Telstra walks out of negotiations
By Tim E. Stewart
In an effort to secure an enterprise agreement without union endorsement, Telstra management walked out of negotiations with unions on November 5. The following week, management express-posted
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By Boris Kagarlitsky and Renfrey Clarke
In the East there is a proverb: "Don't brag when you're on your way to war". Russian President Boris Yeltsin's generals have obviously never come across this saying. They still have not won a major battle in
By Kate Carr
"Identity politics" emerged from British and US feminism towards the end of the 1970s. It developed in reaction to the failure of liberal feminism to adequately incorporate or acknowledge the differing experiences and demands of women
East Timor benefit
CANBERRA — On November 6, Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor (ASIET) and the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union organised a benefit for East Timor at the University of Canberra bar. The folk-rock
Networker: Why prosecute Microsoft?
Why is the US Justice Department engaged in a court battle with Microsoft Corporation, the country's most highly valued company? On November 3, Judge Thomas Jackson attacked Microsoft's conduct toward Netscape,
US blockade aids Iraqi regime
FARIS MAHMOOD, a member of the politburo of the Workers Communist Party of Iraq (WCPI) is in Australia until early next year. He spoke to Green Left Weekly's PAUL BENEDEK. In Iraqi-occupied Kurdistan (in the north),
East Timor: defeat or victory for the left?
By Allen Myers
"John Passant's Requiem for the Left" is the title of a peculiar article in the November issue of Workers Online, the internet magazine of the NSW Labor Council. Passant, who describes
By Sean Healy
The republic was crushingly defeated on November 6; 55% of the electorate voted "no", and not a single state approved it. The preamble was rejected by 61% of voters. The biggest losers are the "official", minimalist republicans —
By Natalie Zirngast
The Australian Broadcasting Authority (ABA) inquiry into the "cash for comments" scandal involving 2UE's shock jocks John Laws and Alan Jones has the rest of the Australian media running scared. Alan Kohler commented in the
SA union secretary resigns
By Bronwen Beechey
ADELAIDE — Paul Noack resigned as the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) South Australian branch secretary on October 29. Noack's resignation followed a meeting of the AMWU's federal
Budiman Sujatmiko likely to be freed soon
By Max Lane
The Indonesian People's Representative Council (DPR) is likely to recommend the release of at least 44 political prisoners, including People's Democratic Party (PRD) chairperson Budiman
Government slashes funding to green groups
By Jim Green
On November 8, the federal government announced another round of funding cuts to environment groups. The government's funding program, which totals $1.65 million, will now include grants to
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