By Tim E. Stewart DARWIN — Stepping up a six-month long dispute with the Australian Education Union, the NT government last week began a media campaign which included education minister Steve Hatton describing union representatives as "terrorists".
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By Merima Trbojevich From the moment he departed, leaving everything he had, he's become just one more number on a long list of refugees. He's become a number which has neither colour nor aroma, goodness nor malice, fault nor virtue — a number
By Frank Gollan SYDNEY: Damned if you do and damned if you don't. That sums up the dilemma for Australian public service workers in the current federal elections. For the past 13 years, public servants have voted in their majority for Labor, fearful
Polls indicate that the Tasmanian election on February 24 is likely to result in a hung parliament, with the Tasmanian Greens holding the balance of power. Green Left Weekly's IGGY KIM spoke to member for Denison and Greens spokesperson PEG PUTT
By Amy Phillips SYDNEY — Westpac workers staged stop-work meetings on February 15 in protest at the bank's refusal to meet the Finance Sector Union's wage claim of 12% over 18 months. These actions launched a national campaign of rolling stoppages.
Shining The triolet, as a poetic form, is French in origin; it is composed of eight lines, only two of which rhyme. The composition-scheme is as follows: A B a A a b A B (a capital letter represents a repeated line). It would seem that the
By Bill Mason BRISBANE — Queensland Premier Wayne Goss will resign on February 19, opening the way for a new ALP leader as the Labor government's six-year reign ends. A new Coalition government under National Party leader Rob Borbidge will take
More women in parliament? Just over six months since its formation, the Australian Women's Party is standing 17 candidates in the federal election. It is fielding 12 Senate candidates in five states (Qld, NSW, WA, SA and Tas), four House of
Video Fool For LoveDirected by Robert GibsonProduced by George Miller and Doug MitchellOpens March 28 at the Chauvel Cinema, Paddington, Sydney with other states to followReviewed by Margaret Allan "I still don't know whether he is the bravest man I
Palm Sunday ADELAIDE — On February 12, the Palm Sunday Peace Walk Committee met for the first time to discuss the themes and course of the event. The committee will meet at the Pilgrim Church at 12 Flinders Street each Monday at 7pm, until Palm
The explosion shook the whole house. My back hunched and shoulders shot up to my ears, retracting my head like a startled tortoise. John jumped off his chair and, crouching, ran across the room and turned off the light. "What the hell was that?" We
A poll released by the Washington International Energy Group earlier this month shows the lowest recorded levels of support among utility executives for the development of new nuclear power plants, and uncertainty about the economics and relicensing
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