Before the damming of the Franklin River became a national issue in the early '80s, Comalco would boast that its aluminium smelter at Bell Bay in northern Tasmania consumed as much power as the city of Adelaide. Although the
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"My eyes turned toward Panguna on the right. I was almost shocked by the size of the crater; it was kilometers wide! Entire villages and gardens, mountains, traditions and memories had been dug out and replaced by an enormous
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Ferguson gags Bougainville addressAn invitation to Rosemarie Gillespie to speak about Australia's involvement in the war on Bougainville at a conference of regional Trades and Labour Councils, held at the Clyde Cameron
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The war against the people of Bougainville has been accepted on the agenda of the United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) for this year in Geneva. The Bougainville interim government representative to the UN, Mike
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"'All these years we've given our kids everything they've wanted. All of a sudden we felt like an insect that was going to get walked on — he hit the bottle. We fought, the kids got upset, I walked out with a black eye.' —
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Speaking on Radio New Zealand's Morning Report program on February 15, Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Paias Wingti turned truth on its head. "Paias Wingti claimed that there was no blockade of Bougainville, that PNG troops
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"The company's intention to extend the further utilisation of supplementaries [casuals] at the expense of permanent employees is yet a further example of the confrontationist tactics and policies within the stevedoring industry
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"The role of sport in our country has become a priority because it is the first phase of unifying the youth in our country. We see sport as the beginning to implement all of our policies, through the youth and other organs in
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NZ Alliance wins union backingThe Alliance, after a strong showing in New Zealand's November general election, is beginning to win union backing previously reserved for the conservative Labour Party. A round of talks with
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"I know very well that there are many people that have very good reason to believe me to be bad tempered and an arrogant bastard. You can judge a man by his friends ... but you can also judge a man by his enemies — I've got a
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Australia is at war. In fact, it has been for five years, only it hasn't been declared to the people of Australia. The "enemy" are the indigenous people on the small island of Bougainville, just to the north of the Solomon
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Refugee from PNG repressionLillian Crofts, the first Bougainvillean to be granted refugee status by the Australian government, has challenged claims that she would not be persecuted if she returned. "Claims by the