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BHP steelworkers in national strike

By Geoff Payne NEWCASTLE — Workers took strike action at nearly all of the Broken Hill Proprietary Company's steel manufacturing or processing centres last week. The unions' log of claims was endorsed by the membership in December. The

First play by Timorese Cultural Group

By Peter Boyle MELBOURNE — Jose Pires left East Timor 17 years ago. He was eight years old. With his brothers and sisters he was bundled into a car and rushed to Dili wharf where the last ship was preparing to depart. The port was ablaze.

Write on

Vote for Labor Sean Healey (Write on, GLW March 24) ignores two reasons for calling for a vote for Labour. (1) It is much easier to expose the pro-capitalist nature of the Labour party if they are in Government. When Labour are in

Misplacing people

People and Place Australian Forum for Population Studies, Monash University Subscriptions $25 (Australia), $30 (overseas) Reviewed by Jeremy Smith A new journal publishes research on migration patterns, labour markets, the urban sprawl

... and ain't i a woman?: Shaping reality

Shaping reality Its was hard to work up much solidarity with Meryl Streep when she railed against sex discrimination in Hollywood a couple of years ago. What do the majority of us have in common with a woman campaigning for the right to be

Meeting focuses on women in prison

By Rachael Harris MELBOURNE — About 150 people attended a memorial on March 26 at the Melbourne Town Hall for women who have died in custody or shortly after being released from custody. Women in Fairlea and Barwon prisons also held their

Occupied school to resist closure

Occupied school to resist closure By Peter Boyle MELBOURNE — The parents, students and community activists who are occupying and operating Richmond Secondary College (one of 52 schools official closed by the Kennett government last

Abortion study locates problems

By Melanie Sjoberg ADELAIDE — A study of the effects of abortion on women in Australia indicates that the real trauma associated with the experience is suffered in trying to obtain information and access to abortion services, rather than as

Radio highlights

Diamonds Aren't Forever — Sandy McCutcheon reports on the threatened forced removal of 700 people from diamond diggings in South Africa's western Transvaal — land they have lived on since 1926. ABC Radio National, Fri April 9, 12.10 p.m.

Contemporary fantasy

Contemporary fantasy Into the West Starring Gabriel Byrne and Ellen Barkin Reviewed By Bernie Brian Take two cute, precocious young boys and a white horse that they have just retrieved from a very wealthy and very crooked boss of a

The Living End

The Living End The Living End A film by Greg Araki Starring Mike Dytri and Craig Gilmore Kino Cinema, Melbourne Reviewed by Kylie Budge and Jo Brown The original draft of the The Living End was called Fuck the World. That

Political prisoner on US death row

The recent visit to Australia by Amnesty International US chairperson Rick Halperin has focused attention on the death penalty in the United States. The case of radical journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, on death row in Pennsylvania convicted for the