Union demands transport industry inquiry
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — Hughie Williams, Queensland state secretary of the Transport Workers Union (TWU), has called for an urgent inquiry into the road transport industry. This follows another fatal
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Women's edition banned at Griffith University
BRISBANE — The centrespread of the women's edition of the Griffith University student newspaper, Gravity, has sparked controversy. It features a picture of women's genitals with by a poem by Jen Clark
Australian Prisoners' Union formed
By Sean Healy
On July 17, prisoners' rights activists launched a new organisation, the Australian Prisoners' Union. The launch took place at the 15th anniversary function for Breakout, a design and printing
By Graham Matthews
BRISBANE — The "net bet" fiasco, involving Queensland treasurer David Hamill and deputy speaker Bill D'Arcy, is threatening to throw the Queensland Labor government into crisis. Hamill has had to stand down pending the results
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Indonesian unionist starts Australian tour
By Martin Iltis
MELBOURNE — An Australian tour by Indonesian unionists from the Indonesian National Front for Labour Struggles (FNPBI) is under way. Romawaty Sinaga, the head of the international
Education For Slavery or Liberation?By Jo WilliamsResistance Books, 199922pp, $2.95 Review by Kim Collins
Jo Williams explains that the education system is one of the capitalist system's central means of disseminating capitalist ideology. It
Queensland NTEU takes action
By Justin Randell and Adam Baker
BRISBANE — Academics, students and general staff have taken action for better enterprise bargaining agreements at the University of Queensland, Griffith University and Queensland
Gatton students defend their college
By Robyn Marshall
About 200 students from the agricultural college in the small town of Gatton, about an hour's drive from Brisbane, opposed a University of Queensland administration proposal to close the
By Jim Green
Pacific islanders are organising to stop the passage of plutonium reactor fuel from Europe to Japan through South Pacific waters. Two ships carrying mixed uranium-plutonium (MOX) fuel will pass through the Tasman Sea in late August or
Downer in Dili: what wasn't reported
By Sam King
DILI — The Australian government, forced to recognise that some form of political change in East Timor is inevitable whatever the result of the referendum, has been attempting to woo the
Thirty years of scientific research have established that the most powerful predictor of human disease is economic inequality. The main public health problem of our time is growing inequality of income, wealth and status. The New York Times reported
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