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Doctors impose bans and rolling stoppages

Doctors impose bans and rolling stoppages By Kamala Emanuel NEWCASTLE — Up to 2000 doctors from NSW's public hospitals walked off the job to attend stop-work meetings on November 6. The meetings were called by the Public Service Association

Boycott Boral

Adam Burling Boral is the second largest hardwood eucalypt woodchip exporter in the world, exporting 859,000 tonnes per annum from Tasmania and licensed to export up to 453,600 tonnes from NSW. In NSW, Boral owns 60% of timber concessions, 75% in

Loose cannons

Indonesians under the bed The Australian Candidate Study (conducted by academics at the ANU, UNSW and UQ), which surveyed 435 Coalition, Labor, Democrat and Green candidates in the last federal election (including 105 who now have seats in

Last chance for a national treasure

By John Fraser Imagine a forest scene of such beauty it could be the cover of a fantasy novel. Picture trees so wide that a group of five people standing with their arms stretched and their hands linked could not form a complete circle around the

Rally to save St George campus

By Natasha Simons SYDNEY — Some 700 students and staff from the St George campus of the University of New South Wales (UNSW), plus members of the local community, attended a spirited rally at Oatley on November 7. Dotted with placards proclaiming

Brisbane coalition calls national day of action

After organising a very successful rally of 5000 people on November 2, the Brisbane Anti-Racist Campaign (ARC) has called for a national day of action against racism on November 23. Roberto Jorquera told Green Left Weekly that the call came from

Looking out: Will you rebel?

Will you rebel? "It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us." — Albert Camus Consider the following list citing mistakes that have been made by an entire nation mired in the self-righteous and pretentious pit

Racism and the Melbourne Cup

Racism and the Melbourne Cup By Jorge Andres Australian history likes to recall its underdogs and battlers. Everyone seems to recall the game that Collingwood won against all odds, the horse that came from nowhere and the painter on the Harbour

ALP wins another union

The defeat of the Bill Ethel leadership in the elections of the Western Australian branch of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union is a blow to the already too small left wing in the union officialdom. The prize goes to the Labor Party,

University of Melbourne staff gear up for a fight

By Jeremy Smith MELBOURNE — Members of the National Tertiary Education and Industry Union at the University of Melbourne have resolved to resist management's attacks. Emerging out of negotiations with the university on October 25, the NTEU Single

and ain't i a woman?: Chipping away at women's rights

There was little surprise in the announcement on October 29 that the Affirmative Action Agency's already limited ability to tackle discrimination in employment and education was to be weakened even further. The agency, which implements the 1986

Conference on East Timor attacked

By Max Lane On November 9, the second Asia Pacific Conference on East Timor (APCET II) opened in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in defiance of calls by the Malaysian government not to proceed. On November 7, the government took its first action to prevent