Unions in tiff with Kirner By Peter Boyle MELBOURNE — A plan to corporatise state utilities, including the State Electricity Commission, the Gas and Fuel Corporation and Melbourne Water, has been endorsed by the Kirner government's cabinet
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Politics after Los Angeles Following the collapse of the bureaucratic attempts to build socialism in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, propagandists for capitalism had a field day proclaiming the victory of their system. Some even
The vaudeville show In the dog days of his bitter struggle to bump off Bob Hawke, Paul Keating assured sceptical journalists that the utter lack of warmth felt for him by the Australian electorate was no problem: slap on a bit of vaudeville and
Light criticism The great tragedy of the book Politics and the Accord is that it has come too late and is conceived as a reply to Costa and Duffy's iconoclastic work Labour, Prosperity and the Nineties. I was surprised to find Mike Rafferty
Poverty in the United States The average weekly wage of non-supervisory workers fell by approximately 20% between 1973 and 1990. The real minimum wage in 1990 was worth 20% less than it was in 1980. For a full-time year-round worker the
Cuban Marxists and Christians meet SANTIAGO — Leaders of the Cuban Communist Party and some 50 leaders and lay persons from Protestant Churches in the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba met on April 30 under the slogan, "For hope and
Brisbane free speech campaign resumes By Cameron S. Boyd BRISBANE — Some 100 people rallied on May 8 in the Queen Street Mall to generate public support for the freedom of speech campaign in Brisbane. Speakers included Terry Fisher, a
By Liam Mitchell ADELAIDE — A rally of 100 Aborigines and supporters on May 9 heard of the mystery surrounding the death of long-time Aboriginal rights activist Alice Dixon, 53, found dead in her home on May 6. Police have said that there
By Norm Dixon "We demand that the Security Council condemn the sabotage against the Cuban airline with the same firmness that we condemn the sabotage against the Pan Am and UTA airplanes", wrote Cuba's ambassador to the United Nations, Ricardo
The Blue Shadows at Night em = By Peter Hicks and Geoff Francis Rodney King was driving home on the freeway one night, He was guilty of nothing, 'cept not being white, There were four of LA's finest there, out to have fun, So for this Black
By Rose McCann SYDNEY — Late on the afternoon of May 8, clerks employed by the Building Workers Industrial Union (BWIU) and the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen's Association (FEDFA) learned they had won their strike. The 36 clerks had
Businesslike generals Two Indonesian generals sacked over the November 12 army massacre in East Timor are using their new-found free time to study management in the United States, the Indonesian magazine Editor said on May 5. Major-General
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