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BY AMY PARISH On April 11, the University of Wollongong's council appointed George Maltby as chairperson of the Illawarra Technology Corporation (ITC), the corporate arm of the UOW. Maltby was already chairperson of Thales International Pacific
The following letter, initiated by non-affiliated Socialist Alliance members John van der Velden and Michael Morphett, was first circulated in late March in the run-up to the alliance second national conference, to be held on May 10-11. So far it has
BY BILL MASON BRISBANE — At meeting of 50 people at the Paddington Workers Club on April 10, Humphrey McQueen — Australia's most eminent left-wing historian — spoke on the theme of the “War on Work”, outlining the links between the war
REVIEW BY BRIAN JONES The PianistDirected by Roman PolanskiWritten by Ronald Harwood and Wladyslaw SzpilmanWith Adrien Brody and Thomas Kretschmann In 1939, Wladyslaw Szpilman played the last live music heard on Polish radio before the Nazi
BY PATRICK BOND The rift between the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) over privatisation has deepened substantially since January, when Pretoria launched the full sale of the
BY NORM DIXON The parents of a British solidarity activist shot in the head by Israeli occupation forces on April 11 have accused the Israeli government of “deliberate recklessness”. The attack, the third on foreign supporters of the
BY SARAH STEPHEN Ebrihim Sammaki fled Iran after the fall of the Shah, and fell in love with an Indonesian woman, Endong, while he was living in Indonesia. Nine years ago, they married and had two children. Then, two years ago, Ebrihim
BY ANSO THOM Conservative estimates by Wilma Meeus and David Sanders at the University of the Western Cape's School of Public Health show that rich Western countries have saved billions by enticing African medical professionals to leave their
HairDirected by David AtkinsLyrics by Gerome Ragni and James RadoMusic by Galt MacDermotWith Matt Hetherington, Kane Alexander, Mitchell Butal and Kelly AbbeyCapitol Theatre, Sydney, until May 8Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne, from May 20. REVIEW
BY DOUG LORIMER After several weeks of accusations from the White House and the Pentagon against the Syrian government of President Bashar al Assad — ominously similar to those used by Washington to justify its invasion of Iraq — on April 17 US
William Safire, Robert Bartley, Wall Street Journal, Jerry Falwell, Jay Garner, Balfour Declaration, Christian Zionism, Lord Palmerston, Lord Shaftesbury, British imperialism, Uri Avnery "> UNITED STATES: Architects of empire By URI AVNERY
BY SUE BULL GEELONG — As part of a series of regional report-backs about the outcomes of the royal commission into the building industry, union officials arrived in Geelong on April 15. Martin Kingham, state secretary of the Construction,