By Frank Enright
Overtime rates should be cut to discourage workers working longer hours, says former Australian Council of Social Services (ACOSS) president Julian Disney.
Professor Disney's comments follow last November's statement by the
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ALEX CHIS, a member of the editorial committee of Independent Politics in the United States, was in Moscow in October to attend the international labour conference "Modern Telecommunications: New Vistas for Workers' Solidarity", which was primarily
By Frank Enright
Port Kembla grain terminal workers voted unanimously on January 13 to ban exports to Papua New Guinea. The ban will prevent a scheduled shipment of grain from leaving Port Kembla on January 28.
Announcing the ban, South
Daens
Directed by Stijn Coninx
Academy Twin, Sydney
Reviewed by Frank Enright
Nominated for an Academy Award for "Best Foreign Film", Daens is a powerful film built on a solid story. There's no Hollywood glitter sprinkled all over this
Fear From the Book - A series on books of enormous influence that struck fear into the establishment of the day. - The Rights of Man, published over 200 years ago, alarmed all those who dreaded revolution in Europe. In it Thomas Paine called for
1994 promises to be a very exciting year for the left and progressive people. In April will come the first democratic election in South Africa. Â鶹´«Ã½ will be there to cover it.
Over Easter, the International Â鶹´«Ã½ Conference will draw
Chaos A.D.
Sepultra
Roadrunner Records
Reviewed by Kest
It sounds like the herald proclaiming the end of the world. Perhaps even more than in their previous album Arise, Sepultra have made a record of utter desolation and anger.
They
By Pip Hinman
SYDNEY - A range of exciting projects to develop links between socialists and progressive movements in Australia and around the world was discussed at the Democratic Socialist Party's 15th national conference, held January 3-8.
By Maree Nutt
Since 1976 a radical bank in Bangladesh has transformed the lives of several million of its poorest people. A local group called RESULTS is now lobbying the Australian government to have it support a scheme to have the bank
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW - In the last week of December, one of the leading figures in the newly elected Russian parliament was expelled from Bulgaria after urging the replacement of Bulgarian President Zhelyu Zhelev, whom he described as
Happy New Year! 1994, the United Nations International Year of the Family. Isn't it meant to make us feel all warm and gooey inside? Isn't that why special issues of a 50 cent coin and a $5 note are going to be produced?
The family is being
Noel Counihan: Artist and Revolutionary
By Bernard Smith
Oxford University Press Australia, 1993.
568 pp., $59.95 (hb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
"Knock them off their feet with truth and reality", wrote an artist friend of Noel Counihan
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