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Clannad celebrate 20 years Banba Clannad BMG Reviewed by Ian Jamieson This year marks the 20th anniversary for the Irish band Clannad. To mark the occasion, BMG have released their sixteenth album, Banba. The eleven tracks are
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Qld high school students walk out over education cuts By Bill Mason BRISBANE — High school students up and down Queensland have walked out, rallied and marched in protest at state government cuts in education funding in recent weeks.
By Pip Hinman Senator Christabel Chamarette is bemused by the recent flood of attention that the two federal parliamentary representatives of the Greens (WA) have received from the mass media. She and fellow Green (WA) Senator Dee Margetts
Sinking our future By Melanie Sjoberg ADELAIDE — When the first of the new Collins class submarines was launched at the Osborne Port Facility on August 28, 40 protesters met the officially invited guests in an attempt to raise
10,000 rally against WA government By Stephen Robson PERTH — Ten thousand unionists rallied here at lunch time on August 19 to protest the Court Liberal government industrial legislation and changes to workers' compensation. The
By Steve Rogers CANBERRA — Public Service Union leaders are running for cover in the wake of the August 17 federal budget. On August 25 the PSU National Executive suspended its enterprise bargaining negotiations with the government.
By Paul Oboohov SYDNEY — Workers at the Tooheys brewing plant at Libcombe set up a picket line on August 18 following moves by the plant's owner, Lion Nathan, to force redundancies on 156 production workers. Maintenance workers were
By Peter Boyle On the eve of the ACTU Congress, Democratic Socialist Party national secretary John Percy urged the unions to break its Accord with the Keating Labor government because it had proved to be a millstone around the neck of the
Rally hits Goss budget cuts By Nathan Laurent BRISBANE — "We are not going to stop fighting until the cuts are stopped, until our education system improves, until students have some rights." This was the message from high school student
Strangled with his old school tie In the experience of former NSW Supreme Court Judge Jack Lee QC, men and women had been "getting along very well for years" until someone took a Victorian Supreme Court judge's comments in a rape case out of
Van Morrison comes full circle Too Long In Exile Van Morrison Polydor Reviewed by Bernie Brian Van Morrison fans do not need reviews to tell them to buy one of his albums since he never fails to produce quality music. But if there