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Tasmania decriminalises homosexuality

By Tony Iltis and Kath Gelber HOBART — On May 1 Tasmanian legislative councillors voted almost unanimously to repeal that state's anti-gay laws, bringing Tasmania into line with the rest of Australia. The decision is a victory for a nine-year

Government scheme to fiddle Senate numbers

By Allen Myers The federal Liberal Party is looking into ways of changing the voting system for the Senate, according to reports in the Bulletin and the Sydney Morning Herald. The aim would be to ensure that governments would normally have a

In defence of Melbourne University NTEU

By Andy Blunden I object to the level to which GLW has sunk in its support for the International Socialist Organisation's provocation at Melbourne University last month. The April 16 article by Jo Williams and Ben Reid says that the

University seizes control of student organisations

By Nick Fredman LISMORE — The council of Southern Cross University (SCU) has appointed a management committee to "manage the affairs" of the student bodies. Students have strongly condemned the action and are organising to return control to

Greenpeace exposes Russian dioxin peril

By Renfrey Clarke MOSCOW — You're a worker in an industrial city of provincial Russia, and you haven't been paid in months. You and your family would starve if it weren't for the vegetables you raise in a garden plot on the outskirts of town.

Shellharbour protest picnic

Shellharbour protest picnic By Margaret Perrott WOLLONGONG — Fifty people gathered at Bass Point, overlooking beautiful Shellharbour Beach, for a picnic and protest against a proposed marina development on April 20. The action was

Campaign against Eastern Ring Road relaunched

Campaign against Eastern Ring Road relaunched By Marcel Cameron MELBOURNE — Two hundred people attended an Anti-Ring Road Organisation (ARRO) public meeting in Eltham on April 30 to relaunch the campaign against the proposed Eastern Ring

Chinese community combats Hanson

Chinese community combats Hanson By Graham Matthews BRISBANE — Following the April 11 launch of Pauline Hanson's racist One Nation party in Ipswich, Â鶹´«Ã½ of the Australian-Chinese community have lodged a protest with the Australian

Write on: Letters to the editor

Win-win-win education University administrations say they are forced by funding cutbacks to sell courses to full fee-paying students. With at least equal truth, HECS-paying students say this will reduce the quality of their education through

Indonesians strike at Nike

Indonesians strike at Nike Four thousand workers from one of the franchised Nike shoe assembly plants went on strike and demonstrated on three separate days in Jakarta at the end of April. According to the daily newspaper Republika, workers were

Queensland teachers vote for rolling strikes

Queensland teachers vote for rolling strikes By Bill Mason @box text intro = BRISBANE — Queensland teachers have voted overwhelmingly for a campaign of rolling 24-hour strikes in state schools to demand better pay and to protest the

Evading the real issues

By Ben Reid and Jo Williams Andy Blunden's attempt to justify his selling of the enterprise bargain agreement to NTEU members at Melbourne University (above) evades the real issues. The opposition to the agreement from wide sectors of the union