Kurnell workers end strike
By David Mizon
SYDNEY — Striking Kurnell workers returned to work on May 19, having gained little in concrete conditions. Their seven-day strike forced Caltex management to negotiate, but the focus has now moved
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Sydney Film Festival
The 42nd Sydney Film Festival, which opens on June 9, will mark the centenary of cinema. As well as the 150 plus films from 30 countries, there will be a larger group of retrospectives including a selection of underrated
By Reihana Mohideen
"If we treated our members the same way that the ACTU treats us, we wouldn't have any members left", commented John Price, federal secretary of the Transport Workers Union, speaking to Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly about the union's
By Frank O'Brien
Donncha O'Kane sees his family three times a year. They travel from Castlewellan in County Down to visit him in prison in Celle in Germany. It is a long, expensive journey and, like the families of the other Irish prisoners held
Racial Hatred Bill
Lisa Macdonald's "Issues" story (GLW 19th May 1995) "What's wrong with the Racial Hatred Bill", is spot on.
Whilst not wanting to get up the nose of a group of people who seem to take great delight in bashing the shit out
By Jim McIlroy
Workers at the giant Mt Isa mine are calling for unity of all unions and mineworkers in any negotiations with MIM Holdings over the future of their three-month-long dispute over wages, conditions and union coverage.
May is proving to be a very good month for the Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly fund appeal. This year we need to raise in excess of $100,000 — above and beyond money received from sales — in order to keep the project afloat.
Much of the money raised for
Until June 3, an exhibition of "Contemporary Art of the South Pacific" is being held at the Gallery of the Alliance Francaise de Sydney. TABAH SILAU, a Papua New Guinean painter, activist and member of the provincial government of Madang, spoke to
Votes For Women: The Australian Story
By Kirsten Lees
Allen and Unwin, 1995. $24.95(pb)
Reviewed by Bernie Brian
The next time Paul Keating promotes his minimalist republic with little or no change to the Constitution, we should remind him
By Ray Fulcher
MELBOURNE — At a mass meeting of teachers on May 3, the Victorian State Teachers Association (VSTA) Rank and File Group called for the suspension of standing orders to discuss the case of John Glazebrook.
Four months ago,
Candidate urges support for Mt Isa
By Jim McIlroy
BRISBANE — Zanny Begg, the Democratic Socialist candidate for the seat of Brisbane Central in the upcoming state elections, has urged continuing solidarity with the Mt Isa workers.
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[The material printed here was sent to us by the Education Action Network (EAN) in WA.]
The following is two letters which have been produced in response to the flak that activists in WA received after the militant occupation of the Perth DEET
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