By Marina Cameron
After the federal government cut $2.3 billion from university operating grants last year, university administrations have been scrabbling to make up costs by cutting staff, courses, libraries and services and charging more
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By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Anti-nuclear campaigners in Russia are locked in battle with state authorities over plans by the Atomic Energy Ministry to start a lucrative business reprocessing domestic and imported nuclear waste. If the ministry
By Filomena da Silva
Another Timorese freedom fighter has fallen. David Alex Daitula, 46 years old, was Falintil deputy chief of staff, regional commander in the Bacau area, and one of the earliest fighters for Timorese nationalism with the
International Women's Day Song 1997
By Rachel Morgan
Hey sisters take to the streetsIt's International Women's DaySee the strength in you, the strength in meCelebrate our diversity.
Hey sisters sing out loudGutsy aunts have shown the
By Anthony Benbow
PERTH — June 26 was the WA Trades and Labour Council's "Day of Defiance", part of the campaign against the Court government's "third wave" of anti-union laws. Around 6000-8000 workers attended from all over the city and some
WA: the most homophobic state
By Corinne Glenn
PERTH — Since the repeal of Tasmania's anti-gay legislation on May 1, WA has the less than honourable title of being the most homophobic state in Australia. The age of consent in WA for gay
The Unconscious CivilisationABC Massey LecturesBy John Ralston SaulPenguin, 1995. 208 pp.A Truly Civil SocietyBoyer LecturesBy Eva CoxABC in booklet form or from the ABC web site. Review by Gerry Harant
Since their broadcast on the ABC, a book
By Ruth Ratcliffe
BRISBANE — The Queensland minister for health, National Party member Mike Horan, has launched an attack on women's right to abortion. Horan displayed his ultra-right, anti-woman views on the weekend of June 21-22 when
New industrial law proposed in SA
By Melanie Sjoberg
ADELAIDE — Some 40 people gathered at the state office of the Department of Industrial Affairs on June 25 to protest against changes to industrial relations legislation. The state
No Â鶹´«Ã½ next week
Because so many people involved in the production and distribution of Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly will be in Melbourne for the Resistance conference July 4-6, we are skipping publication for one week. The next Â鶹´«Ã½ will be
Victorian health dispute still simmering
By Jo Obronschka
MELBOURNE — Victorian public sector nurses voted to end industrial bans, in place since June 12, at a stop-work meeting on June 23. The industrial action forced the state
Lesbians and gay men: still fighting discrimination
By Marina Cameron
SYDNEY — On June 19, NSW independent MP Clover Moore released details of a bill aimed at extending rights to gay, lesbian and unmarried couples which she intends
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