Dorf workers push company back
By Chris Spindler
MELBOURNE — After two weeks of being locked out, about 200 workers at the Email Dorf plant in Melbourne's south-east have returned to work after the company accepted most of the workers' demands.
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Rally to defend native title
By Jo Williams
MELBOURNE — About 450 people gathered on the steps of Parliament House on October 22 to protest against Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett's attempts to ram through native title extinguishment in
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By Renfrey Clarke
KEMEROVO, Russia — Gennady Filatyev, director of the Volkov coalmine near this city in the Kuzbass industrial region of Siberia, is a bull of a man. When he leans across a lectern, gesticulating as he makes a point, he could be
Indonesian regime suffers further setbacks
By Max Lane
The Habibie-Wiranto regime suffered another major setback on October 22 when the parliament finally passed a law on "public expression of opinion". The final version of the law undid
Land for health swap 'an outrage'
By Peter Johnston
DARWIN — The Jawoyn Association announced last week that, following negotiations with the Northern Territory government, it would drop a claim for land 20 kilometres south of Katherine in
Pulling strings
By Brandon Astor Jones
"The poet's heart, it is said, must find and be in agreement with the reader's intellect." — Irving Elmer Bell From time to time, as a new feature in this space, I will compose a poem in the hope of
Another 'theory' wears thin
By Allen Myers
The Japanese ruling Liberal Democratic Party on October 11 announced plans for the government to spend ¥67 trillion rescuing and/or taking over banks threatened with collapse by massive bad loans.
By Peter Boyle
The Howard government returns with very little political legitimacy. That's why PM John Howard is now desperately trying to refashion his image. He's changed! No more Mr Apologist-For-Pauline-Hanson. Now (after he has nearly
[This is abridged from a speech to the South Coast Labour Council by JOHN RAINFORD on August 12.] The Erie Wicker Defence Committee was formed at a public meeting held in this hall and attended by more than 60 people in April.
Those attending were
Rio Tinto sacks Hunter Valley miners
By James Vassilopoulos
Rio Tinto, the giant Anglo-Australian transnational, announced on October 20 the sacking of 115 coalminers at its Hunter Valley No. 1 open-cut mine. The retrenchments are aimed at
By Helen Jarvis
Three months after the July 26 elections, a new Cambodian government is yet to be formed. Despite participating in the National Assembly swearing-in ceremony on September 24, the majority of elected opposition members are now
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