to cover the state government cuts to WorkCover. Construction
Snake CradleBy Roberta SykesAllen and Unwin, 1997. 330 pp. Review by Maureen Sexton Snake Cradle is the first volume of Roberta Sykes' three-volume autobiography Snake Dreaming. Sykes leads us through the story of her life until 18 years of age. We
Glad you explained that "[British Prime Minister Tony Blair's] meeting with US President Bill Clinton, advisers and academics in Washington to set an intellectual framework to Democrat and British Labour policies [was] dubbed a 'wonkathon' by the
More support for MUA A section of the CPSU has passed a motion that: "The Tax Section Council of the Community and Public Sector Union expresses its support for the Maritime Union of Australia against the attack by the National Farmers
No new Gulf War! By Allen Myers US President Bill Clinton, reported Prime Minister John Howard, was "very grateful" for the Australian government's backing as the US prepares an attack on Iraq. US presidents were similarly grateful the last time