By Maurice Sibelle
MELBOURNE — Students at Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE won a partial victory in their campaign to restore funding to their Student Union at an Institute Council meeting on October 28. The council, the governing body at
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By Brendan O'Reilly
The Cup sucks. This year I just couldn't get happy about it, being the anniversary of someone's suicide. The most unread, underrated Frank Hardy novel has got to be The Four Legged Lottery. It dealt with what he called
By Marina Cameron
On November 9, supporters of a free East Timor will march in cities around Australia to commemorate the anniversary of the massacre by Indonesian troops of a peaceful demonstration in Dili, East Timor, on November 12, 1991.
By Joan Lockwood Here are some ideas, expressed by two different people, from two different hemispheres, 70 years apart. Pauline Hanson in her inaugural speech to parliament, September 10, 1996: "I am fed up to the back teeth, with inequalities that
By Melanie Sjoberg and Jennifer Thompson
The appalling alliance between the small business-minded Democrats and the free marketeer Liberals will bring significant changes to working conditions and ordinary people's ability to organise. The
Jenny Dodd
7/10/50 — 4/10/96
Jenny Dodd died at home on October 4 after a long fight with cancer.
Jenny's life was devoted to working with and helping others. Within a week of escaping to a women's refuge out of a difficult marriage many
Love from a short distanceVarious artistsShock RecordsReviewed by Nick Fredman The range of artists who contributed to this excellent compilation is an example of the growing support for the East Timorese people's struggle for self determination.
Canadian auto strike and occupation show the way
The Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) forced General Motors to accept a favourable contract on October 22 after a three-week strike during which workers took over a plant in Oshawa, Ontario. "Like a
Land rights
Th Aboriginal Land Rights controversy could so easily be resolved, and in the process the word "Rent" could be used to replace words like "Tax" and "taxation" in some areas.
Let us agree that land titles were not extinguished: that
Man-made Creutzfeldt-Jakob and mad cow disease
By Lynette J. Dumble
Revelations in Britain have brought a new dimension to the incurable brain infections, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in
By Allen Myers
Do unto others as they do unto others. Especially when the first others are the US government. This is evidently the sound reasoning of two Canadian Liberal MPs, John Godfrey and Peter Milliken. Godfrey and Milliken, like a great
How important is an independent, progressive newspaper to you?
For months now the establishment media has been giving Hanson and her fellow racists almost limitless coverage, reporting each bigoted statement with glee in the knowledge that stirring
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