By Anne Pavy
PERTH — Eighty people have been blockading logging operations near the town of Manjimup, south west of here since July 1. Despite timber industry statements that there would be a moratorium on logging for three weeks, protesters
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Tenants resist Kennett cuts
By Margarita Windisch
MELBOURNE — On July 10 a vocal and vibrant crowd of 150, mostly tenants, marched to the Broadmeadows Department of Planning and Development to demand the right to keep tenants groups. The
Indonesia denies abuses in Timor
By Jon Land
Indonesian authorities have reacted angrily to a film by British journalist Max Stahl which documents a second massacre soon after the shootings at Santa Cruz cemetery in Dili on November 12,
AWU: A union too far away
By Cameron Parker
SYDNEY — "What sort of workers movement is it when the 20 superunions in Australia only represent one group in society — the employers?", asked Bob Fuge at a Rank and File Alliance public
Stonewall in New York
By Tom Flanagan
An estimated 1.2 million people marched through the streets of New York to rally in Central Park to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Stonewall riots on June 26. Rodney Croome, invited to New York
By Chris Albertyn
PIETERMARITZBURG, Natal — The new South African government of national unity has not only rejected strong and well-motivated calls for a commission of inquiry into the skulduggery surrounding the toxic waste importing
Meat inspectors' conditions for the chop?
By Steve Rogers
CANBERRA — Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service (AQIS) agency bargaining negotiations broke down on July 8 over the issue of conditions for meat inspectors and field-based
Students reject ALP's anti-VSU "solution"
By Alex Bainbridge
MELBOURNE — Federal Minister for Employment, Education and Training Simon Crean's proposal to bypass state-based Voluntary Student Unionism (VSU) legislation with a federal law
By Stephen Robson
PERTH — Former Labor Premier Brian Burke was found guilty on July 13 of four counts of cheating. Two days later he was sentenced to two years jail on each charge, to be served concurrently.
The charges arise out claims
Whaling clash on high seas
On July 6 the whale protection ship Whales Forever was rammed by the Norwegian Coastguard vessel Andenes, ripping open a section of the hull and damaging a fuel storage compartment according to reports from the Sea
Campaign against privatisation
By Maurice Sibelle
BRISBANE — A July 13 meeting of activists from trade unions and community groups decided to launch a campaign against the federal and state government's plans to privatise parts of the
Wondering
By Brandon Astor Jones
The GLW article entitled "Whose magazines?" (June 1) caught my eye. Kath Gelber, author of the "... and ain't i a woman?" column made some poignant comments on these magazines directed at women.
Some of
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