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Victorian teachers offered sham agreement

Victorian teachers offered sham agreement BY NORRIAN RUNDLE & MICHAEL O'REILLY MELBOURNE — After seven years of working under no certified agreement on pay and conditions, Victorian teachers have finally been offered one — but it

Maintenance workers win after hard fight

GEELONG — After seven weeks on strike, the maintenance crew at the Godfrey Hirst carpet factory here have won a 15% pay increase. They have also won significant guarantees of financial security, should the company sell its maintenance arm to labour

'Stand With the Nurses'

BY GEOFF FRANCIS & PETER HICKS Tasmanian nurses are fighting back after the state Labor government, under Premier Jim Bacon, closed another hospital, costing 50 jobs. Labor health minister Judy Jackson has announced that she will personally cross

NTEU now an 'industry union'

BY JEREMY SMITH& DANIEL JARDINE MELBOURNE — "Finally I can say we are the industry union", said a triumphant Carolyn Allport, the president of the National Tertiary Education Industry Union, of a decision by the Australian Industrial Relations

NIGERIA: Shell faces civil charges over Saro-Wiwa murder

Oil giant Anglo-Dutch Shell in September lost its appeal to prevent a jury hearing a multi-million dollar civil suit in New York. The case, brought against Shell by Nigerian exiles, charges Shell with aiding and abetting the torture and murder of

S11: lessons for the feminist movement

COMMENT BY KAMALA EMANUEL The September 11 (S11) protests in Melbourne against the World Economic Forum (WEF) inspired many new activists and provided the movement for global justice with important lessons. The feminist movement should take these

On the box

Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Sunday, 9-11pm. Ph 9565 5522. Access News — Melbourne community TV,

Campaigning for the world's rainforests

BY JOHN SEED LISMORE — The Lismore-based Rainforest Information Centre (RIC) has been struggling to protect the world's rainforests since 1981. Formed by veterans of the 1979 actions to defend Terania Creek in northern NSW, RIC was the first

PALESTINE: Doctors condemn Israeli tactics

The nurse holds the X-ray up to the light, and the bullet that lodged in Mohammed Abu Faress' chest comes into focus, along with bright shards of shattered bone. "A few inches either way and he would have been dead", says Ahmed al-Jabali. Amid the

Greenhouse sceptics lose the plot

BY JIM GREEN The federal government is attempting to weaken support for measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions ahead of a United Nations climate change conference at the Hague in November. The conference is supposed to conclude negotiations

Labor, Democrats back government's 'renewable' energy sham

BY JIM GREEN Labor and the Democrats united with the Coalition to vote down Greens amendments to the Renewable Energy (Electricity) Bill in the Senate throughout the first week of October, even though the unamended bill will accelerate

PALESTINE: The 'Jerusalem intifada'

JERUSALEM — The following statement was issued on October 2 by the Union of Youth Activities Centers — Palestine, in response to the Israeli military's brutal attacks on Palestinians protesting against their repression in the occupied