By Alex Bainbridgeand Joshua Kelcey
HOBART — The Tasmanian Labor government of Jim Bacon brought down its first budget on November 5. Unusual in these days of economic rationalism, the largest funding increase was for education; spending on
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By Stephanie Roper
SYDNEY — The NSW Labor government recently proposed amendments to legislation to require the mandatory reporting of consensual sex between young people under the legal age of consent. The change is part of the proposed Children
Save Tasmania's forests!
HUON VALLEY — About 250 people on November 29 attended a forest picnic in the Tahune Reserve, in Tasmania's south-western forest, organised by the Wilderness Society as part of the campaign to stop logging in old-growth
Solidarity from the other side of the world
By Lynda Hansen
BRISBANE — A mammoth music fest to raise funds for victims of hurricane Mitch in Central America is being organised by Radio 4ZZZ, IWW and the Paddington Workers Club. Funds raised
'A life of idleness' on work for the dole
By Tim Grey-Smith
The Coalition government's work for the dole scheme forces young people who have been unemployed for more than six months to do manual labour in order to receive their pittance of a dole
Splash ... gurgle ... gurgle
A new year is soon to be born, remain with us for 12 months and then, I'm sure, depart like all the others. But the one that is soon to leave us, this year of 1998, was it a good year as good years go, do you think?
No reconciliation with racism!
After massively cutting the budget of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, extinguishing native title in all but name and giving the go-ahead to the destruction of Aboriginal women's sacred sites on
Feminist to contest Wollongong seat
WOLLONGONG — Angela Luvera will be standing in Wollongong for the Democratic Socialists in the March 27 state election. Luvera, a student member of Resistance, helped organise the high school walkouts against
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — On November 27, a Supreme Court judge here refused to order the release pending trial of Grigory Pasko, a Vladivostok naval journalist charged with treason after reporting on the dumping of nuclear waste by the Russian
Howard attempts to entrench youth wages
By Ruth Ratcliffe
The Howard government has proposed legislation which would entrench junior wages and extend them to the 200,000 workers under 21 who currently receive adult wages. The vast majority of
Ramos Horta: 'A common struggle'
By Liam Mitchell
SYDNEY — The links between the struggle for freedom in East Timor and democracy in Indonesia were the focus of public meetings in Sydney and Melbourne on November 28 and December 3. Both
See you next year
This is last issue of 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly for this year. We will be back after a break, with the first issue for 1999 to be published on January 20. Don't miss it!
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