By Graham Matthews
BRISBANE — The "net bet" fiasco, involving Queensland treasurer David Hamill and deputy speaker Bill D'Arcy, is threatening to throw the Queensland Labor government into crisis. Hamill has had to stand down pending the results
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Green Left Weekly forum — "Sink or swim? The unions' struggle against Reith's second wave". Wed Aug 25, 7pm, Resistance Centre, 1st fl, 34 Hindley St, City. Ph 8231
Indonesian unionist starts Australian tour
By Martin Iltis
MELBOURNE — An Australian tour by Indonesian unionists from the Indonesian National Front for Labour Struggles (FNPBI) is under way. Romawaty Sinaga, the head of the international
Queensland NTEU takes action
By Justin Randell and Adam Baker
BRISBANE — Academics, students and general staff have taken action for better enterprise bargaining agreements at the University of Queensland, Griffith University and Queensland
Education For Slavery or Liberation?By Jo WilliamsResistance Books, 199922pp, $2.95 Review by Kim Collins
Jo Williams explains that the education system is one of the capitalist system's central means of disseminating capitalist ideology. It
Gatton students defend their college
By Robyn Marshall
About 200 students from the agricultural college in the small town of Gatton, about an hour's drive from Brisbane, opposed a University of Queensland administration proposal to close the
By Jim Green
Pacific islanders are organising to stop the passage of plutonium reactor fuel from Europe to Japan through South Pacific waters. Two ships carrying mixed uranium-plutonium (MOX) fuel will pass through the Tasman Sea in late August or
Downer in Dili: what wasn't reported
By Sam King
DILI — The Australian government, forced to recognise that some form of political change in East Timor is inevitable whatever the result of the referendum, has been attempting to woo the
An insider's view of the Maritime Union
Until July 1998, BOB CARNEGIE was a branch organiser with the South Queensland branch of the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA). He was also a longtime member and former Queensland president of the Maritime
Thirty years of scientific research have established that the most powerful predictor of human disease is economic inequality. The main public health problem of our time is growing inequality of income, wealth and status. The New York Times reported
By John Rainford
Eric Wicker is a longtime trade unionist on the Wollongong waterfront who has been charged with a criminal offence — demanding property with menaces, or, to be blunt, extortion. Eric was the honorary president of the Port Kembla
Washington, Canberra hope to disarm Falintil
By Jon Land
Falintil, the armed wing of the East Timorese resistance, is under renewed pressure to disarm. Although Falintil has upheld a unilateral cease-fire and abided by security guidelines called
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