By Adam Hanieh
ADELAIDE — The Keep Telstra Public Alliance has been formed to lead the campaign against the privatisation of Telstra. KTPA brings together a range of organisations such as the CEPU, CPSU, ACF, Friends of the Earth, Green Party,
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Comment by Greg Adamson
The latest round of Community and Public Sector Union mass meetings against Howard's threatened 10% cut to the Australian public sector showed that the mood for a fight is strong among broad sectors of public sector workers.
Landowners on the Ok Tedi and Fly rivers have overwhelmingly rejected the Eighth Supplemental Agreement Compensation Act package, agreed to between the PNG government and Ok Tedi mine operator BHP, the PNG Independent newspaper reported on May 3. In
By Melanie Sjoberg
ADELAIDE — More than 1000 people rallied at Noarlunga in the southern suburbs on May 8 as part of the campaign against the state Liberal government's cuts to education. Around 100 schools were closed as part of the rolling
By Max Lane
As the first parliament under the Howard government gets under way, everybody is waiting to see how Howard's axe will fall. Howard, industrial relations minister Peter Reith and treasurer Peter Costello have already done a lot of
Peace and its Discontents: Gaza-Jericho 1993-1995By Edward SaidVintage Press, 1995. 197 pp., $14.95Reviewed by Adam Hanieh Edward Said has been a prominent Palestinian critic of the peace accords since the signing of the Declaration of Principles
What is Nature?: Culture, Politics and the non-HumanBy Kate SoperBlackwell, 1995. 289 pp. $39.95Reviewed by Neville Spencer Concepts of what nature is and of what counts as natural feature both explicitly and implicitly in much progressive political
By Jennifer Thompson
The Coalition government's Workplace Relations and Other Legislation Bill, soon to go to parliament, will contain all of the threats of the election campaign and more beside. Liberal industrial relations minister Peter Reith's
By Nick Fredman
SYDNEY — A range of groups promoting solidarity with the East Timorese struggle for self-determination are holding events over the next few weeks. These events are designed to help build the August 25 National Day of Solidarity,
OSLO — The Norwegian government ignored scientific findings and flouted international norms to set a quota of 425 on the north-east Atlantic population of minke whales on May 4, according to Greenpeace Norway. In 1982, the International Whaling
Feminists organise toys for Cuba
MELBOURNE — Radical Women, a socialist feminist organisation, has appealed to Australian supporters of Cuba to contribute to the 1996 Cuban Children's Day Toy Appeal. The appeal, an initiative of the Federation
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — With close to 1000 square kilometres of Ukraine made uninhabitable by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, you might expect the authorities in the capital, Kiev, to take a tolerant attitude to protests against nuclear
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