Feminists on the University of Tasmania need to begin a fight to defend the women's officer position, following a proposal by the Student Representative Council to integrate the post's functions into the duties of a general welfare officer.
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Eighty supporters of Solidarity for the Acehnese Peoples Movement, mostly non-Acehnese, held a protest in Jalan Thamrin, a central Jakarta thoroughfare, on August 7.
The demonstration, which included supporters from the People's Democratic Party,
BY SUE BOLTON
"An historic moment for the left in Australia" was the most common comment made by participants in the founding conference of the Socialist Alliance in Melbourne over the August 4-5 weekend.
This is not the first attempt to unite
BY STUART MARTIN
WOLLONGONG — Determined to outsource maintenance work at its Port Kembla steelworks, BHP executives announced on August 7 that 436 jobs in the general and rail maintenance crews are to be axed and the contracts for them handed to
BY SEAN HEALY
As if the World Trade Organisation's Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights agreement wasn't stringent enough, a new study of bilateral trade treaties has found that many contain even stronger protections of corporations'
BY NICK EVERETT
SYDNEY — The 350 workers employed by the Marrickville-based car components maker TriStar Steering and Suspension won victory on August 8 in their dispute over pay and the protection of their entitlements. Militant action forced
Who's Afraid of the Working Class?Written by Andrew Bovell, Patricia Cornelius, Melissa Reeves and Christos TsiolkasDirected by Tanya DennyNew Theatre, Sydney
Playing until September 1
REVIEW BY BRENDAN DOYLE
"Strong language", the program
Fascinating bore
"In a boring way, he's fascinating" — comment on Prime Menzies John Howard by "one of his closest advisers", reported in the August 4-5 Australian Financial Review.
Prefers being hostage to financiers
"I would imagine that if
Stott Despoja
Political spin doctoring does have its limitations not the least being that facts are often so easily verifiable by reference to documents of record such as Hansard.
Alison Dellit compounds her initial errors of fact and analysis in
BY SARAH PEART
MELBOURNE — "We need to fight in the factories and in the communities to build a new international movement that is strong enough to take on the bosses' system", Martin Mitterhauser, an anti-corporate activist just back from last
BY KAMALA EMANUEL
Tasmanian abortion services may be set to improve, with health minister Judy Jackson offering to investigate the possibility of public funding for the establishment of a new abortion clinic. This is a significant victory for
These are born in your children. They go fishing. They shake everything out. Once there were men and women who tried to hide history, to bury it in the bed of the sea where they believed sound sleep possible. Their hands were huge but not real. They
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