South Africa is "not ready" for the introduction of a 40-hour week, African National Congress labour minister Membathisi Mdladlana declared on October 17. Mdladlana was commenting on a feasibility study on reducing the current 45-hour working week.
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On October 15, more than 130 Solomon Islanders — representing the rival militia of the Malaita Eagle Force and Guadalcanal's Isatabu Freedom Movement, as well as the central Solomon Islands government and the Malaita and Guadalcanal provincial
While the rest of the world is racking its brains trying to figure out why the world's currencies are plummeting against the US dollar, the United States elite is using the strong greenback to set in concrete its dominance of the world economy.
The
BY BRONWEN BEECHEY
ADELAIDE — South Australian TAB workers took industrial action for the first time on October 14, shutting down all TAB outlets and phone betting, and picketing the board's headquarters to oppose a government plan to sell the
Switching on the radio, I heard a man's despairing voice: "I tried to quit, I tried to stop, but I realised I couldn't do it on my own. I needed help."
It was part of the "Men's Help-line" campaign, a newly funded project of the Western Australian
BY BRONWEN BEECHEY
ADELAIDE — One hundred and twenty steelworkers at BHP's Whyalla plant walked off the job on October 17, after the company refused to secure their entitlements. The workers, all members of the Australian Manufacturing Workers
BY BRONWEN BEECHEY
ADELAIDE — The South Australian Labor Party's annual convention on October 13 departed from tradition in two ways, both of which sought to reassure big business that the party will cooperate if it wins the next election.
The
The formula for United States media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is simple: Report on the latest developments in the fragile "peace process". Depict US officials as honest brokers in the negotiations. Emphasise the need for restraint
BY ANTHEA STUTTER & KAMALA EMANUEL
HOBART — A lively evening rally and march was held on the Salamanca Lawns on October 13 as part of the World March of Women 2000. Combining with the annual Reclaim the Night march, the action was initiated to
1917: Britain captured Palestine from Ottoman empire. Balfour Declaration commits the British government to an independent Jewish state in Palestine.
1936-39: Palestinian Arab uprising against British rule.
1947: UN voted to partition Palestine
While little has been revealed about the discussions during the first formal round of negotiations between the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) and Australia on the future of the Timor Gap Treaty, the Australian
Anger is rising at the rising cost of South Africa's massive rearmament program.
The National Assembly's standing committee on public accounts learned on October 11 that the cost of the program — budgeted at 30 billion rand (US$4.2 billion) in
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