BY GEOFF FRANCIS & PETER HICKS
Tasmanian nurses are fighting back after the state Labor government, under Premier Jim Bacon, closed another hospital, costing 50 jobs. Labor health minister Judy Jackson has announced that she will personally cross
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JOHANNESBURG — As part of the global protests to coincide with the September 26 (S26) protests in Prague against the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, more than 300 activists from numerous South African political and community
Competition, heart of the market
Corel is a Canadian company that produces software for the publishing
industry. Some of its products, such as CorelDraw and Ventura (a product
it bought rather than invented), are among the best in the
Fiji's military-backed interim administration plans to impose draconian new laws to counter the Fiji trade union movement's appeals for international solidarity for the democracy struggle. The regime, placed in power by the military during the coup
By Erin Cameron
ROCKHAMPTON — The Reclaim the Night committee and 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly held a successful joint feminist film afternoon on October 1, part of a series of events organised in the lead-up to this year's Reclaim the Night march.
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The nurse holds the X-ray up to the light, and the bullet that lodged in Mohammed Abu Faress' chest comes into focus, along with bright shards of shattered bone. "A few inches either way and he would have been dead", says Ahmed al-Jabali.
Amid the
Ginsberg: A BiographyBy Barry MilesVirgin, 2000627 pp., $24.95 (pb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
He "ruined a great many young people" with his 1956 poem, "Howl", with its "glorification of madness, drugs and homosexuality, and its contempt and hatred
BY CHRIS SPINDLER
MELBOURNE — As the picket line at the Arrowcrest-owned Brownbuilt factory here entered its fourth week, community activists and other unionists supporting the Brownbuilt workers targeted other sites owned by Arrowcrest.
At ROH
BY SEAN HEALY
There were no major announcements, no new policy initiatives, all the drama was outside with the protesters, and the meetings finished a full day early. Nevertheless, when the annual meetings of the World Bank and International
Victorian teachers offered sham agreement
BY NORRIAN RUNDLE & MICHAEL O'REILLY
MELBOURNE — After seven years of working under no certified agreement
on pay and conditions, Victorian teachers have finally been offered one
— but it
BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS
BRISBANE — The S11 protests were a massive success but there was much to learn from it for future efforts. That was the consensus of an S11 Alliance-sponsored public meeting held here on October 4, entitled "S11: After the
Harry's Gone FishingLeon RosselsonGadfly Records at <http://www.gadflyrecords.com>
REVIEW BY BILL NEVINS
Wry socialist-anarchism with a sharp historical eye and a taste for good, strong melody: that's the reputation of Leon Rosselson,
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