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Centrelink job cuts, outsourcing continue

By Jim McIlroy BRISBANE — Service delays and staffing shortages have increased in Centrelink offices as the Howard government refuses to retreat on the 5000 job cuts it has imposed on the "social security" agency. Centrelink printing operations

Land and Freedom

Land and Freedom Socialist director Ken Loach's marvellous film about the Spanish Civil War is at last coming to television. Land and Freedom tells the story of David, young and unemployed, who leaves Liverpool to join an international brigade of

Write on: Letters to the editor

Write on: Letters to the editor Racism GLW (January 20) quotes Acting Queensland Premier Jim Elder, commenting on a 14-year-old Aboriginal girl being locked up in a police watch-house for a week, saying "The simple solution is don't break the

Playground cop

By Danny Fairfax SYDNEY — In a return to policies from the 1950s, the NSW government has proposed a new crackdown on truancy. It says truancy is "chronic", but in fact fewer than 0.5% of NSW students are regular truants. The government is

Correction

Correction The review of the book Lost Civilisations of the Stone Age printed in the last issue of GLW was incorrectly attributed to Robert Hodder. The review was in fact written by Maree Roberts.

Life of Riley: And I should know

And I should know Take your everyday unemployed person. Now there's a sight! Round shouldered, pig ignorant, doesn't know chalk from cheese. And surly! You wouldn't believe how surly! And they wonder why they can't get a job. According to them,

Hobart rally backs republic

Hobart rally backs republic By Nikki Ulasowskiand Tony Iltis HOBART — Later this year a referendum will be held on whether Australia should become a republic. On January 26, a pro-republic rally held at the state Parliament House Lawns

Thousands mark Invasion Day

Thousands mark Invasion Day The capitalist establishment and mass media organised spectaculars throughout the country on January 26 to celebrate the uninvited arrival of a bunch of scruffy British naval officers, prison guards and convicts at

If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution

By Zanny Begg The Alternative Life Style Organisation's choice of theme for the January 23 gay and lesbian dance party in Melbourne — "Red Raw" — has been controversial. Red Raw was billed as a "revolutionary dance party", and the publicity

Solidarity rally planned for locked-out workers

Solidarity rally planned for locked-out workers By Chris Slee MELBOURNE The Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union (TCFUA) is planning a stop-work rally of its Victorian members to express solidarity with workers at the Australian Dyeing Company

Looking out: Academic freedom

Academic freedom By Brandon Astor Jones "Responsible journalism is journalism responsible in the last analysis to the editor's own conviction of what, whether interesting or only important, is in the public interest." — Walter Lippmann,

A history of contraception

A history of contraception By Sarah Cleary Taking Precautions: the story of contraceptionA touring exhibition from the Powerhouse Museum, SydneyShowing at the Western Australian Museum until March 1. For thousands of years, women around the world