Log of claims on Viking
By Nick Markin
SYDNEY — On February 14, members of the National Union of Workers served a log of claims on the Viking Office Products warehouse in Rydalmere. The main claim is for a guarantee that all NUW members will be
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Call to boycott Kakadu
Lex Martin
DARWIN — The Northern Territory government is currently pressuring the federal government to approve a second uranium mine at Jabiluka within Kakadu National Park. There are also plans to develop a third mine
Tasmanians take on racism
By Iggy Kim
HOBART — The newly formed Tasmanians Against Racism (TAR) has been meeting since January 14. Its members come from a variety of organisations, including Women's International League for Peace and Freedom,
By Dot Tumney
When it comes to developmental biology and politics, Lysenko stuffed up the environmental determinists, and Hitler's lot rendered genetics untouchable. Hence the nature/genetics nurture/environment debates have been a circus of cycles
By Ben Courtice
HOBART — The Tasmanian branch of the Australian Education Union, having spent more than a year campaigning for a wage rise, has restarted negotiations under the new federal industrial relations legislation for a 22.26% rise.
By Carla Gorton
The defeat of the federal government's Hindmarsh Island bridge bill in the Senate on February 10 has, for the moment, prevented it from overriding the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act. The Kumarangk
Starved soulStarved soul
By Brandon Astor
"George Washington Carver, it is said, used to get up and go out into the woods every day just before sun-up and sit on his favorite tree stump. While there, during his daily meditations, he would
By Margaret Perrott
NSW — State-wide meetings of registrars, resident medical officers (RMOs) and interns were held on February 11 to decide on future campaigns and strike action to fight the Health Insurance Amendment Bill (No. 2, 1996). The
@columhead = Career plans
"In future I will work in the areas I know well. In business I believe I can contribute particularly in property and resources." — Alan Bond, planning his future after being sentenced to four years in prison for stealing
By Shane Hopkinson
Last August, President Abdala Bucaram netted 54% of the vote. In office, the populist president recorded an album and gave concerts, auctioned his moustache in a benefit for the poor and launched a subsidised powdered milk
Office of the status of (one) woman?Office of the status of (one) woman?
On December 5, the Howard government abolished the Office of the Status of Women's $1 million grants scheme and cut its funding by 46%.
The cut, which will affect more
Left On-line
The Pacific on the web — With the possible demise of Radio Australia on the horizon perhaps you better store some of these sites in your bookmarks file so you can keep up with what's happening in the region. Pactok home page at
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