Nurses campaign for better deal
By Kim Linden
MELBOURNE — At a stop-work meeting of 3000 at Dallas Brooks Hall on June 12, Victorian public sector nurses voted unanimously to start industrial action as part of a campaign to improve
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For the Hell of It: The Life and Times of Abbie HoffmanBy Jonah RaskinUniversity of California Press, 1996. 315 pp., $45 (hb) Review by Phil Shannon
High up the league ladder of US '60s icons is Abbie Hoffman. Co-star, with Jerry Rubin, of the
Police, loggers break East Gippsland blockade
By Marcel Cameron
MELBOURNE — Thirty-nine activists have been arrested after attempting to stop the clear-felling of wilderness quality old-growth forest in East Gippsland. The blockade of the
Festival Records picketed
By Shane Bentley & Paul Howes
SYDNEY — After Festival Records issued redundancy notices to 50 workers at its Pyrmont plant on May 12, members of the National Union of Workers set up a picket line to demand a
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — "Young people in Australia will overwhelmingly reject Pauline Hanson's attempt to set up a One Nation youth wing", according to Zanny Begg, Brisbane organiser of the socialist youth organisation Resistance. "Hanson's
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BHP workers rally
NEWCASTLE — A June 12 community rally called by unions covering workers at the BHP steelworks was attended by around 1800 people. Speakers on the ALP-dominated platform used the opportunity to glorify the former Labor
Homeless Aborigines evicted
DARWIN — At sunrise on May 29, police raided a camp of homeless Aboriginal people occupying bush land at Lee Point. The group — who had camped there for 18 days in defiance of eviction orders from the minister of
A teacher at a Melbourne university rang the 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ subscription hotline last week with a creative idea for helping his students, as well as 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly.
Having recently discovered 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ on the internet, he recognised a rich
By Norm Dixon
Thirty-two years of US-backed dictatorship have left Congo (Zaire) in a desperate economic and social situation. The personal wealth of exiled tyrant Mobutu Sese Seko is estimated to be as high as $10 billion, almost equivalent to
Leaks from Japan N-plant
Radioactive water leaked from the Shikoku Electric Power Company's reactor in Ikata City, western Japan, on June 5. The leak was the latest in a series of nuclear accidents and cover-ups, the worst being the March 11
Getting real about jobs
@box text intro = The federal government's decision to delay the gradual reduction of tariffs on cars was welcomed by the car companies with the claim that this would preserve jobs in the industry. But whether jobs will
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