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For a shorter work week with no loss in pay

By Jennifer Thompson On July 18, at the Manufacturing Workers Union national delegates' conference, ACTU secretary Bill Kelty raised an old labour movement standard 鈥� a shorter working week to share work around. Australian workers haven't heard

Loose cannons

Opportunity "A great opportunity to get everyone to buy the same thing twice." 鈥� The head of a graphic design consultancy on why the logo for the Sydney 2000 Olympics is being redesigned. Radical idea "The whole idea that public education

Wollongong SRC

By Toby Hawker and Nikki Ulasowski As part of the campaign against cuts to education funding by the Howard government, Resistance at Wollongong University initiated a meeting of all left activists interested in running in the SRC elections. The

Something different

If you are one of the new readers who picked up this newspaper at the August 19 day of action against the Coalition government's attacks on our rights and living standards, then welcome to 麻豆传媒 Weekly. This is a special anti-budget issue of

FSLN support climbs

By Stephen Marks MANAGUA 鈥� Support for FSLN presidential candidate Daniel Ortega has climbed 10 points to 30%, according to a poll released on July 30. The main right-wing candidate, Arnoldo Alem谩n of the Liberal Alliance, remains steady

Fighting Howard

By Dick Nichols The Sydney Morning Herald calls it the "return of the rally", the wave of anti-Howard actions that have convulsed politics over the last three months. But while the Herald writers look for clever explanations for this "sea-change in

The population bunk

How Many People Can the Earth Support?By Joel E. CohenNorton532 pp, $30Reviewed by Chase Madar In 1798, a dour young cleric named Thomas Robert Malthus invented overpopulation. The growing numbers of poor, he wrote in Essay on the Principle of

Marion Heloise Studdert

Veteran political activist and environmentalist Marion Studdert died on July 29, following a 13-month battle with complications after an operation for cancer. Marion's political involvement began in 1941 when, aged 18, she joined the Communist Party

Write on: Letters to the editor

Civil liberties What do gun control and Russell Cooper's proposal for "Youth Curfews" have in common? Gross violations of Civil Liberties. Add to this gross interference with the right to Trial by Jury and the Freedom of Information Act; Gareth

Protests against child-care changes

By Kamala Emanuel and Melanie Sjoberg Some 250 people attended a Who Cares About Child-care? rally in Newcastle on August 4 organised by Central Coast-Hunter Regional Family Day Care (FDC) to protest against the federal government's proposed

Resistance Centre celebrates 10th birthday

14 = Resistance Centre celebrates 10th birthday By Bill Mason BRISBANE 鈥� The Brisbane Resistance Centre celebrated its 10th anniversary with a lively night on August 10. Some 100 people packed in to hear Ant McKenna, Isis, and Chris Anderson

Big crowd at July 19 rally

By Stephen Marks MANAGUA 鈥� More than 50,000 people overflowed the Plaza of the Revolution here on July 19. By bicycle, on foot, in buses and trucks, people streamed into the plaza from all directions to mark the 17th anniversary of the Sandinista