By Lisa Macdonald
Members of the National Tertiary Education Industry Union (NTEU) held a 24-hour strike on October 14 which closed university campuses around the country. The strike was the first action in an industrial campaign to protect
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250 at Women in Asia conference
By Helen Jarvis
MELBOURNE — The Fourth Women in Asia Conference was held at the University of Melbourne October 1-3. More than 250 people (including about 10 men) attended.
Women came from throughout
Harvest of Fear: A History of Australia's Vietnam War
By John MurphyAllen & Unwin, 1993. 335 pp., $19.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
When the first Australian troops were sent to Vietnam in 1965, there was little public protest and little
Competent managers
"[NSW] Treasury wanted to conduct an analysis of the risks of holding the Olympics, but Cabinet decided not to proceed with this until after Sydney won the Games." — Sydney Morning Herald, October 15.
Now they tell us
By Shayn McCallum
HOBART — The Pasminco-EZ zinc plant was forced to close down on October 11 when the Federation of Industrial Manufacturing and Engineering Employees, the plant's largest union, voted to joint the strike by the AMEU, the EPU
Chilean President Patricio Aylwin was met by a vigorous protest by members of the Chilean exile community and their supporters on his October 5 visit to Sydney Town Hall. The main demand of the demonstrators was "No to impunity", referring to moves
By Norm Dixon
In August tens of thousands of people flock to the capital of Scotland from all parts of the world. They come to celebrate the curious and sad fact that the subjugated people of Scotland have provided the cannon fodder and shock
By Max Lane
The Manila Rizal Branch of the Communist Party of the Philippines — known as MR — comprises about 5000 members and has influence within a range of organisations with a base of 120,000 people even in quiet times. Visiting Manila
By George Petersen
Shellharbour municipality, on the coast about 20 kilometres south of Wollongong, is virtually a dormitory suburb for workers in the Port Kembla industrial area, although a growing number of workers commute to Sydney. It has a
Adelaide universities go out
By Alison Dellit
ADELAIDE — Academics from all three South Australian universities joined the national strike on October 18.
The president of the Adelaide University Staff Association, Rod Crowther, said
By Alex Chis
On July 26 in Richmond, a predominantly African-American industrial city in the San Francisco Bay area, more than 7000 pounds of sulfuric acid fumes poured from a leaky General Chemical railroad car for three hours, forming a
Patricia Sharpe
Inside Indonesia, Australia's best-known quarterly magazine on Indonesian society and politics, celebrates 10 years of publishing this month. Written in English it is a glossy journal of 30-odd pages presenting views and analysis
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