Month: September 2018

SYDNEY UNIVERSITY management have made an interim pay offer of 4 percent. The offer came through the afternoon before an NTEU members meeting which was planning to discuss possible industrial action unless the University started to negotiate seriously. The offer, to be followed by “a substantial additional offer”, was not accepted by the members meeting. It was conditional on the NTEU agreeing to industrial peace until 1 May next year and would allow the University to drag out negotiations on conditions. Many members were concerned that there was no detail of funding for the offer. With work unit budgets are […]

“HE IS a man of the people,” John Howard said as he promoted Major-General Michael Jeffery to the position of Governor-General. The media lauded Jeffery as a “safe” and “modern” choice. In reality Jeffery is a deeply elitist and conservative figure who embodies John Howard’s vision of Australia. MILITARISM “I believe passionately that Vietnam was a just cause in the circumstances of the time.” Jeffery was awarded the Victoria Cross for his role in killing Vietnamese freedom fighters. His citation boasts of “the heavy losses inflicted on the enemy” during his time there. He later commanded the elite SAS for […]