Bosses prepare to slash conditions
By James Vassilopoulos
The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry is coordinating a campaign to slash working conditions. It is preparing a test case to be put to the Australian Industrial Relations
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Young people's rights: this system can't deliver
By Marina Cameron
Recent media coverage of the plight of today's youth has been so inadequate in identifying solutions that one is left feeling that they were unable to do anything but
The Prophet's Children: Travels on the American LeftBy Tim WohlforthHumanities Press, 1994. 330 pp., $26. Review by Adam Hanieh
Tim Wohlforth was a key figure in the US Trotskyist movement from the McCarthy years until the '70s. This highly
@columhead = Partial will do
"Ministers [should] desist from promoting Dorothy Dixers that appear designed to make the person asking him look like a total dill." — Leaked federal Coalition memo on managing parliamentary question time.
By Max Watts
On March 5, ABC's Lateline interviewed Lieutenant Colonel Tim Spicer, OBE, British army retired. Colonel Spicer was not quite shown, because he insisted on remaining an anonymous shadow. Spicer is now the chief executive officer of
Ned KellyBy Douglas StewartAdapted by Pam LevershaTheatreworks, St Kilda, until March 22 Review by Graham Moyes
"If Ned Kelly was king/ he'd make those robbers swing/ he'd bring them down ..." Thus lamented Midnight Oil circa '81, adding another
Education campaign at ANU
By Martin Iltis
CANBERRA — An education forum organised by the Australian National University Students Association affirmed the need to have both ANU and cross-campus education collectives build actions such as
By Samuel King
"Education for and through enterprise" was the refrain of the 1995 Karpin report to the federal Labor government, attempting to legitimise direct ties between the school system and business. Since that time, the trend towards
By Eva Cheng
Readers of the western press are told that the economy in China has been "booming" in recent years and the people living in increasing "prosperity" due to their new-found economic freedom. The tens of millions of workers in
Close Lucas Heights!
The federal government should not allow nuclear waste to be reprocessed at the Lucas Heights nuclear facility south of Sydney. It should close it down altogether, and withdraw completely from the nuclear fuel cycle.
The
By Jeremy Smith
Last year an education alliance was formed among student unions, the NTEU and other campus unions and the vice-chancellors, in opposition to the Howard government's tertiary education funding cutbacks. It was quietly acknowledged
details = Rocking the FoundationsScreened at the Wild Spaces Film Festival in Hobart in February
Review by Ben Courtice
This film, an old favourite of radical activists, charts the rise of the NSW branch of the Builders Labourers'
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