By Tom Flanagan HOBART — The Green Independents' lunchtime campaign launch on January 15 filled the 400-seat Hobart Town Hall to capacity, with another 200 people on the steps listening to speeches broadcast by loudspeakers. With the
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DSS hassles Aidex protesters By Brendan Greenhill BRISBANE — People who have attended the anti-Aidex protest in Canberra have been harassed by the Department of Social Security for their involvement. Beneficiaries who were arrested or
Representatives of the Farabundo Martà National Liberation Front (FMLN) and the Salvadoran government signed a peace treaty on January 16 to end the country's 12-year civil war. The agreement, including a cease-fire from February 1, had been
A significant victory has been won for workers at a paper factory at Emu Plains in Sydney's industrial west. After 42 weeks on a 24-hour picket line, 33 Vista Paper Products workers learned on December 16 that the Industrial Relations Commission had ordered their reinstatement. Penrith resident and activist Gail Lord, a supporter of the picketers, recounts some of the highlights of the struggle.
Winners The Business Review Weekly, in association with Alcatel, held its business awards dinner in Sydney's Queen Victoria Building in early December. Then prime minister Bob Hawke awarded the Business Leader of the Year award to then chief
By Melanie Sjoberg MELBOURNE — An important element of the ACTU's drive to amalgamate Australia's roughly 300 unions into about 20 mega-unions ran into trouble in December when rank and file workers defeated an attempt to shotgun the
Peter Gellert MEXICO CITY — This city's legendary air pollution problem is bad and getting worse. City authorities have responded with an emergency plan to address partially the deteriorating environmental situation in the world's largest
Labor Premier Michael Field's decision to call a snap election was the only way to avoid certain defeat on the floor of parliament.
Croatian coverage If your newspaper has regular articles on the war in Croatia, I urge you to have someone sell the paper at Croatian clubs throughout Australia as you will have many people supporting you. Thank you for the unbiased, truthful
Renfrey Clarke, Â鶹´«Ã½'s Moscow correspondent, is getting married. Renfrey and Larissa, an actor from Novosibirsk, will be married in Moscow on January 22. Best wishes to both of them from the GL staff. Photo by Peter Annear.
AIDS radio plays It's been a few years now since the Grim Reaper appeared on our TV screens, bowling an unsuspecting group of heterosexual couples and little children into HIV oblivion. Since then, attempts to educate the public about AIDS have
"Australia Day", January 26, is a day of joy and festivities for most Australians. But what about the feelings of the real Australians? The original occupants of this country were happy, contented and peaceful
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