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By Ian Powell While on a recent visit to England it was interesting, both as a parent and as a former teachers' union official, to observe developments in the education service after 15 years of Thatcherism. In the all-too-brief 10 days I was there,
By Brandon Astor Jones "We hear talk from elected officials these days about contracts, compacts, and covenants, about obligation and opportunity. Seldom ... do we see any discussion of race [or] any acknowledgment that race remains a searing issue
When is equal pay not equal pay? When you fiddle the figures, of course. Debates around equal pay for women have been raging since the principle of equal pay for work of equal value was endorsed by the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration
I climbed into the taxi and then noticed the windscreen was extensively cracked on my side. The driver seemed pretty cool. He owned the cab, and No. It wasn't dangerous yet. The crack extended each day about a centimetre, but there was still plenty
By Roni Ben Efrat I recently came across a special advertising supplement of the daily Ha'Aretz entitled "Export 95". The articles effuse optimism, painting a picture of future growth in language not entirely free of propaganda. A close look
The "deferred forestry assessment" process (DFA) has been an abject failure. Conceived after the Bedall woodchip debacle last year, with the stated aim of moving towards a world class forest reserve system in Australia, the process has been totally
By Chris Spindler SYDNEY — The Carr Labor government's first seven months in NSW have been marked by broken promises, funding cuts to social services and a clear policy bias towards big business, all setting the tone for its first budget, on
By colin Hesse SYDNEY — One word ... WE! Pete Seeger and friends is a new play about the life and singing of Pete Seeger and the times that shaped the music of Seeger and his contemporaries. It ranges over the end of the Great Depression, the Cold
By John Nebauer In 1944, Fred Paterson was elected as the member for Bowen in the Queensland parliament. He is the only communist to have held a state or federal parliamentary seat in Australia. Paterson was born at the Gladstone Meatworks boarding
By Nick Everett BRISBANE Fifty people attended a September 30 dinner, organised by Aksi (Indonesia Solidarity Action), to raise funds for East Timor. The event, which commemorated the bloody 1965 coup which brought to power Indonesia's New Order,
By Freya Pinney WOLLONGONG — On October 26 women will take to the streets for the first time here to protest against violence against women in the Illawarra. For years women from Wollongong have been travelling to Sydney to participate in the
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