By Pat Brewer
CANBERRA — A seminar held here on September 8 heard two very different views on how unions should prepare to meet the changes proposed in the Workplace Relations Bill currently before parliament. Craig Simmons, ACT organiser with
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PETI LAFANAMA is chairperson of the recently formed PNG Watch-Council for Socio-Economic Justice, a coalition of non-government organisations and grassroots activist groups opposed to the World Bank and PNG government's structural adjustment program.
On September 20, the US Defense Department released documents showing that from 1982 to 1991 the US Army School of the Americas (SOA) trained Latin American military officers with US Army intelligence manuals advocating the blackmail, torture and
By Peter Boyle
Australian Labor Party in governments in the 1980s and 1990s — state or federal — were decidedly conservative. Like all other old social democratic parties, the ALP has moved to the right and adopted the capitalists' neo-liberal
Orchids in the MoonlightBy Carlos FuentesDirected by Jose de KostaTheatre XThe Pilgrim Theatre, until October 27Reviewed by Neville Spencer Orchids in the Moonlight (Orquídeas a la Luz de la Luna) is the third play written by Carlos Fuentes,
By Jorge Andres
On October 9, Aboriginal Australia was granted 12.4 hectares of its stolen land, enough for dignity but hardly a fair swap. This was the first recognition of native title in mainland Australia. If only we could say "Australia is not
Lift workers make headway with wage claim
By Sue Brooke
MELBOURNE — Workers in the lift industry have joined the campaign by construction workers against the federal government's tax on fares and travel. The current phase of the campaign is to
By Malik Miah
"It's better to vote for something you want and not get it, than to vote for something you don't want, and get it." — Eugene V. Debs, turn of the century labour and socialist leader who was a candidate for president of the United
By Stephen Marks
MANAGUA — In the last weeks of the election campaign, a barrage of slanders has been launched against the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) and its presidential candidate, Daniel Ortega. Leading this effort has been the
Monarchy in Australia
by Johnny 'Rotten' Howard with Sid Fisher
I yama monarchist
Economic rationalist
I know what I want and how to get it
I got a mandate to DESTROY!
Oh, I
wanna be
MONARCHY!
Abos go home
tear down their pleasure
Sydney University elections
By Sarah Peart
In elections at Sydney University, the presidential position has been won by Katrina Curry, candidate for Left Alliance and the Left Caucus. However, at the beginning of counting, Sholto Macpherson (who
WA group opposes anti-gay discrimination
By Leon Harrison
PERTH — In response to the failure of same-sex amendments to equal opportunity legislation to be put to state parliament, a new group called Queer Radical has been formed. The group held
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