BY CHRIS SLEE
MELBOURNE — Members of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) employed in power stations in the Latrobe Valley stopped work for several hours on the night of November 2, causing power blackouts in many parts of
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The deadly November 2 firefight between rival factions of the Fiji armed forces has again revealed the true source of "regional instability", and the greatest threat to human rights and democracy, in the South Pacific: the privileged neo-colonial
BY MAXINE CARON AND GARETH SMITH
BYRON BAY — About one hundred people gathered at the Great Northern Hotel here on October 29 for a fund-raising meeting organised by Byron Friends of East Timor and the Helping Ordinary People Exist(HOPE).
Isa
BY GAIL LORD
SYDNEY — A group of pro-public education activists, including members of the Democratic Socialist Party and the Internationalist Socialist Organisation, demonstrated outside the Kings School in North Parramatta on November 2 to
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — Feminists and socialists have opposed the appointment of a male women's officer at Tasmania University's Launceston campus, calling it a step backwards for women.
"Whichever way you look at it, having a man as
As a contribution to a big picture still being put together in countless publications, videos and photo essays, S11 Spring has its place. However, there is little analysis of what made S11 a success.
BY ANTHONY BENBOW
PERTH — Before the 1998 federal election, Western Australian Liberal Premier Richard Court described the One Nation party as having "racist policies which have no place in the Australian political system". One Nation was placed
BY JIM GREEN
A Senate inquiry into the plan for a new nuclear research reactor in Sydney has heard evidence about a string of problems and scandals surrounding the project.
The federal government and the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology
BY DANIEL KELLY
SYDNEY — The Central New South Wales branch of the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA)is taking legal action against Patrick Stevedores over the work conditions of straddle operators at the company's Port Botany container terminal.
The Art for a Change web site (<http://www.primenet.com/~mvallen>) has just published an emergency Palestine solidarity issue that documents art activism in support of a just and lasting peace between the Palestinian and Israeli people.
Anger at the war unleashed against the Palestinians by Israel drew members of the Palestinian community to a special forum organised by 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly in Adelaide on November 1.
John Nebauer reports that the forum featured a talk by Leslie
The people of Iraq live under unbearable circumstances. Since Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath regime seized power, it has engaged in ruthless repression and led the country into economic crisis.
The living conditions of the working class, already bad due
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