By Dave Riley
BRISBANE — A major factional spill during last year's state ALP conference dismembered the party's left wing. Two key left unions — the Miscellaneous Workers' Union and the metalworkers — allied themselves with factions of
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Employable
"With my skills in life, I am employable elsewhere." — NSW Labor right MLA Bob Martin, threatening to resign and cause a by-election if he was dropped from the front bench.
Loyalty
"If you only want to run for the big jobs, what
Reconciling Australia: The Hard Questions — Four prominent Aborigines have their say about the woolly concept of "reconciliation" in a special four-part series. Barbara Flick, indigenous adviser to the AMA, John Ah Kit, executive director of the
Abu Mazen poised to take up PNA post
By Karen Farrell
Declaration of Principles chief architect Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) will finally assume his role as head of the Palestinian Negotiations Supervisory Committee, according to an
By Craig Cormick
SAM WATSON is an Aboriginal activist, writer and manager of the Brisbane Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Legal Service. He recently talked to CRAIG CORMICK.
You were recently a guest at the Sydney Writers' Festival.
Support for Steel-Line Doors strikers
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — Some 200 people attended a Multicultural Night to Support the Steel-Line Doors Workers at the Trades and Labour Council Building on April 7. Organised by the Central American
The Essential History of Europe: Spain — Behind the lavish amount spent on Expo and the Olympics in Barcelona, suburban slums were hidden from view by hastily erected facades — a contradiction that this program maintains is typical of modern
Blowout Comb
Digable Planets
EMI
Reviewed by Zanny Begg
Digable Planet's 1993 release Reaching (a New Refutation of Time and Space) was unforgettable. It had a catchy, slick beat. But what made the album really stay in your mind was its
This is the text of a speech to a rally against woodchipping, which drew 5000 people in Hobart on March 18. It was given by REBECCA MECKELBURG on behalf of the Environmental Youth Alliance.
The federal Labor government's December decision to
WA teachers reject concessions
By Anthony Benbow
PERTH — WA teachers have rejected a pay deal offered to them by the education Department on March 31. Teachers have been enforcing bans on unpaid out-of-hours work since the start of the
Links: International Journal of Socialist Renewal
Issue number 4
New Course Publications
Reviewed by Salim Muktar
While the promise that the New World Order would usher in an era of peace lies in tatters, the claim by neo-liberal
Business as usual in NSW
The election of Labor right-winger Bob Carr to the NSW premiership has hardly created a ripple. The unanimous view, it seems, is that the Carr government's policies won't deviate significantly from those of its Coalition
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