BY MATTHEW EGAN
LISMORE — Students and staff at Southern Cross University (SCU) were angered to learn their vice-chancellor, Professor John Rickard, was paid a staggering $460,000 in 2002. According to the July 21 Sydney Morning Herald, this was
547
BY SAM WAINWRIGHT
PERTH — In the June Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) election, two of the three positions in the Western Australian branch were won by the Rank and File ticket, which called for a return to democratic and militant unionism.
BY DAVE RENTON
HARARE — The failure of the June's mass stayaway, called by the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), has hardly made life easier for activists. The government of President Robert Mugabe has unleashed gangs of young
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Victorian Premier Steve Bracks' Labor government is putting pressure on non-governmental community services organisations to make "productivity savings" in order to enable annual cuts to the Department of Human Services (DHS) budget over the next
BY PHILIP FERGUSON
CHRISTCHURCH — New Zealand's Labour government has rushed through new immigration restrictions. The Immigration Amendment Bill and Immigration Amendment Bill (No. 2) were introduced into parliament on the evening of July 1
BY MELANIE SJOBERG
SYDNEY — NSW Premier Bob Carr's Labor government calls its plan to cut 1000 jobs in the Department of Education and Training (DET) "lifelong and learning". However, public education needs more, not less, jobs. Students need
Dependant heroin users (NSW): more than 50,000
Opiate (eg, heroin) overdose deaths:
Australia-wide in 1992: 327 (aged 15-44).
Australia-wide in 1998: 700+ (aged 15-44)
Percentage of drug users with hep C:50-70%
Cost of drug consumption,
BY DALE MILLS
SYDNEY — The final report on the medically supervised injecting centre in the red-light district of Kings Cross has approved its continuation. It was the English-speaking world's first state-approved illegal-drug injecting centre.
BY STEPHEN GARVEY
MELBOURNE — On July 22, hundreds of workers at ACI workplaces across the country stopped work in response to the lockout of 77 ACI Mould Manufacturing workers in Box Hill.
The purpose of the stoppage was to support the
BY NICK EVERETT
SYDNEY — A special meeting of the Walk Against the War Coalition, the group which organised the 500,000-strong February 16 anti-war rally, will be held to decide the coalition's future. The meeting will be on August 18.
Two of
BY NICK EVERETT
SYDNEY — A rally to save Medicare was held outside NSW Parliament House on July 22, where a Senate committee was commencing its hearings on the federal government's changes to Medicare. Around 150 people attended.
Organised by
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