ANZ to sack hundreds
By James Vassilopoulos
Esanda, the financial services arm of the ANZ Bank, plans to sack 700 workers — a 40% of its work force.
Esanda has been undertaking an 18-month review to restructure and cut costs. Some of
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Student protest shuts down meeting
By Jo Williams
MELBOURNE — Sixty angry students occupied the Law building at Melbourne University on March 3 and shut down a university council meeting. The meeting was set to vote on the university's
By Adam Hanieh
On February 26, the Israeli government announced the future construction of 2600 housing units between East Jerusalem and Bethlehem on Mount Abu Ghneim. These units will be built for Jewish settlers as part of the continuing
Hindmarsh Island bridge inquiries
By Richard Owen
Environment, Resources and Development Committee Inquiry (1993)
An open inquiry that recommended: that the bridge be stopped and the ferry service upgraded; the development of a
By Tim Gooden
CANBERRA — A long-running dispute between the Transport Workers Union and concrete company Ready Mix came to a head recently when police were used to arrest union officials. According to Trevor Santi, ACT branch secretary of the
Bougainville pickets
@body intro =— "Withdraw the PNG army from Bougainville. Lift the blockade. No mercenaries to Bougainville. Open up Queensland hospitals for Bougainville victims of the war." These were the demands raised by an emergency
By Norm Dixon
Fighters of the Bougainville Revolutionary Army (BRA) are on "red alert" in preparation for attacks by South African mercenaries hired by the Papua New Guinea government. The pro-independence Bougainville Interim Government has
Closure of landmark Aboriginal Legal Service
By Jennifer Thompson
SYDNEY — The Aboriginal Legal Service has been shut down after 27 years of challenging the white-dominated legal system. Late last month, the Supreme Court refused an
Beaches for all people
Parks Victoria and the Marine Board, without consulting residents or beach users, want to ban swimming in up to half a kilometre of Seaford Beach on the Mornington Peninsula. This area is for the exclusive use of power
Ted Roach, 1909-1997
@box text intro = Ted Roach, secretary of the South Coast branch of the Waterside Workers Federation during the pig-iron dispute in 1938, passed away on February 25.
Born in Coledale, NSW, in 1909, Ted learned
How Suharto controls the elections
ldirect intervention in the "election" of party leaders
lpreventing campaigning outside the official period
lopposition party activities limited to big towns and cities
lall candidates are
Comment by Bernardo Zamora
The changes in El Salvador over the past five years are the result of 11 years of armed struggle led by the Frente Farabundo Martì para la Liberacion Nacional (FMLN) for liberation, progress and democracy. The
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