By Rob Miller
While the technical and further education system has always tried to meet the skill needs of industry, it has balanced this role with a commitment to the social and educational needs of the wider community. In the past few years,
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By Anthony Benbow
PERTH — Flickering lights normally cause most word processor users to break into a sweat, fearing imminent loss of power and their document. However, it was a source of hope for this correspondent last week — an indication
Abortion rights under attack — again!Abortion rights under attack — again!
In late March the Queensland parliament passed an amendment to the criminal code proposed by independent MP Liz Cunningham. The amendment to section 313, which
Ipswich protest spoils Hanson's party
By Bill Mason
IPSWICH — Some 300 protesters, chanting "Hi, ho, hi, ho, Pauline Hanson's got to go" and waving anti-racist placards and banners, on April 12 picketed a dinner launching independent
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Access News — Melbourne
By Ben Reid and Jo Williams
MELBOURNE — Members of the National Tertiary Education and Industry Union (NTEU) at Melbourne University on April 9 voted by a narrow margin to accept an administration offer in the current round of enterprise
Library campaign: three rallies and a partial victory
By Alex Bainbridge and Rebecca Hensley
NEWCASTLE — On April 11, Newcastle University Council agreed to review its decision to close the Huxley Library, after hundreds of students
By Amanda Sully and Mat Hines
HOBART — The environment movement has deplored the rafting company Peregrine Adventures' use of the Mt McCall track in Tasmania's west. Contradicting the world heritage management plan, the federal government has
By Sarah Peart
On March 24, seven East Timorese youth were shot dead and 42 wounded, four severely, during a peaceful demonstration inside the Mahkota Hotel in Dili. The 200-strong rally of students from the University of East Timor had been
By Sam Wainwright
PARIS — It is certainly not exaggeration or scaremongering to call the National Front (FN) fascist. Of course, given France's experience of Nazi occupation, the FN hotly rejects the label. But its leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen,
China plans to shrink state sector further
The leaders of the Communist Party of China have arrived at a "unified view" on further reducing the weight of the state sector in the economy, according to Fan Hengshan, a senior official of China's
Indonesians to boycott rigged elections
By Max Lane
The militant section of the Indonesian pro-democracy movement has launched a campaign to galvanise the general sentiment to boycott the May 29 general elections into an active movement to
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