Jeremy Smith

  • How S11 hit regional Victoria

    BALLARAT — When I heard of plans for an action outside the World Economic Forum summit on September 11, I was anxious to find a way for unionists and activists in Ballarat and regional Victoria to be a part of the event. It also

  • NTEU now an 'industry union'

    BY JEREMY SMITH& DANIEL JARDINE MELBOURNE — "Finally I can say we are the industry union", said a triumphant Carolyn Allport, the president of the National Tertiary Education Industry Union, of a decision by the Australian Industrial Relations

  • The business of universities

    The business of universitiesSince Labor education minister John Dawkins launched his infamous green paper on higher education in December 1987, public education has taken a battering from governments of both

  • What did the '60s leave us?

    Anti-disciplinary Protest: Sixties Radicalism and PostmodernismBy Julie StevensCambridge University Press, 1998. $29.95 Yippies to yuppies, students to stockbrokers, hippies to entrepreneurs, grand narratives to relativism. Did the

  • Reith and Kemp size up the NTEU

    The federal Coalition government has set its sights on the National Tertiary Education Industry Union as part of its anti-union offensive. The NTEU has suspected for some time that the government will come after it. Industrial

  • Another win for the NTEU

    Another win for the NTEUMELBOURNE — A strike scheduled for November 10 at the Victoria University of Technology was called off after management indicated it would settle an agreement with the National Tertiary Education

  • Management digs in at Melbourne Uni

    Management digs in at Melbourne UniMELBOURNE — Up to 10 universities will be hit by industrial disputes this year as the National Tertiary Education Industry Union continues its national campaign for better salaries and

  • Staff win at Victoria University

    Staff win at Victoria UniversityMELBOURNE — Management at the Victoria University of Technology have backed down in the face of a National Tertiary Education Industry Union (NTEU) campaign against censorship. On April 12, three

  • Deakin Uni and Coles in private deal

    MELBOURNE — Deakin University and Coles New World announced a new private vocational and higher education institution on April 14. Although details of the new "Coles Institute" are sketchy, the announcement signals a new stage in

  • NTEU highlights education decline

    NTEU highlights education declineThe stand-off between the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) and the senior management at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and Sydney University, along with a proposed strike at

  • NTEU national council sets strategy

    NTEU national council sets strategyThe National Tertiary Education Industry Union held its national council meeting three days before the October 3 federal election. Under the slogan "NTEU: Leading the Industry", more than 200

  • NTEU plans wages and job security campaign

    MELBOURNE — Delegates to a two-day National Tertiary Education Industry Union conference on June 15 and 16 resolved to go on the offensive against the federal government's cuts and privatisation. The conference was organised to