WA legislation rammed throughPERTH 鈥 The Court government rushed its Land (Titles and Traditional Usage) Bill through the Legislative Council in an all-night debate that finished early on the morning of November 25.
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National debt It is time that the left-wing movements recognised the fundamentalism they are prone to, and took steps to remedy it. They cannot continue to ignore the "production" side of the economy. There is a bottom line; we must try to stay
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UDO SCHUEKLENK is a member of an international group of biomedical scientists, gay activists and persons with AIDS. The policy statement of the group reads: "It is widely believed by the general public that a retrovirus called HIV causes the group of
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SYDNEY 鈥 Metalworkers' delegates gathered at two meetings on November 24 as part of a national response by the Metal Trades Federation of Unions (MTFU) to delays by the Metal Trades Industry Association (MTIA) in settling the
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"In Mabo the High Court finally removed terra nullius [the premise that Australia was uninhabited at the time of its "settlement"] from Australian common law. I don't want to be part of a 1993 terra nullius, and I'm far from
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The 30-year US blockade of Cuba, recently condemned by the United Nations General Assembly, fits into a long history of US interference with the island. This is excellently summarised in Noam Chomsky's book Year 501, which devotes
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Issue 122 of 91自拍论坛 Weekly featured a cover on Ireland. From around the country, sellers report that it was one of the best received in some time. When you look at the mass media reporting of Irish politics, the reasons why this issue of was so
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A new opinion poll, released in early November, predicts that the National Party (NP) will be thrashed in the April 27 general elections. The poll, by Integrated Marketing Research, was specially weighted to include squatters,
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Then and nowIt was Lyndon B. Johnson who said, "Until justice is blind to colour, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the colour of men's [or women's] skins, emancipation will be
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MELBOURNE 鈥 The Australia Cuba Friendship Society organised a well-attended barbecue on November 21 to mark the completion of its latest project, which raised $4000 to pay for an electric power generator for a medical clinic in Cuba. The 80 people
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On October 27 the Victorian government gave the go-ahead for large-scale woodchipping in the old growth forests of East Gippsland. The ACTU supported the move as "a welcome and logical" response to the industry's needs. But
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Based on highly reliably international contacts, leaked documents and horoscopes from several TV magazines, Nostradamus' Media Watch presents a highly accurate forecast of political events across the globe. Japanese
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The following letter by Udo Schueklenk was submitted to Brother Sister in Melbourne. Clinical researchers at the US National Institute of Health (NIH) recently conducted a trial to test a drug, FIAU, supposed to combat hepatitis B virus. Four
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When the Berlin Wall came tumbling down in 1989, it marked the end of a Cold War which began with the Bolshevik revolution in 1917. The age of certainty had passed. The Soviet threat was gone and with it much of the
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"What kind of a person would become a torturer? What kind of a person would become a member of the death squads?", journalist Superna Aggarwal asked former Treasury Police officer Rene Hurtado. "Anyone", he replied, "You can
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Radio Skid Row-Koori Radio 2RSR-FM radiothon 鈥 Continuing until December 4, Sydney's inner city public radio station 2RSR-FM is holding its annual radiothon. Radiothon week will feature extra special programming, give-aways and prizes for new
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Unexpected "A very disappointing result and most unexpected. We will go on, because we are fighting a battle for the civil liberties in this country." 鈥 Entrepreneur John Elliott on the Federal Court's refusal to stop the National Crime Authority
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ACT nurses stop workCanberra 鈥 Nurses at Canberra's main hospital at Woden Valley are taking industrial action to stop changes to rostering. Management is trying to pressure nurses into reducing their hours of
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Surprise decision to split preferencesADELAIDE 鈥 In an unexpected shift, the Green Party (SA) has joined the Australian Democrats in splitting its ticket for the December 11 South Australian elections. That is,
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NSW South Coast unionists in courtWOLLONGONG 鈥 The trial of two south coast unionists is to continue, despite the disappearance of one of the prosecution's key witnesses. South Coast Labour Council (SCLC) secretary
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Youth speak outADELAIDE 鈥 The radical youth organisation Resistance held a successful youth speak-out in Rundle Mall here on Saturday, November 27. Armed with placards and leaflets displaying slogans like: "Resistance
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CANBERRA 鈥 Public Sector Union members in the ACT have delivered a stunning rebuff to the incumbent leadership in the current branch executive elections. The PSU Challenge team campaigned on a wide range of issues including
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Vic Trades Hall doges campaign on holidaysMELBOURNE 鈥 A Victorian Trades Hall Council shop stewards/job delegates meeting on November 24 voted to endorse action against the Kennett government's latest attacks on Workcover
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Greenpeace and the Ningaloo Preservation Association on Exmouth on November 26 staged a protest against an oil company which is about to start exploration drilling next to a marine park of world significance off the WA coast. Two Greenpeace
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Queensland rail lines reprievedBRISBANE 鈥 The Goss government has agreed to retain 17 rail lines threatened with closure several months ago (some conditionally), to lease one as a private siding, to mothball five and close
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Green Alliance launches campaignADELAIDE 鈥 "We need an alternative to 聧 Liberal and Labor, an alternative that is inclusive and 聧 based on grassroots democracy, one that puts 聧 environmental and social justice
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BRISBANE 鈥 Environmental activists protested in the early hours of the morning at the Hamilton wharves on November 22. The aim of the protest was to raise awareness about destructive logging operations in Malaysia.
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Brisbane garbos vote to end strikeBRISBANE 鈥 A dawn meeting of 300 garbage collectors in King George Square voted on November 26 to end their two-day strike and accept the city council's improved redundancy offer. The
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Hindmarsh picket continues ADELAIDE 鈥 Support for the Friends of Goolwa and Kumarangk 鈥 opposing the proposed Hindmarsh Island bridge and associated developments 鈥 is growing. Unions supporting this broad coalition now include all
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Residents organise against council changesMELBOURNE 鈥 North Carlton residents are organising against their expulsion from the City of Melbourne, of which they have been part for more than 100 years. Following two
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Campbell continues in ALPPERTH 鈥 The MHR for Kalgoorlie, Graeme Campbell, has always been a loose cannon for Labor. Campbell has always outspokenly supported the interests of the mining companies. So with the
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Victory for gay rightsADELAIDE 鈥 David Paul Jobling was granted a $60,000 compensation payment on November 22. The Equal Opportunity Tribunal declared that Jobling was prevented from taking up an artist-teaching
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ADELAIDE 鈥 The Arnold ALP government launched its bid for the women's vote in the December 11 state election, a policy titled "Women-Moving Forward", on November 22. Some of the highlights are pledges to: create
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ATSIC councillors face electionThe second ATSIC (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission) Regional Council elections will be held around Australia on Saturday, December 4. The election comes at a time when
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Too much power Canadian publisher Conrad Black's need to feed his enormous ego by revealing personal and political exploits (exploitations) in his self-important autobiography has lifted the lid once more on the shady dealings between leading
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Controversial daily launched in PNGA controversial new daily newspaper, published by an associate company of the Malaysian logging corporation which dominates Papua New Guinea's timber industry, appeared on November 11 鈥
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When the United Nations leaves Cambodia, it will dismantle the only national organisation clearing landmines. Training of Cambodians to clear mines has stopped and vital equipment has been removed, leaving people isolated in
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In a small Baghdad grocery store, a child of perhaps five came in, clearly proud to be doing an important errand. He was clutching a five dinar note 鈥 approximately 9 British pence at the official rate of exchange.
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Police on November 19 shot dead Raimal Punya Vasave, a 15-year-old tribal youth, during a protest against the giant Sardar Sarovar Dam on the Narmada River in Maharashtra state. Three other tribal people were seriously injured. The villagers
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VIVIENNE PORZSOLT spoke recently to HA'IFA BARAMKI, director of continuing education at Bir Zeit University. Mrs Baramki was born in Gaza and stayed there until she went to study at the Beirut College for Women. She returned to Gaza and taught
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By Anne O'Callaghan Professor Manuel Amador is vice-director of the Cuban Institute of Nutrition and Food Hygiene. He was in Australia recently to attend the 15th International Conference of Nutrition, held in Adelaide from September 26 to
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HANOI 鈥 Economic reforms that began in the 1980s are changing the way Vietnam's unions organise. The vast bulk of the 30 million-strong labour force works in agriculture. Prior to 1986, the industrial work force was
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MOSCOW 鈥 Liberal journalists and moderate political leaders have bitterly condemned the draft constitution released by President Boris Yeltsin on November 10. Major criticisms of the document include charges that it violates
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A last-minute concession by South African President F.W. de Klerk has allowed the multiparty negotiating forum finally to agree on an interim constitution under which South Africa will be governed until 1999. The agreement clears
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A resurgent religious right in the United States is again contesting old hard-won rights. Youth are a particular target of homophobes. The insinuation of religious bigots onto school boards has led to censorship of textbooks and library books and the
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On November 25 the Suharto regime finally gave in to demands of demonstrators who had been protesting for several weeks against a decision to extend the life of a state lottery system notorious for its
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Blackout ABC Television Tuesdays, 9.30 p.m. Reviewed by Sean Malloy This is the second series of Blackout, and I'm elated to say that this new series looks as good as, if not better than, the first. Blackout examines Aboriginal and
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The Wedding Banquet Directed by Ang Lee Brighton Bay, Kino cinemas, Melbourne Reviewed by Wendy Robertson The Wedding Banquet deals with a mixture of issues, including the everyday pressures of family and tradition that are faced by gay
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Lucky Dube still dazzlesSYDNEY 鈥 Dreadlocks streaming through the air, teasing the expectant audience with his wicked grin and rhythmic moves, Lucky Dube delivered every bit of what was promised by the promoters of
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Some of Robyn Archer's best Ancient Wonders By Robyn Archer Larrikin Records Reviewed by Melanie Sjoberg It is a reflection of the high level of seriousness that Robyn Archer pays to political issues and her home town, that she sent
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The Naked and the Dead By Norman MailerWith an Introduction by John PilgerFlamingo 1993. 717 pp., $19.95 (pb) Reviewed by Phil Shannon In 1948, Norman Mailer published one of the best novels to come out of World War II. This 1993 reissue of
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Nuff Vibes Apache Indian CD on Island Records through Polygram Movin' On Apache Indian CD single on Island Records at import shops Reviewed by Sean Malloy Sounds of a Jamaican dance hall combined with percussion arranged by Sheila
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Music as chronicle True Believers By John Schumann Columbia Reviewed by John Williams When Phil Ochs released his 1964 album All the News Fit to Sing, he continued a folk tradition of being the chronicler of popular concerns and
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C.D.s and Other Things By Peter Lyssiotis and Gyorgy Scrinis Masterthief Enterprises, 1993. 52 pp., $7.50 Reviewed by Anthony O'Donnell "Only connect." This injunction of E.M. Forster's (I think) is as good a fulcrum as any from which to
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The tourists are slowing down now, and the clouds are building up. The weather is hot and muggy; everybody goes around with their clothes stuck to their bodies with sweat. The gathering clouds and
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Summerhaze Cathie O'Sullivan Jarra Hill through Larrikin Entertainment Reviewed by Norm Dixon Potential buyers of Cathie O'Sullivan's fascinating album should ignore the dreadful packaging. Through some strange lapse of judgment, Larrikin