BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — Feminists and socialists have opposed the appointment of a male women's officer at Tasmania University's Launceston campus, calling it a step backwards for women.
"Whichever way you look at it, having a man as
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As a contribution to a big picture still being put together in countless publications, videos and photo essays, S11 Spring has its place. However, there is little analysis of what made S11 a success.
BY ANTHONY BENBOW
PERTH — Before the 1998 federal election, Western Australian Liberal Premier Richard Court described the One Nation party as having "racist policies which have no place in the Australian political system". One Nation was placed
BY JIM GREEN
A Senate inquiry into the plan for a new nuclear research reactor in Sydney has heard evidence about a string of problems and scandals surrounding the project.
The federal government and the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology
The Art for a Change web site (<http://www.primenet.com/~mvallen>) has just published an emergency Palestine solidarity issue that documents art activism in support of a just and lasting peace between the Palestinian and Israeli people.
BY DANIEL KELLY
SYDNEY — The Central New South Wales branch of the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA)is taking legal action against Patrick Stevedores over the work conditions of straddle operators at the company's Port Botany container terminal.
Anger at the war unleashed against the Palestinians by Israel drew members of the Palestinian community to a special forum organised by Green Left Weekly in Adelaide on November 1.
John Nebauer reports that the forum featured a talk by Leslie
The people of Iraq live under unbearable circumstances. Since Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath regime seized power, it has engaged in ruthless repression and led the country into economic crisis.
The living conditions of the working class, already bad due
BY JEREMY SMITH
BALLARAT — When I heard of plans for an action outside the World Economic Forum summit on September 11, I was anxious to find a way for unionists and activists in Ballarat and regional Victoria to be a part of the event.
It also
LONDON — London-based activist group Oztudak, the Freedom Prisoners Solidarity Committee, has launched a campaign against the Turkish government's use of isolation cells, in particularly the infamous "coffin cells" introduced by the Turkish
BY STEVE SHEPHERD
MELBOURNE — For anyone who's ever wondered what happens to all the toxic waste produced by the global corporations operating in Australia, there is a disturbing answer.
It seems a substantial proportion is simply being dumped
BY BEA BREAR
HOBART — "No more woodchips!" was the chant arising from 700 protesters outside an international "environment" conference here last week.
The Forest Certification Conference, organised by the Forest Industries Association of
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