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By Bill Mason BRISBANE — "The overlap between the by- election for the Queensland state seat of Mundingburra, due on February 3, and the federal election campaign, makes the by-election result even more crucial to the fate of ALP governments in
Jose Ramos Horta is the special representative of the National Council for Maubere Resistance (CNRM). Along with other members of the East Timorese Diplomatic Front, he was in London during the recent meeting between the Portuguese and Indonesian
By Jennifer Thompson The January 23 Australian Industrial Relations Commission's decision on the dispute between Comalco and award workers at its bauxite mine and kaolin plant at Weipa received mixed reviews from workers and big business pundits.
By Marina Carman CANBERRA — The Australian Education Union (AEU) in Canberra is embarking on an industrial campaign to highlight the steady decline in ACT government funding to public education after the latest round of cutbacks. Teachers will stop
All You Can Eatkd langWarner MusicReviewed by Jen Crothers I approached the latest offering from kd lang with a great deal of scepticism. The hype about the kd phenomenon was just a bit too much. By the time I heard the album twice, I was getting
By Norm Dixon A general strike by the Congress of South African Trade Unions was narrowly averted after talks with African National Congress government ministers. The 24-hour strike, scheduled for January 16, was suspended by COSATU's leaders after
By Peter Boyle In the minds of some union bureaucrats, the class struggle in Australia is over. It is an "outdated paradigm". They defined a new role for unions under the ALP-ACTU Accord as working for the common good of "the Australian economy".
By Tom Flanagan DARWIN — East Timor activists believe that the charging of five protesters over the burning of Indonesian flags is politically motivated. The summonses were issued last week, more than a month after activists burned 20 Indonesian
By Tim E. Stewart DARWIN — The NT Greens have announced their candidates for the federal elections. Margie Friel and Ilana Eldridge are standing for the Senate. Friel is director of the Aboriginal Youth Law Centre at the Northern Territory
Pervomayskoye: Yeltsin wrote off hostages' lives By Renfrey Clarke MOSCOW — In his ghost-written autobiography, Russian President Boris Yeltsin recounts how as a child he lost two fingers from his left hand. Finding a grenade in the forest, he
By Susan Price MELBOURNE — More than 150 members of the National Tertiary Education Industry Union (NTEU) and their supporters gathered outside federal treasurer Ralph Willis' office in Footscray on January 25 to protest against the federal
By Rachael McGuin It is interesting to note the way the media can use the issue of empowerment of women as a forum for propaganda for free market liberalism. Women at the United Nations Non-Government Forum on Women, in China 1995, were voicing their