600 jobs saved in SA?
By Melanie Sjoberg
ADELAIDE — In the lead-up to the South Australian budget, Premier Lyn Arnold announced that previously projected cuts of 600 jobs in the public sector would not go ahead. The content of the budget,
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By John Queripel
From the highland flings of Scotland to the dance of East Timor, from the strident sounds of protest folk to the harmonies of a cappella: they will all be there at the Newcastle and Hunter Valley Folk Festival to be held at
Brisbane's Green It Up
By Lynda Hansen
BRISBANE — What do you get when you mix healthy politics, live music, poetry and Guinness? It's called Green It Up and it happens every Thursday Night at the Brisbane Celtic Club.
Green It Up is
By Wendy Robertson
The Yorta Yorta are the first Victorian Koori group to lodge a land rights claim following the 1992 Mabo decision. The claim is for areas of land along what is now the Victorian-NSW border which are part of their traditional
Call to protect Jervis Bay
By Bruce Threlfo
SYDNEY — A special peak councils meeting of Australia's major environmental organisations on August 25 called upon the federal and NSW governments to invoke the fullest degree of environmental
Inessa Armand: Revolutionary and feminist
By R.C. Elwood
Cambridge University Press, 1992. 304 pp. $99 hardback.
Reviewed by Claudine Holt
When Inessa Armand's name is mentioned, it is usually in connection with that of Vladimir Lenin —
Rally calls for action on Brisbane River
By Jim McIlroy
BRISBANE — Queensland Greens convener Drew Hutton and Australian Littoral Society executive officer Di Tarte expressed some optimism about the future of the Brisbane River, following
By Paul Oboohov
SYDNEY — Lion Nathan Corporation, owner of Toohey's Breweries, has been able to sack 192 workers and conduct a massive restructuring of its plant at Lidcombe following the collapse of strike action at the plant.
The Liquor
By Stephen Robson
PERTH — The case of Helen Carr, brought to public attention by Jim Scott, the Greens (WA) member for South Metropolitan, in the Legislative Council on August 18, seems to indicate that little protection exists for individuals
By Barry Healy
SYDNEY — The ACTU urgently needs to change direction, a September 1 public meeting was told. The meeting, called by the Rank and File Alliance and attended by about 80 people, coincided with the ACTU congress and was organised
NEFA peace plan launched
By Pip Hinman
SYDNEY — A proposal to resolve the decade-long forest dispute in north-east NSW was launched by the North East Forest Alliance on August 25. The proposal meets with the obligations of the
Cuts to ethnic broadcasting
By Geoff Spencer
MELBOURNE — More than 400 people attended a public meeting on August 16 organised by radio stations 3ZZZ, 3CR and 3YYR. The meeting, at Trades Hall, was called to condemn a 25% cut in federal
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