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The fire in Nina Simone

The fire in Nina Simone Nina Simone, the Legend Masterpiece, SBS Television Monday, September 13, 8.30 p.m. (8.00 Adelaide) Reviewed by Ignatius Kim "I refuse to call it jazz even though the whole world calls it jazz. It was a term

PSA accepts enterprise bargaining deal

PSA accepts enterprise bargaining deal By Trish Corcoran ADELAIDE — A mass meeting of the South Australian Public Service Association, held on August 26, voted to accept a package proposed by the state government. The package

Call to lift ban on Pramoedya's work

Call to lift ban on Pramoedya's work According to an August 23 Jakarta Post report, 70 leading Indonesian authors and artists have asked the government to lift its ban on the publication of the works of Pramoedya Ananta Toer, whose novels have

Sixteen sacked over safety issue

Sixteen sacked over safety issue By Elle Morrell MELBOURNE — Sixteen steel fixers and carpenters have been sacked from a construction site at St Vincents Hospital for taking a stand over a safety issue. When a three-metre iron

How can we defend education?

By Jorge Jorquera Several thousand students around the country demonstrated on August 10 against the federal government's latest attacks on higher education. Smaller protests have since followed in a number of cities. But most of these protests

ACTU avoids stand on Indonesian fake union

By Max Lane SYDNEY — Indonesian and Australian activists and trade unionists failed in their efforts to put a resolution before the ACTU Congress stating support for the newly forming independent worker organisations in Indonesia and opposing

Attack on political bookshop

Attack on political bookshop SYDNEY — Swastikas and right-wing threats were spray painted across the front if the Pathfinder Bookshop in Surry Hills on the night of August 30. Supporters of the bookshop are calling on defenders of democratic

In the stars

In the stars By Lucifer Skycrawler What's in the stars? Hydrogen, mostly. Helium too, especially in the older ones. Traces of heavier elements. Oh yes: heat, lots of it. So it's certainly not surprising that the stars can determine

The reconstructed, best practice moomen

This is the edited text of a speech given by PEGGY TROMPF to a meeting in Sydney on September 1 organised by the Rank and File Alliance. On Monday, I listened to the speeches of the president and secretary of the ACTU as they opened the