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In Melbourne this week

In Melbourne this week By Bronwen Beechey St Kilda Film Festival Every year the St Kilda Film Festival presents an extraordinarily diverse program of new Australian short films and videos, made by students at film and TV schools and

Essential services act planned for WA

By Andrew Watson PERTH — West Australian Liberal Premier Richard Court has signalled a Jeff Kennett style of approach to industrial relations, aiming to introduce new anti-union legislation when parliament sits in May. The proposed

Union deal saves train lines but may cost jobs

Union deal saves train lines but may cost jobs By Alex Cooper MELBOURNE — A deal struck between transport minister Alan Brown and rail unions has saved a number of rail services throughout Victoria, but about 5500 jobs will be shed in

Rally against police violence

Rally against police violence By Alex Cooper MELBOURNE — Wearing a variety of masks, a small group of people demonstrated outside the South Melbourne police station on March 11 to protest against bashings by police of people taken into

Tasmanian teachers' bank accounts raided

Tasmanian teachers' bank accounts raided By Shayne McCallum HOBART — Outrage has erupted among Tasmanian teachers over revelations by a Tasmanian building society senior executive that money has been deducted from teachers' personal

A habit of breaking new ground

A habit of breaking new ground The Times Of Zenia Gold By Chris Jones Black Wattle Press Reviewed by Michael Arnold Being at the forefront of new queerground is almost old hat for poet Chris Jones. Chris was involved in the

Poetry for the jobless

Poetry for the jobless By Stephen Bavaro SYDNEY — The Unemployed People's Embassy, based in the inner southern suburbs of Marrickville and St. Peters, has established the Poetry Party. A spokesperson for the UPE said that the idea

Council attacks free speech rally

Council attacks free speech rally By Maurice Sibelle BRISBANE — Brisbane City Council officers, with help from the Queensland Police, confiscated an information stall from free speech protesters in the Queen Street Mall on March 19.

Protest movements in Australia

Power and Protest: Movements for Social Change in Australian Society By Verity Burgmann Allen and Unwin. 302 pp. $24.95 (pb) Reviewed by Vannessa Hearman Verity Burgmann, co-editor of the four volume A People's History of Australia

Difficult women to tour

By Peter Boyle Linn Van Hek and Joe Dolce presented Difficult Women, readings and songs celebrating "women who have dared to stand up and speak", to completely sold out seasons at Melbourne's La Mamma and Budinski's theatres last year. Then,

Qld police slammed on Operation Trident

Qld police slammed on Operation Trident By Bill Mason BRISBANE — The controversial Operation Trident car-stealing scam was poorly conceived, incompetently executed and tainted from beginning to end, according to the Carter report

Bureaucracy, East and West

Power and Money By Ernest Mandel London: Verso. 251 pp. $34.95 Reviewed by Jason Cheng Readers familiar with Ernest Mandel's incisive and readable work will not be disappointed by Power and Money, in which he presents a Marxist theory