By Annette Wade
MELBOURNE — Since the federal election, the Commonwealth Department of Housing and Regional Development has been totally abolished. Public housing and the Crisis Accommodation Program (CAP) have been moved to the Department of
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By Nikki Ulasowski
Wollongong — More than 200 members of the National Tertiary Education and Industry Union (NTEU) and students from Wollongong University met last week to discuss industrial action and the continuing campaign for a 15% pay rise.
By Anthony Benbow and Virginia Brown
PERTH — The scarlet-coloured leaflet advertised the Fremantle branch of the Australian Labor Party meeting as "Re-visioning Labor". It was to assess the federal election result and discuss where to go to next.
Repeal abortion laws
Within the next few months, the woman involved in the medical negligence case (CES vs Superclinics) will have to argue the legality of abortion in NSW to the High Court. The outcome could have implications nationally for a
His fine wit
Give or take a few months, it is the 130th anniversary of the death of Thomas Love Peacock. B'gad! you exclaim, has he been gone from us for that long a time?
Of course there's a chance, I grant, that among you there could be some
Trammit! — A time tramalogue for radio. Why does Melbourne still have trams? Why did Sydney — "the second largest network in the British Empire" — do away with trams in the 1950s? And why are cities like Los Angeles and Sydney discussing
By Conor Twyford
WELLINGTON — An election as early as September is now on the cards in New Zealand following the resignation on April 23 of the New Zealand First MP for Hawkes Bay, Michael Laws. Laws, who left the National Party in March to join
By Richard Horsey
SLORC, the military junta which rules Burma, is well known as one of the most repressive regimes on the planet. Otherwise staid diplomats have used terms such as "hydra-headed" and "barbaric" to describe SLORC's recent behaviour.
By Eva Cheng
Washington has taken three significant steps over the last two months to reject peace and consolidate its domination in east Asia. In early April, the US rejected North Korea's call to replace its 43-year-old armistice — with North
By Stephen Marks
MONTEVIDEO — It's easy to find the alternative media in Uruguay. Sidewalk kiosks in the capital display a wide variety of progressive magazines and newspapers which provide a refreshing alternative to the "infotainment" produced
CPSU activist Ben Courtice writes from Hobart that 153 CPSU members working in the Australian Public Service attended a meeting last week to discuss plans to fight cuts to the APS. The meeting discussed the motion from the National Executive and an
By Natasha Simons
Attacks on jobs, wages and welfare are coming thick and fast under the Howard government, the latest being an attempt to get more young homeless people off social security benefits. On May 1, the federal government announced the
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