Union dissent delays work for the dole
Members of the teachers' union, the Australian Education Union, in Canberra "simply weren't prepared to go ahead with work for the dole as it was designed", Clive Haggar, president of the AEU's ACT branch,
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Indonesian, East Timorese militants tour
By ROHAN JOSEY
BRISBANE — More than 130 people, some who travelled from as far away as Lismore and Toowoomba, packed the Queensland Council of Unions auditorium on April 11 to hear the Budiman Sujatmiko,
UNITED STATES: 16 years for pinching a chocolate
According to an April 5 report on ABC radio, mandatory sentencing laws in the US state of Texas resulted in a man being jailed for 16 years for stealing a Snickers chocolate bar. Listeners to the AM
Tax office pay dispute
BY CHRIS SLEE
The tax section council of the Community and Public Sector Union has recommended that CPSU members in the Australian Tax Office reject management's draft agency agreement. Management is offering a 4% a year
Speaks volumes already
Light snow falls and renews the paths we walk,
grey skies soften raw, wintry day with bright light
my beard freezes in clumps of ice along the way ...
I call puppy Bella: Come! She loves to play,
I tell
Young people rally against 'legalised racism'
Hundreds of secondary students walked out of school last week to protest the racist policies of the federal government, in particular its refusal to repeal mandatory sentencing laws in Western Australia
BY ANDY GIANNIOTIS
MOSS VALE, NSW — Rather than renegotiate a collective agreement that has been in place for the last 20 years, Joy Mining Machinery has locked out 71 workers. Workers walked off the job on March 31 in protest against the company
NOUMEA — Yann Celene Uregei, leader of the United Kanak Liberation Front/People's Congress (FULK/CP), died following a long illness, in his home in the suburbs of New Caledonia/Kanaky on April 7. "Old Yann", as he was respectfully known, had
Education should be GST-free
BY PHILIPPA STANFORD
ADELAIDE — The Australian Education Union's South Australian branch president, John Gregory, has called for all aspects of education to be totally exempt from the goods and services tax.
Prime suspects
To all men in Wee Waa: if you're innocent you've got nothing to worry about. How many men can say that! Just as soon as the results come back from the lab, you'll be among the fortunate few in Australia who we know did not bash and
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