Comment by Fred Up
SYDNEY — On December 3, the final package of the state Labor government's workers' compensation "reforms" passed through the upper house. State attorney general Jeff Shaw's package, including 25% cuts to lump sum compensation
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By Margaret Gleeson
When communications were renewed on January 10, the Peruvian government refused to provide a concrete response to the demands of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) which occupied the Lima residence of the Japanese
By Eva Cheng
"Globalisation" of the world capitalist system was the theme of the international report to the DSP conference, delivered by Doug Lorimer. The report argued that there has not been a qualitative change in the internationalisation of
In December, JILL HICKSON visited Indonesia with a video camera to document the situation there since the government crackdown in July on the People's Democratic Party (PRD). As a guest of the underground, she travelled extensively around the country
Ballarat NTEU beats sackings
By Jeremy Smith
On January 10, five workers in the University of Ballarat Student Union were handed redundancy notices. On January 11, they awoke to find their jobs advertised in the local paper. The sackings were
Educational disadvantage for blacks confirmed
By Marina Cameron
A study by the University of South Australia released on December 28 found that while the number of Aboriginal students enrolling in Australian universities increased by 48% between
By Stuart Russell
Individuals with a gripe against society and far right-wing groups pose the most serious security threat to the Sydney Olympics, the former deputy-general of ASIO has warned. Such social malcontents could strike almost anywhere
By Norm Dixon
The demoralised armed forces of Zaire's corrupt and brutal dictator Mobutu Sese Seko have been driven from a large area of the country's east by the fighters of the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo-Zaire
Iranian oil workers strike
Oil refinery workers in Tehran, Tabriz, Shiraz and Esfahan struck for two days on December 18 and 19. The strike came after the government failed to meet a two-month deadline to recognise the strikers' right of collective
Michael Collins: Irish patriot or sell-out?
By Sean Healy
There's no doubt about it — Michael Collins portrays one of the most heroic and tragic periods in the very long, heroic and tragic history of Ireland, and does it very engagingly. The
Life of Riley: Stop the world and get me a newspaper
@column intro = I suffer so much from the heats. It gives me pains to wake each morning and see no cloud larger than a fifty cent piece. We get toasted, roasted, grilled, stewed and carbonated on
New legal aid institute formed
By James Balowski
JAKARTA — The Indonesian Legal Aid and Human Rights Association (PBHI) was formed last November 5 by almost the entire operational division of the Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI) and a
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