NTEU wins increase in permanent employment
By Tyrion Perkins
SYDNEY — Hundreds of fixed-term contracts are to be converted to permanent following an agreement the National Tertiary Education Industry Union has negotiated with the University of
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Feminist to contest Wollongong seat
WOLLONGONG — Angela Luvera will be standing in Wollongong for the Democratic Socialists in the March 27 state election. Luvera, a student member of Resistance, helped organise the high school walkouts against
Billions for BHP
BHP's 1998 report to shareholders says that in the year to May 31, the company had operating revenue of $22.479 billion, against raw material and other external costs of $11.864 billion.
The $10.615 billion difference or value
By Stephanie Roper
SYDNEY — The NSW Labor government recently proposed amendments to legislation to require the mandatory reporting of consensual sex between young people under the legal age of consent. The change is part of the proposed Children
Who owns Australia?
By Norm Dixon
The Salvation Army expects to help a record 100,000 families cope during the Christmas period. Other charities are gearing up to help similar numbers. The 1.7 million Australians who survive below the poverty
'A life of idleness' on work for the dole
By Tim Grey-Smith
The Coalition government's work for the dole scheme forces young people who have been unemployed for more than six months to do manual labour in order to receive their pittance of a dole
Review by Bernie Wunsch
Throwim Way Leg: An AdventureBy Tim FlanneryText Publishing, 1998 — 320 pp., $24.95 Review By Bernie Wunsch
"In New Guinea Pidgin, 'throwim way leg' means to go on a journey — to thrust out your leg for the first step
Who wants to live in South Park?
By Alison Dellit
South Park, originally commissioned as a video Christmas greeting, now boasts the most viewers of any cartoon in Australia, and is the highest rating program on SBS. More than a million people
A crucial time for East Timor
By Jon Land
Since the fall of the Suharto regime in May, a new phase of the independence struggle has developed within East Timor. Not since the invasion in 1975 have so many large pro-independence demonstrations,
Howard attempts to entrench youth wages
By Ruth Ratcliffe
The Howard government has proposed legislation which would entrench junior wages and extend them to the 200,000 workers under 21 who currently receive adult wages. The vast majority of
By Jim Green
SYDNEY — In September 1997, when the federal Coalition government announced the decision to build a new nuclear reactor in the southern Sydney suburb of Lucas Heights, a "stringent" environmental assessment was promised. Instead, the
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