BY SUE BULL
GEELONG — Union leaders have described as a great success a strike by Deakin University staff, who walked off the job on April 5 to protest against stalled enterprise bargaining negotiations. Michael Pegg, Victorian assistant
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While the Australian government seeks to avoid its obligations under United Nations conventions against racial discrimination in regards to mandatory sentencing, it is trying to toughen the terms of another UN convention to further narrow the
A faux pas
So there is no such thing as a stolen generation? Maybe what we have here is a failure to communicate. It's all a misunderstanding. Or maybe the government got its dates mixed up — "Oh, you mean that generation. But there were so
LOS ANGELES, California — This was the year California schools went test-crazy. In every district, students have taken the new state-mandated STAR (Standardised Testing and Reporting) test by the thousands. Based on their scores, every school in
Police crack down on anti-IMF/World Bank activists
WASHINGTON — It was around 8 o'clock last Thursday evening [March 30] when the buzzer rang in activist Adam Eidinger's apartment. Thinking that some of his fellow activists had arrived a bit
MADRID — What Have I Done to Deserve This? is the title of a popular movie directed by Spanish film-maker Pedro Almodovar. This is a question that I have often asked myself since living in Spain. I was born in Chile, left in 1975 following Augusto
BY ANDY GIANNIOTIS
WOLLONGONG — A proposal to unite the different threads of environmental action in the Illawarra into one "super-group" was adopted unanimously at a public meeting at Macabe Park on March 19. Organised by the Illawarra
Forest activists occupy Timbercorp
MELBOURNE — Forest campaigners from Friends of the Earth (FoE) occupied the offices of Timbercorp here to protest against the company's destruction of one-third of red tail black cockatoo nesting sites at a
Alternative economic program
The People's Democratic Party (PRD) says that the government does have alternatives to slavishly following the International Monetary Fund's austerity prescription for Indonesia's ailing economy. Its alternative
SWEDEN: Parliament acknowledges Armenian genocide
SWEDEN: Parliament acknowledges Armenian genocide
Sweden's parliament on March 29 formally acknowledged the Armenian and Assyrian genocide, committed by the Ottoman Empire in 1915. During World
Top food manufacturers shifting from GMOs
Federal agriculture minister Warren Truss argues that Australia should continue with trials of genetically modified crops in order to avoid "missing the boat on the new science". However, in Europe, many
ENGLAND: British Nuclear fooled again
The problems facing British Nuclear Fuels Ltd (BNFL) continue to mount. On April 2 it was revealed that four workers at BNFL's Sellafield plant in north-west England were sacked for forging entry passes. The
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