By Max Lane
As the first parliament under the Howard government gets under way, everybody is waiting to see how Howard's axe will fall. Howard, industrial relations minister Peter Reith and treasurer Peter Costello have already done a lot of
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By Jennifer Thompson
Workers at CRA-owned Novacoal's Vickery mine are still on strike after the federal Industrial Relations Commission arbitrated on April 24 in favour of management, allowing the introduction of 12-hour shifts for a six-month
Feminists organise toys for Cuba
MELBOURNE — Radical Women, a socialist feminist organisation, has appealed to Australian supporters of Cuba to contribute to the 1996 Cuban Children's Day Toy Appeal. The appeal, an initiative of the Federation
By Melanie Sjoberg
ADELAIDE — More than 1000 people rallied at Noarlunga in the southern suburbs on May 8 as part of the campaign against the state Liberal government's cuts to education. Around 100 schools were closed as part of the rolling
New Zealanders have recently been hit by electricity price rises of up to 29%. The opposition Alliance says these rises are a consequence of the corporatisation and privatisation of power companies. Alliance energy spokesperson and deputy leader
OSLO — The Norwegian government ignored scientific findings and flouted international norms to set a quota of 425 on the north-east Atlantic population of minke whales on May 4, according to Greenpeace Norway. In 1982, the International Whaling
Comment by Greg Adamson
The latest round of Community and Public Sector Union mass meetings against Howard's threatened 10% cut to the Australian public sector showed that the mood for a fight is strong among broad sectors of public sector workers.
Making the laws work
Making sexual harassment an offence under the law has been a positive step for women. However, as we are constantly reminded, it is only one step in creating a society free of sexual harassment.
On April 24, the Australian
By Nick Fredman
SYDNEY — A range of groups promoting solidarity with the East Timorese struggle for self-determination are holding events over the next few weeks. These events are designed to help build the August 25 National Day of Solidarity,
NINA LANSBURY visited Iran in November. Here she presents some of her observations. I had an eerie feeling of living within my novel. I was reading George Orwell's 1984, and each time I glanced up from the pages of Big Brother, the large and always
By Ben Reid
MELBOURNE — An estimated 2000 workers from the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) attended a stop-work meeting on May 8. Meetings were also held in other centres. The purpose was to reaffirm the union's push for a 15% pay rise
What is Nature?: Culture, Politics and the non-HumanBy Kate SoperBlackwell, 1995. 289 pp. $39.95Reviewed by Neville Spencer Concepts of what nature is and of what counts as natural feature both explicitly and implicitly in much progressive political
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