BY NICK FREDMAN
LISMORE — A major reason for the protracted enterprise bargaining dispute at Southern Cross University is extravagance by the institution's executives, according to damning evidence presented at a mass meeting called by the
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BY LALITHA CHELLIAH
MELBOURNE — The lesbian and gay community here organised a conference on August 27 to examine their reproductive rights and discuss reproductive law.
Dr Ruth McNair runs the Carlton clinic, which specialises in providing
BY ANA KAILIS
PERTH — Members of the Australian Education Union (AEU) WA branch packed the Entertainment Centre on September 1 to endorse an escalation of the campaign for better wages and adequate funding for WA's schools and TAFEs.
The AEU
BY JON LAND
SYDNEY — Unlike most of the media coverage commemorating the first anniversary of East Timor's vote for independence, a day-long seminar organised by the Australia East Timor Association held at the Leichhardt Town Hall on August 30
BY BRONWEN BEECHEY
ADELAIDE — The United Trades and Labor Council of South Australia is considering turning its traditional Labor Day march, on September 29, into a strike following the refusal of the state Liberal government to contribute to a
SYDNEY South Sydney Council is evicting squatters in empty council
buildings at 147-159 Broadway, near Glebe. The council had planned to evict
the squatters on August 28, but public support and media attention forced
a delay. The
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Cuban President Fidel Castro has requested a visa to head Cuba's delegation to the United Nations' Millennium Summit in New York on September 6-7. This follows the US government's refusal last week of a visa application from Ricardo Alarcon, leader
DILI — Members of Timorese Socialist Party (PST) around East Timor have been occupying buildings left by the Indonesian government in order to establish offices for their work with the grassroots.
In order to claim right to use empty buildings,
BY SUE BOLAND
Anglo-Australian company Rio Tinto, the world's largest mining company, has more than 60 operations in 40 countries. Antarctica is the only continent that has escaped its ravages.
In every continent where Rio Tinto operates the
BY NORM DIXON
The sheer quantity of rhetoric about promoting the noble ideals of democracy, human rights and government transparency notwithstanding, US President Bill Clinton's three-day visit to Nigeria, which began on August 26, was all about
REVIEW BY JEREMY SMITH
Nations Without States: Political Communities in a Global AgeBy Montserrat GuibernauSt Leonards NSW: Allen and Unwin, 1999. $43.91 (pb)
Nations Without States tackles an area that few others have been willing to touch: a
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