By Eva Cheng
More workers in Japan are likely to lose their jobs or have their pay packets cut as the rise of the yen to new heights encourages Japanese companies to shift more production lines to the Third World, where costs are cheaper.
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RMIT fees to rise
By Sean Healy
MELBOURNE — As is appropriate for a university that has just appointed smallgoods king Sam Smorgon its new chancellor, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology is leading the way on becoming a
By Con Gouriotis
and Nadya Stani
SYDNEY — Watching the decontamination process at the Australian Defence Industries (ADI) site at St Marys is like trying to understand, while digging up a serial killer s victims, how it ever could have
TERESITA CARPIO is an official from the 30,000-strong United Workers of the Philippines (UWP), a trade union federation of mostly women workers, based in Metro-Manila. The federation covers workers from the textile, clothing, footwear and food
Sarcasm anyone?
By Brandon Astor Jones
"The trouble with the Republican Party is that it has not had a new idea for 30 years." — Woodrow Wilson
America's new speaker of the House of Representatives is also a history professor who
By Chantal Wynter and Kim Linden
MELBOURNE — Eighty people attended a forum on March 14 at Budinski's Theatre of Exile, in association with the reading of Classroom 3A, the testimony of Bosnian rape-camp survivor, Amira S.
Elly Varrenti
By Anthony Brown
US President Bill Clinton joined a long list of public figures when he recently attacked sole mothers for allegedly bludging off society.
In his January State of the Union address, Clinton vowed to track down and penalise
Harassment by other names
March 31, in case you missed it, was Secretary's Day. Yet another invention of the creative capitalist market mind which serves to guilt-trip people into buying commodities to make someone else — in this case the
The Campaign Against Sex Tourism and Trafficking in Filipino Women (CAST) is conducting an exposure/study tour to the Philippines from June 19 to July 4. The objectives of the tour are to expose the participants to the realities of the sex trade
By Deepa Fernandes
While much is said, written and debated about the current situation of Aboriginal affairs, nothing makes as much of a statement as the opening of the Mangkaja print exhibition at the Australian Print Workshop in Melbourne on
Actively Radical TV: The Unteachables — Looks at why young people in inner Sydney are pushed out of the education system. CTS (UHF 31, Sydney), Friday, April 6, 10.30pm (repeated Saturday, April 8, 10.30pm).
Movie: Mystery Train (1989) — Jim
Harold
Written and directed by Steve Thomas
A Flying Carpet Films production
ABC TV, Sunday, April 9, 8.30pm
Reviewed by Norm Dixon
This intriguing documentary reveals the story of Harold Blair, one of Australia's greatest opera singers
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