Independence DayDirected by Roland EmmerichAustralian cinema release August 29Canadian BaconDirected by Michael MooreReleased on video, 1996Reviewed by Greg Adamson Canadian Bacon, John Candy's last film, is a humorous and startling look at the US
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The circles that matter
"[ACTU secretary Bill Kelty] still commands respect in many circles and will find among his strongest defenders businessmen such as Lindsay Fox." — Brad Norington, writing in the Sydney Morning Herald, September 4.
By Daniel Kelly
With the 1996 federal budget, the Howard government released Reforming Employment Assistance, a ministerial statement by Senator Amanda Vanstone, minister for employment, education, training and youth affairs (DEETYA). The statement
Brisbane council delays decision on Murarrie plan
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — The City Council has delayed a final decision on approval for BHP's proposed metal-coating facility at Murarrie, reverting to its original deadline of November 5. The
By Norm Dixon
As a national strike by 165,000 public sector workers entered its third week, the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) warned the government that workers in the private sector would also walk out if it continued to refuse to
Philippine union fights railway privatisation
By Reihana Mohideen
MANILA — The "bonanza sale" of public assets has been described as a new form of colonising the Third World. The Ramos government in the Philippines, with Ramos describing
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Workers at one of Russia's largest atomic power plants won another round late in August in a long-running battle to force management and the government to keep wage payments up to date. Protest action at the Leningrad
The story so far
Synopsis, being a summary of what has gone before, for the benefit of new readers:
BILL CLINTON, a presidential nominee, conceives the project of executing a salutary missile strike to mark the consequences of wrongdoing and
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 Thursday, 7pm.
Access News — Melbourne community TV, Channel 31,
Enterprise agreement rejected
By Russell Pickering
SYDNEY — A meeting of more than 300 Department of Public Works and Services (DPWS) wages staff in Granville in Sydney's west on September 3 overwhelmingly rejected the department's enterprise
Global merchants of death
Tobacco has become a political issue in the 1996 presidential campaign. First, Republican candidate Bob Dole, while speaking in a tobacco-growing state, said that many smokers never become addicted to nicotine. This is
French unionists oppose deportations
Thousands marched in protest at the French government's tough immigration policies on August 28. The demonstrators, led by Communist Party leader Robert Hue, dissident former bishop Jacques Gaillot and human
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