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Queenland teachers strike against cuts

By Maurice Sibelle BRISBANE — Over ten thousand teachers rallied across Queensland on August 5 to protest the cutbacks to the education budget by the state government. The 4000-strong meeting at Brisbane's Festival Hall, plus some 50 other

'Dolphin safe' — a PR exercise

By Pip Hinman On most supermarket shelves these days, tuna cans are marked as "dolphin safe". For the unsuspecting consumer, the purchase of this item is preferable to those that are unmarked, which consumers rightly suspect to be the product

Rallies commemorate Hiroshima Day

Rallies commemorate Hiroshima Day By Pip Hinman Nearly 50 years after the atomic bomb was dropped on the Hiroshima and Nagasaki, peace activists in Brisbane, Hobart and Sydney rallied to remember those who died and to demand an end to the

'Police state' powers in PNG

By Norm Dixon Claiming that tough measures are required to impose "law and order" in Papua New Guinea, Prime Minister Paias Wingti recently announced controversial measures which will severely restrict previously accepted human and civil

300 XXXX brewery workers face the sack

300 XXXX brewery workers face the sack By Bill Mason BRISBANE — In a drastic rationalisation of its XXXX brewing operation, Castlemaine Perkins Ltd, owned by Lion Nathan, is pushing through a plan to retrench 300 workers. Despite

Paying for enterprise bargaining

Paying for enterprise bargaining By Ray Fulcher MELBOURNE — A document circulated to DSS managers on July 19 advises them of the amount of salary dollars and ASL (Actual Staffing Level, i.e., jobs) they will be losing in order to pay

Bougainville peace initiative holds first meeting

By Max Lane The first meeting between representatives of the Bougainville Interim Government and the BRA with the North Solomons Peace Negotiating and Monitoring Committee (NSPNMC) concluded in Honiara on July 30. The committee includes

Aboriginal meeting demands justice on Mabo

By Peter Boyle An historic meeting of about 500 Aboriginal organisations and communities from around Australia met in Eva Valley in the Northern Territory between August 3-5 to work out a united response to the Mabo case. It firmly rejected

Breaking through the media's pro-Israel bias

By Mike Karajis SYDNEY — "The worst round of violence between Israel and Lebanon-based guerillas in 11 years continued unabated despite a drive by the US for a cease-fire. The fighting has killed more than 122 people." This was how the

Ortega scores US intervention threats

By Karen Lee Wald HAVANA — Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega renewed his calls for a sharp turn in Nicaraguan President Violeta Chamorro's economic policies and the establishment of a "government of national unity", in light of the recent

Gold: The colour of apartheid

Cutting Edge: The Colour of Gold SBS Television Screening Tuesday August 17, 7.30 p.m. (7 p.m. in Adelaide) Reviewed by Norm Dixon "We dig out the gold but we have never seen it with our own eyes. So if you tell us about the glitter of

... and ain't i a woman?: Children of the '70s

The turnout of over 500 women at the 7th annual gathering of the Network of Women Students in Australia (NOWSA), held at the University of Queensland last month, was the biggest attendance ever for this national gathering of campus-based