A major advance for working people this century was the reduction of the working day from 12 or more hours a day to eight. Yet in recent arbitration hearings in the Industrial Relations Commission the CRA-owned coal mining company, Novacoal, has been
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By Tim E. Stewart
DARWIN — Boosted by a conference of Australian Education Union delegates held here over the May Day long weekend, 1000 NT teachers rallied outside the NT parliament on May 10. The rally marked a turning point for the nine-month
With another gun rampage dominating the mass media, calls have been renewed for censorship of movies and videos depicting violence, with the claim that there is a link between violent images and subsequent anti-social behaviour.
Censorship of the
In promoting Windows 95, Microsoft mounted one of the most expensive advertising campaigns in US history. Microsoft failed to mention that some of the company's new software is packed by prison labour. This news comes from Paul Wright and Dan Pens,
The top pesticide companies all recorded increases in dollar sales in 1995, according to Agrow: World Crop Protection News. Global agrochemical sales rose by 11.9% to almost US$29 billion. Discounting inflation and currency factors, growth in real
Action alert
NEWCASTLE — The Tomago Sandbed Action Group urgently needs support. Sand mining company RZM has resumed bulldozing areas of old growth forest at Tomago sand beds north of Newcastle. Protesters are camped at the site and are
ACT government back-flip on pay deal
By Tim Gooden
CANBERRA â When ACT unions arrived at the Australian Industrial Relations Commission on May 9, they thought they were about to ratify across-government-services enterprise agreements. Instead
Latin America is becoming one of the fastest growing regions for agrochemical sales, according to "Crop Protection in Latin America", a January 1996 publication by Agrow Reports. Latin America accounts for approximately US$2.6 billion, which is 9% of
KIEN SEREY PHAL is director of the Cambodian Women's Development Association in Phnom Penh. She spoke to ROSANNA BARBERO about the problem of the trafficking of women. Question: When did this issue escalate?
Since 1989, there has been a dramatic
By Lisa Macdonald
Before the last federal election, the Labor Party and Coalition placed restoration of the Murray Darling river system at the centre of their environment policy packages. While environmentalists agree that their responses were
By Brendan Doyle
SYDNEY — Less than a week after the Port Arthur massacre, about 1500 people rallied in Hyde Park to call for stricter gun laws. The rally was organised by the Coalition for Gun Control. The mood was sombre, matched by the dark
"No free trade without free trade unions" was the theme of the 300-strong May day march on May 1 in Adelaide. Melanie Sjoberg reports that Greg Mead, author of The Royal Omission, told the crowd about the gross misrepresentation of Aboriginal culture
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