By Tully Bates
MELBOURNE — Public transport workers went on strike for 48 hours March 8-10, causing serious disruption to the Grand Prix. Predictably, the move sparked outrage from the state government and media, with Premier Jeff Kennett
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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
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
Unionists protest WorkCover changes
By Michael Bull
MELBOURNE — Ten thousand construction workers marched through Melbourne on March 5, condemning the Kennett government's changes to WorkCover. Their rally voted to continue a campaign of
1997 Queer Film and Video Festival
By Bronwen Beechey MELBOURNE — The seventh annual Queer Film and Video Festival, running March 14-31, will showcase nearly 100 feature films, documentaries and shorts from Australia, Europe, Asia and North
MELBOURNE — In late April, a massive open air concert is planned in the Treasury Gardens to highlight the plight of 1300 East Timorese asylum seekers facing deportation to Portugal. Since the invasion of East Timor by Indonesia in 1975, there has
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
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'
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
Critical Mass
HOBART — Critical Mass is an "organised coincidence" whereby, on one evening each month, the usual fossil fuel-driven peak hour traffic gives way to a slow moving, singing, chanting convoy of cyclists, skaters and walkers.
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
Thousands of trade unionists in South Africa, Swaziland and Mozambique prevented trucks entering or leaving Swaziland on March 3, in solidarity with the Swaziland Federation of Trade Unions.
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