A campaign against the Liberals' attacks on education has been gathering momentum at the University of Queensland. More than 500 students rallied against cuts in education and to protest against police violence on campus on May 14. On May 24, the
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Unions slam maternity leave decision BRISBANE — Unions have criticised the state government's decision, announced on May 13, to grant six weeks' paid maternity leave to women in the Queensland public service. State Public Sector Federation
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If this is your first home-delivered copy of 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly, then you are one of the many progressive 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ readers who have decided to subscribe to the best alternative newspaper in Australia. Our May-June subscription campaign has already
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My friend "The vain eruditions of adulthood very often cast the light of scholarship so brightly that learning becomes little more than an academic spell ... that can only be broken by the innocent magic of a child's stated observations and
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James Vassilopolous The public sector — not guilty! If you're a public servant, a lot of important people, like John Howard, Ray Martin, John Laws, are trying to make you feel very guilty: guilty about a $6-$8 billion federal government
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Visit by Turkish feminist MELBOURNE — Around 30 women attended a meeting on May 7 with Turkish feminist and Freedom and Solidarity Party member Professor Sahika Yuksel from Istanbul University. The meeting was organised by the Immigrant
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Rally to the cause of the sick I've been overjoyed to read about the campaign against the attacks on the public service in the pages of 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳. Finally, after 12 years of passivity from the leadership of the union movement under Labor we are
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Equal pay and Howard's IR bill A comment by the chief executive of the Metal Trades Industry Association — the metal bosses' "union" — reveals employer thinking behind their hostility to paying women and men equal pay for work of equal value.
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Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Sunday, 4pm-7pm. Access News — Melbourne community TV, Channel 31,
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Before the May 30 national strike by members of the National Tertiary Education and Industry Union, Canberra Resistance member NICK SOUDAKOFF spoke to the union's Australian National University branch industrial organiser, NICK SELLARS, about the
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Nine years after its formation, the Victorian-based Rainbow Alliance has launched a discussion which will determine a new set of aims, a new structure and name, and possibly even its future existence. Over recent years, many
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SYDNEY — Since its election 14 months ago, the Carr government has continued the program of neo-liberal "reform" introduced by the previous Greiner/Fahey Liberal governments. The differences between the NSW Labor government and
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Since the federal election, business groups have lost no time in re-raising their arguments for a goods and services tax (GST). Having had to let it go after John Hewson's spectacularly unsuccessful bid to popularise the GST in the 1993 election,
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Last week, thousands of students joined rallies and marches organised by the National Union of Students (NUS) and cross-campus committees as part of a national week of action to protest against the federal government's proposed tertiary education
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Not since Mabo has there been such a campaign against native title. Recently, the West Australian devoted four pages to a supposed native title claim on an elderly couple's home in Boulder. According to Jesuit priest and lawyer
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If greed is so good, why can't I afford some? I was studying the Business Review Weekly this week to see if I got a mention: Ramray, Rathbone, Reid, Richter, Roberts, Roche, Roth, Rydge — but no Riley in the journal's list of Australia's 200
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On May 14, representatives from Australia's 36 universities met with senior officials from the Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs (DEETYA) to discuss the biggest cuts to higher education funding in
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MELBOURNE — Around 150 angry workers, indigenous people and environmentalists delayed CRA's annual general meeting at the Victorian Arts Centre for over an hour on May 22. Representatives from the CFMEU's mining and construction
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ROSEBERY — A massive, community-based battle has erupted over the threatened closure of the new hospital here on Tasmania's west coast. The state Department of Community and Health Services (DC&HS) announced on May 13 that it
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CANBERRA — ACT government workers are facing a concerted effort by the Carnell government to divide the work force through agency agreements. This will preparing the way for the sell-off of profitable 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ to big business. This
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MELBOURNE — A "wringout" for Fairlea Women's Prison at Fairfield on May 19 was a resounding demonstration of solidarity with the women imprisoned there and against the scheduled replacement of Fairlea by a private prison. The
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Defence of democracy "In extreme situations some rules have to be broken." — Georgy Kuznetsov, dean of the television and radio department of Moscow State University's journalism faculty, justifying media distortion and if necessary
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Anti-uranium mining activists around the country held protest actions last week to condemn the Howard government's decision to allow the opening of new uranium mines. From Sydney, Roberto Jorquera reports that more than 1000 people joined a noisy
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CANBERRA — Most workplaces in most federal departments have placed bans on the handling of government business and the administration of cuts, bans on doing the work of vacant positions, processing government revenue and the
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By Nigel D'Souza MELBOURNE — The election of the Howard government has had an inauspicious start for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia. The recent attacks against Aboriginal organisations under the rubric of
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MELBOURNE — The Victorian state council of the Liberal Party voted overwhelmingly on May 12 against decriminalising marijuana. While the vote is not binding on Liberal MPs, statements by leading parliamentarians, including
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SYDNEY — The largest ever public education conference on East Timor will be held here June 21-24, sponsored by the University of Sydney (School of Asian Studies), University of New South Wales (Centre for Human Rights) and University of Technology,
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SYDNEY — Building workers will strike around Australia on May 29, against cuts by the Howard government affecting their wages and those of apprentices and trainees. In a major slug to building workers' pay, Liberal treasurer
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ADELAIDE — Some 70 people attended the first Jason Porter memorial oration here on May 18. Jason Porter, an activist in Resistance, Community Aid Abroad and Campaign for an Independent East Timor, was killed while travelling through Indonesia in
World
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MOSCOW — There is nothing so capable of persuading "reformist" Russian President Boris Yeltsin to announce reforms as the prospect of being thrown out of his job. Since campaigning began in earnest for the June 16 election,
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MOSCOW — The 1986 accident at Chernobyl was not the first case in which the Soviet nuclear industry contrived to pour huge quantities of deadly radionuclides into the environment. In terms of total radioactivity released, the
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The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin in November started the race toward Israel's May 29 elections in earnest. As the elections drew closer, the lines between Labour — the so-called party of peace, which enjoys strong backing
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May Day events organised by the Worker-Communist Party of Iraq (WCPI) and other groups, in Iraqi Kurdistan, attracted more than 200,000 people. In one city, Duhok, armed forces belonging to the Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP) attacked a May 1
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Dozens of people in China have been arrested, some receiving long jail sentences, under laws which use a sweeping definition of "state secrets" as an excuse to stifle public scrutiny, according to the Amnesty International. Journalist
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The recognition by the British government's own advisory committee of a possible link between BSE ("mad cow disease") and the fatal CJD in humans threw the government into panic and turmoil. For the nine years that BSE was
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The murder and conspiracy trial of apartheid-era defence minister Magnus Malan and other top military officers in the Durban Supreme Court has heard evidence that the vicious terror campaigns conducted by the "third force" against the
Culture
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OthelloBy William ShakespeareDirected by Oliver ParkerStarring Kenneth Branagh, Laurence Fishburne, Irene JacobNow screeningReviewed by Natasha Simons Whatever your likes or prejudices regarding Shakespeare, put them away when seeing this 1995 film
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ImagoBy Francesca Rendle-ShortSpinifex Press, 1996. 230 pp., $16.95Reviewed by Carla Gorton "To wait ... is in a sense to be powerless. If we grow weary of waiting, we can go on a journey." (Mary Morris, Maiden Voyages). This epigraph introduces
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Vacant PossessionWritten and directed By Margot NashOpens May 23 Melbourne, August 9 HobartReviewed By Kim Linden Vacant Possession intertwines memories, dreams, reality, the past and the present, all culminating in a vivid story about the concept of
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SYDNEY — An international environmental film festival, the Paddy Pallin Wild Spaces, will be held in Newtown on June 1-2. Festival director Gary Caganoff says that the festival is designed to entertain, inform, reflect the concerns of communities,
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One in 10: Women Living with Breast CancerBy Diana WardAllen & Unwin, 1996. 274 pp., $16.95Reviewed by Linda Kaucher One in 10 women will develop breast cancer at some stage, hence the title of Di Ward's book. I met Di Ward at the anarchist
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A Compilation of Human Rights Abuses Against the People of Bougainville, 1989-1996, Volume 2Compiled by Marilyn Taleo HaviniPublished by the Bougainville Interim Government, Sydney, 1996Available from PO Box 134, Erskineville NSW 2043 (fax/phone 02
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Towards Peace: A Worker's JourneyBy Phil O'BrienSHAPE, 1992. 224 pp., $5 (plus $2 postage)Reviewed by Lisa Macdonald Phil O'Brien was a soldier for six years, a waterside worker and trade unionist for 30 years and an antiwar campaigner almost all
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A Woman's PlaceBy Edwina CurrieHodder and Stoughton, 1996. 454 pp.$39.95 (hb) (also available in paperback)Reviewed by Tony Smith In this sequel to the steamy A Parliamentary Affair, Elaine Stalker MP climbs the greasy pole of the English ministry.
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An Australian mouse squeaks petulantly at the distant Lion as its bombs insult the peaceful ocean, degrading both the culture of origin and the hapless victims of "collateral" damage, deformed babies coral reefs and birds, mutant fish
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Inside Burma — Land of FearBy John Pilger and David MunroABC TV, June 5, 8.30pm (8 in SA)Reviewed by Eva Cheng For people who know little of the current political situation in Burma, Pilger and Munro's Land of Fear can provide a quick effective