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WA nurses fight for pay rise

By Leon Harrison PERTH — The Court government refuses to negotiate with WA nurses on a wages campaign despite them being among the lowest paid in the country. In 1991 nurses in all other states received a pay increase of 8-14% following

Defend the public sector!

Defend the public sector! By Dave Holmes Privatisation is at the cutting edge of the current capitalist attack against the working class. Throughout the western world, state assets and functions are being sold off, with drastic consequences for

Polynesians demand return of Moruroa

French commandos seized the Greenpeace yacht Vega with 21 of the original inhabitants of Moruroa and Fangataufa atolls — the sites of the current round of French nuclear weapons tests — as it attempted to land on Moruroa to demand the return of

Greenpeace under attack

By Jennifer Thompson In the last few weeks Greenpeace has been under fire from several fronts. While the French military and government have led the charge with attacks on Greenpeace ships in the vicinity of Moruroa atoll, the establishment

Hostility

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You walk into uni
faced with angry posters
calling on subdued students to rally.
"No fees for degrees
in overcrowded
underfunded universities."
"Fees are bad for all
— worse for women."
In the lift
— packed to capacity —
no one is smiling.
You jerk as someone steps on you.
You are suffocating.
You drop off those books
and go back down again.
Same story with the lift.