By Jennifer Thompson
A part of Israel's strategy to make its exclusive control of Jerusalem a fait accompli is the pressure being applied for all Palestinian Authority activity to cease in the city as a precondition to Israeli withdrawal from
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By Gerry Harant
Twenty years ago, when I was part of a team working on a major project with the Wool and Textile Division of CSIRO in Geelong, I first heard of the idea of robotic sheep shearing. Having watched shearers at work, I understood a
By Nick Soudakoff
CANBERRA — At the centre of a heated debate here in the campaign against the Liberals' attacks on education has been the question of whether or not students should occupy the ANU chancellery building. Members of the
Amanda Vanstone, (Lib) Employment Minister: Oops! Sorry. There I go again. You know me. I'm as blunt as they come. But hang on. Don't go rushing to judge us too harshly now. It's still early days. We are burdened with this terrible — truly
By Barry Healy
SYDNEY — The Waterloo incinerator in Sydney's south-east is still operating despite increasing pressure to have it shut down from the state government, the NSW Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) and other critics. The
Hindmarsh Island bridge campaign plans
By Carla Gorton
ADELAIDE — Aboriginal and community activists opposed to the construction of the Hindmarsh Island bridge are planning some high-profile actions for November. A public meeting is scheduled
If you have attended a left political event around Sydney in the last eight years, you almost certainly have heard PETER HICKS singing his and GEOFF FRANCIS' songs about Bougainville, East Timor, Sydney's airport noise, plus working-class songs which
Tasmanian case goes to High Court
By Kath Gelber
On September 10, Tasmanian activists took their campaign to repeal state anti-gay laws to the High Court. The court has been requested to hear a case which will seek to declare the laws invalid on
Stop press
The Australian Bureau of Statistics last week released a study which showed that rich people were more likely to have a personal computer at home than poor people. The story made the front page of the Financial Review.
No beating
Oil company sued over Burma
The US oil company Unocal is being sued to block construction of a US$1.2 billion pipeline in Burma. The Centre for Human Rights and Constitutional Law, on behalf of the Federation of Burmese Trade Unions, charges the
By Dick Nichols
The federal government has already eliminated more than 15,000 jobs in the Australian Public Service (APS). At least another 10,500 are to go by June 1997. Telstra workers are staring at job losses on a similar scale. Faced with
Last week many were outraged when government funds, via the Australian Council of the Arts, were used to finance the reviewers writing for the newspaper lift-out, the Australian's Review of Books.
Among those criticising the move were smaller
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