By Tamara Desiatov
PERTH — After two long years of battling against victimisation and sexual discrimination in employment, Gail McIntosh and Heather Horne on April 21 were awarded $92,000 in compensation by the Equal Opportunity Commission.
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By Chow Wei Cheng
The government's long-awaited white paper, optimistically titled "Working Nation", has promised to cut unemployment to 5% by the turn of the century by implementing "reforms" in the labour market and in industry which will cost
Sydney: Pigsty 2000?
The Waste Crisis Network (WCN) warns that Sydney is at risk of becoming a "pigsty" by the year 2000. The latest issue of the Waste Crisis Quarterly, the network's newsletter, points out that Sydney's waste levels have risen
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — New powers to allow police and security guards to forcibly move on "trouble-makers" at Brisbane South Bank were a return to the "police state tactics of the Bjelke-Petersen era", Susan Price and Ana Kailis said on May
Thousands of women took part in Germany's first national women's strike on International Women's day. From Bochum, MARY MERKENICH reports on the activities of the German women's movement.
On May 28, 1993, the Constitutional Court, the highest
Here, slightly abridged, we reprint the text of the victory speech of South African president-elect Nelson Mandela, delivered in Johannesburg on May 2.
Fellow South Africans, this is indeed a joyous night. We are delighted by the overwhelming
No help to industry — Democrats
The white paper fails almost totally to mention, let alone address Australia's structural problems, according to the Democrats.
"It started life as an industry statement, but a sandwich shop got in the way
Socialists oppose $10 a week jobs
"The government's white paper does not create any permanent jobs. Instead, it hands billions of dollars to business. This is a direct transfer of social security payments into the pockets of employers", says
By Tom Kelly
The campaign to restore Tasmania's Lake Pedder to its original condition is gathering momentum in Australia and overseas.
The original Lake Pedder was a shallow glacial lake covering about 10 square kilometres and situated 320
If you bought this issue of Green Left Weekly on the street, outside a cinema or perhaps at a pub, chances are you bought it from a member of the Democratic Socialist Party or Resistance. The DSP and Resistance are currently undertaking a campaign to
By John Pilger
Last month Prime Minister Paul Keating launched a "trade and cultural promotion" with Indonesia. Surrounded by businessmen and representatives of the arts, Keating made an extraordinary speech that was praised in the Australian
By M. Bandung in Jakarta
and Max Lane
One hundred students, workers and farmers crowded into the offices of the Jakarta Legal Aid Institute (LBH) on May 2 for the launch of Indonesia's first campaigning democratic organisation, the People's
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