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Columnist discovers the heroic Colston

By Allen Myers The things you'd never know if you didn't read the Sydney Morning Herald! For example, check your knowledge of current events by answering the following multiple choice question: Mal Colston is: (a) the biggest rorter in the

Guild blocks education campaign at UNSW

Guild blocks education campaign at UNSW By Melanie Bull SYDNEY — The education campaign on the University of NSW has run into a major obstacle: the student guild. Late last year a position paper, "Options 2000", released by the UNSW

ALP scuttles Brisbane student demo

ALP scuttles Brisbane student demo By Lana Halpin and Kathy Newnam BRISBANE — On May 8 a national day of action has been called against the education funding cuts. The Queensland Education Action Network (QEAN) has been meeting over the

Kelty and Quinn — not so strange bedfellows

An honest and proud man devastated by his ordeal. This was how ACTU secretary Bill Kelty described former Coles Myer boss Brian Quinn found guilty of defrauding the company of several million dollars. Kelty joined with Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett

Rally demands real jobs

Rally demands real jobs By Nicole Hilder WOLLONGONG — A "No Work for the Dole" rally organised by Resistance and the Democratic Socialist Party was held at Wollongong Mall on April 19. More than 100 people came to the event, which was

And ain't i a woman?: Networking

NetworkingNetworking Corporate life can be stressful for a woman. Taking over half a dozen companies, closing a $2 million deal, retrenching a few thousand "unproductive" workers — all on top of having to think of the menu for the next

Loose cannons

Insensitive "One would have hoped that they could have found a good British company to run the agency. Some of our old boys will regard it as terribly insensitive." — An official of the Royal British Legion, on news that a German company has

On the box

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, 10pm and Saturday, 7pm. Access News — Melbourne

Arguments for socialism: Capitalism and the ecological crisis

By Dave Holmes The ecological crisis is perhaps the strongest argument for socialism. Despite the business-as-usual attitude of the capitalist media, this is not just one more crisis: it is a looming catastrophe that threatens the survival of

WA unions: 'April 29 is only round one'

By Anthony Benbow PERTH — WA Premier Richard Court and labour minister Graham Kierath claim to take their jobs seriously. After a hard week at the office ramming the "third wave" anti-union legislation through the lower house without debate,

Cruising the Chocolate Supa Highway

Chocolate Supa HighwaySpearhead Capitol Records Review by Sujatha Fernandes Chocolate Supa Highway may not live up to the funkiness of Spearhead's last album Home, and it may lack the confrontational political appeal of the Disposable Heroes of

What's happened to Greenpeace?

By Lisa Macdonald Greenpeace, founded in 1971 by anti-nuclear activists in Canada, is today the dominant environment organisation worldwide. What Greenpeace does and how it does it shapes, to a large extent, public consciousness about the major