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ADELAIDE — 1000 public sector workers from the miscellaneous division of the Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union unanimously rejected the Liberal government's meagre enterprise bargaining pay offer at a stop-work meeting on February

A lesson in risk assessment

Peter Montague The computer industry revealed an illuminating use of risk assessment recently. On November 24, the New York Times announced discovery of a bug in the Pentium computer chip, the flagship product of the giant Intel Corporation, the

Woodchipping destroys jobs

The federal government's capitulation to the timber industry on the pretext of "protecting jobs" has come under increasing criticism. One respected researcher, Dr Clive Hamilton, argues that protection of the 509 coupes would not

Doing politics differently

By Lisa Renfrey SYDNEY — "After four years of Coalition government, NSW is a more unjust and degraded society. The Fahey-Greiner government has consolidated the anti-people, anti-environment project begun in the 1970s and 80s by the state

'Pro-life' murderers

On December 30, two Brookline (Boston), Massachusetts, reproductive health clinics suffered the cold-blooded murders of two women. The women fatally shot were 25-year-old Shannon Lowney and 38-year-old Lee Ann Nichols, who worked as receptionists for

A useful guide to the forest debate

Sustaining Our Forests By Kara Joss 1994. 121 pp. $15 Reviewed by Lisa Macdonald Sustaining Our Forests is a much needed and very useful resource for both the novice and the well informed on forest conservation in Australia. The product of

Greens aim to enter ACT Assembly

CANBERRA – Our world is in crisis. The world's resources are mined in an unsustainable way, more and more of arable land is becoming unproductive, the climate of the earth is under threat and the distance between rich and poor is increasing inside each country and between countries.

Political prisoners in Chile

Political prisoners in Chile By Monica Chiappe After a year of investigation, the Chilean section of the International Association Against Torture (IAAT) has evidence that the cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of political prisoners

Building a left wing in Sri Lanka

The Nama Sama Samaja Party (NSSP) of Sri Lanka was formed in 1977 by people who were a faction within the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP). In the 1960s the LSSP had a very large base within the working class and among peasants. However, during its