By Sean Malloy The federal government has amended the Social Security Act to stop unemployed people under the age of 21 from receiving a training allowance while attending CES courses. Michael Raper, coordinator of the Welfare Rights Centre
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NSW schools 'dodge homophobia issue' By Margaret El-Chami SYDNEY — The Gay and Lesbian Teachers and Students Association (GaLTaS) has responded angrily to NSW education minister Virginia Chadwick's refusal make to a homophobia unit
The ALP and the unions Do we need Steve Loosley with gritted teeth? Comment by Bob Lewis Phil Cleary's win in the Wills by-election has led to renewed discussion about the ALP, its relationship to the working class, and the attitude
Talking union A parliamentary inquiry into the status of women has recommended changes to the Affirmative Action Act, including tougher penalties for companies not complying with the act. At present, compliance is voluntary and the stiffest
By Steve Painter Canadian environmentalists are fighting plans by the New Brunswick provincial government to spray the region's forests with insecticide for the 40th year running. Opponents of the plan say this is probably the longest sustained
Barefoot Student Army Produced by Open Channel in association with Lyndal and Sophie Barry Screening on True Stories, ABC TV, at 8 p.m., Sunday, May 10 Reviewed by Anthony Thirlwall and Bronwen Beechey In March 1988, Burmese students took to
By Norm Dixon South Africa is facing a health crisis of massive proportions if the spread of AIDS is not bought under control. Estimates from three recent studies agree that a post-apartheid South Africa may find itself losing between 150,000
The Master and Margarita By Michail Bulgakov Translated by Michael Glenny Collins. $16.95 Reviewed by Mario Giorgetti Osip Mandelstam, a Soviet poet who died in prison in 1938, divided literature into that permitted and that written without
Timor book launched By Maurice Sibelle BRISBANE — "The Western world has a moral and political obligation to tell the truth," East Timor community representative Lucia Corte-real told a gathering here to launch a new book, East Timor: A
Not an American cowboy Trooper Bohan: The Shooting of Ben Hall, With Other Stories and Ballads By Colin Newsome Reviewed by Denis Kevans Good to meet an old bushman who's not an American cowboy. Colin Newsome was a shearers' delegate and
Comment by Scott MacWilliam There are currently two matters which draw media attention to politics in Papua New Guinea. The first is the revolt on Bougainville and the second the impending national election. Central to both is the political
Resistance Is Defence Mzwakhe Mbuli Virgin Earthworks through Larrikin Records Available on CD and cassette Reviewed by Norm Dixon Through the mid-'80s South African police were constantly embarrassed and infuriated by the phantom-like
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