A large carbon tax would have a damaging effect on Australian industry, according to a study released in January 1992 by the consultancy London Economics. The report was partly sponsored by BHP, CRA, Shell Australia, the Australian Mining
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As part of an international agreement signed in Toronto in 1988, the federal government committed Australia to a 20% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2005. But a new round of debate over Australia's energy and environment policies
The leak last week of an Australian government document on corruption involving the family of Indonesian President Suharto tells only a small part of the story. A 300-page report on the human rights situation in Indonesia, released last month by
Another 'Whitrod case' hits Queensland police By Bill Mason BRISBANE — Queensland Police Commissioner Noel Newnham has been forced to stand down while allegations of misuse of travel expenses are investigated by an independent tribunal, as
Deterring Democracy By Noam Chomsky Verso, 1991. 421 pp. $49.95 (hb) Reviewed by Phil Shannon The Cold War is over. The Soviet Beast is slain. Now all the happy citizens of the New World Order can live in peace, freedom and democracy. This,
The Stories of Eva Luna By Isabel Allende Penguin, 1991. 227 pp. $12.95 Reviewed by Mario Giorgetti Told in the hyperbolic style of folktales, the stories in this volume are diverse and colourful. In structure, some of them are not unlike
Winds of change "A man cannot keep the same views all his life. It's a natural process. But I have changed profoundly only once." — Leonid Kravchuk, former leading figure in the Ukrainian Communist Party, now nationalist president of the
Ok Tedi pollution slammed By Norm Dixon The BHP-controlled Ok Tedi gold and copper mine in Papua New Guinea's Western Province has been found guilty of seriously polluting the Ok Tedi and Fly rivers through its disregard for environmental
The social and environmental costs of large-scale tree planting to help deal with global warming far outweigh the likely benefits, according to a Friends of the Earth report published on March 1. The report, Deserts of Trees, reveals that
By Steve Painter Britain could emerge from its April 9 general election with a minority government. While the ruling Conservatives are very unpopular in the midst of the worst economic slump since the Great Depression, Labour appears unable to
There is an increasingly noisy argument going on among leading ideologists of the right. The conservative journal Quadrant has been running a debate on the failure of economic "rationalism", former Liberal prime minister Malcolm Fraser has warned
By Debbie Sewell DARWIN — The Lusitania Expresso set sail from Darwin on Monday, March 9 heading for Dili to lay floral wreaths at the Santa Cruz cemetery, site of a massacre by Indonesian forces on November 12 last year. Songs of freedom
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