After 30 years of scientific detective work, a picture has emerged strongly suggesting that US-style industrialisation is in fundamental conflict with living systems. Many common chemicals used in bulk quantities are now
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The announcement by President Chirac that France will undertake a few quick nuclear weapon tests created a response in Australia that has taken many by surprise. Since the end of the Cold War and the signing of
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The very public attack by the leader of the Democrats, Cheryl Kernot, on the Queensland Greens following the state election last month surprised some. Kernot lashed out at the Green Party, accusing it, among other things, of
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Chirac I @letter = President Jacques Chirac of France said, he will not budge from his decision to resume nuclear testing in Moruroa Atoll. The only other known creature with a reputation to never change its mind and stick to its position
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In good conscience@outdent = "My sense is that a majority of Southern Baptists would approve of capital punishment." — C. Ben Mitchell, Southern Baptist minister. @outdent = The Southern
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Over the last fortnight, green and left activists who do not have access to electronic mail have missed a heated but politically interesting discussion which has taken place on the Pegasus network. The debate,
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Our right to choose @column = The struggle to secure women's right to abortion is ongoing. Access to abortion as a safe medical procedure is a political issue in a system which stigmatises abortion as a criminal act, and
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The tone of the front page article in the Australian of Friday, March 10, was exuberant. It splashed across three-quarters of available space and was supported by colour photos and diagrams. "$4bn pay TV plan world first",
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@9point = Actively Radical TV — Community television's progressive current affairs program tackles the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Friday, 10.30pm. @9point = The Price of Gold — One million
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@9point = Sunday Concert: Miriam Makeba — Makeba was in Australia in June for the first time in more than 10 years. Her concerts throughout the country were standing room only. She returned to her native South Africa in 1991 after 30 years exile.
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@column = Issue #200 of 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly is only weeks away. This will be the greatest celebration of progressive journalism in Australia since issue 100. And you can play a part. @column = Perhaps you've been a reader of the paper for
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Paul Keating has developed three methods of dealing with criticism. First, he argues that all criticism of him comes from stooges of the Liberal Party. This is one of his great achievements: the ability to persuade
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ADELAIDE — Schools look set to enter the world of outsourcing and privatisation if the state Liberal government has its way. The South Australian Institute of Teachers (SAIT) and the Public Service
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In the 1960s and '70s, the Gurindji tribe of the Northern Territory, employed on the Wave Hill cattle station owned by Britain's Lord Vestey, staged a landmark struggle for Aboriginal justice. The campaign, Australia's first successful Aboriginal
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Punch and Judy "I tell you, John, it's getting harder and harder to get up in the morning. I keep asking myself, why bother? You do your best and you are always getting it in the neck." "Rather you than me, Paul. Let's face it —
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Freeway opposed @9point = ADELAIDE — Despite wet and windy conditions, more than 150 protesters gathered on July 30 to show their anger at the Brown Liberal government's decision to construct a freeway from Adelaide's south to the city.
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The final phase of the $64 million Kangaroo '95, "the greatest show in town", as Royal Australian Navy Captain and chief controller of Kangaroo '95 Jim Gault put it, has begun in the north of Australia. The military exercise
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Two important British scientific journals have published editorials calling for more research into environmental chemicals that may be harming the reproductive health and sexual development of men throughout the
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Cuban blind school seeks support"Know about Cuba today", says Pilar Herrera, recently returned from a trip to Cuba. Herrera has written several articles and interviews from her stay in Cuba.
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Opposition over tollway, tree-clearing growsBRISBANE — The state government's controversial South-East Tollway and tree-clearing guidelines remain major problems for the re-elected Goss government.
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La Trobe SRC funding threatenedMELBOURNE — On July 27 La Trobe University vice chancellor, Professor Osborne, attacked students' right to control their own affairs by declaring that the university would not
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Queensland ALP in disarrayBRISBANE — The war of words continues in the ALP in the aftermath of the state election debacle. On August 4, Brisbane Lord Mayor Jim Soorley called on Queensland Labor Party secretary
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Indonesian solidarity campaign launchedCriminal proceedings are to be brought against seven student and worker activists from the independent trade union PPBI (Indonesian Centre for Labour Struggle) and the
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Kurds on hunger strikeMELBOURNE — Thirteen members of the Kurdish community have been on hunger strike here since August 1, to protest against the genocidal policies of the Turkish government in Kurdistan.
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Rally for BosniaADELAIDE — More than 1500 Bosnians and their supporters marched and rallied here on August 5, calling for an end to the arms embargo and the ethnic genocide being carried out in their homeland.
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Health workers continue industrial actionMELBOURNE — In response to a 14% pay claim by Victorian health workers, now in their second week of industrial action, the Kennett government has offered
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Six deaths in custody in six weeksThe deaths of six Aboriginal prisoners in the last six weeks "dramatically and sadly highlights the problem of deaths in custody nationally", says Aboriginal Deaths in
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August 6 marked the 50th anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima by the US during World War Two. On August 5 the first round of Hiroshima Day commemoration protests against the French government's recent decision
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Nicer @lctext = "We want to make nice nuclear weapons, more efficient nuclear weapons." — Jean Lichere, director of the French Atomic Energy Commission. Geography lesson @lctext = "Where is our test site? In the middle of the
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MELBOURNE — An internal struggle in the International Socialist Organisation (ISO) culminated last week in a wholesale purge by the ISO National Committee of its Melbourne branch. The expelled were members of an
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Time is running out @edit = Public opposition to nuclear testing is rapidly gaining strength, here and around the world. The huge rallies to mark Bastille and Hiroshima days, and the trade bans and boycotts of French goods by unions and
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MOSCOW — In the coal-mining centre of Partizansk in the Maritime District of Russia's Far East, most miners go to work with nothing more than bread and sugar in their lunch boxes. From time to time, miners collapse on
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Beijing conducted another nuclear test in Xinjiang on May 15, two days after it had promised more than 170 countries that it would try hard not to do so before an agreement to ban nuclear tests is reached, which is scheduled
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Israeli peace movement material publishedSydney's Australian-Jewish peace group, Shalom-Salaam, has returned to action, as the Israeli government blocks implementation of the peace accords with the PLO.
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More delays on redeploymentMiddle East International's Graham Usher has reported that the Israeli government now supports only "partial redeployment" of its troops in the occupied territories, for
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Stop the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal! The following is an abridged version of a statement circulated by the Committees of Correspondence in the United States. The governor of Pennsylvania [has] signed a death warrant to set the
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A large movement in opposition to the World Bank/International Monetary Fund-imposed structural adjustment program (SAP) is developing across Papua New Guinea. Of particular concern to the people is a plan to undermine the
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Last month Indonesia officially celebrated the 19th anniversary of the "integration" of East Timor as its 27th province. In carefully orchestrated ceremonies across the country, government officials focused on the
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Rubber tappers protest against nuclear tests BRASILIA — Around 300 rubber tappers and workers from the Brazilian rainforest protested on July 25 at the French embassy against the resuming of nuclear tests. The demonstrators
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Consultation by Zapatistas The Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Committee — General Command of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) on June 8 called for a national and international consultation around five questions
Culture
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Understanding the unforgivable Mad Turk Napier Street Theatre, South Melbourne, August 9-September 2 Previewed by Bronwen Beechey At 10am on May 9, 1989, a man entered a kindergarten in Hawthorn, a middle-class
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Beyond Joy Luz Acuna Aguayo in concert Musical arrangements by Carlos Cordova Q. August 12, 7.30pm Petersham Town Hall, Sydney Previewed by Lisa Macdonald If you're a fan of the music and poetry inspired by the
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Voices of Aboriginal Australia: Past, Present, Future Compiled by Irene Moores Butterfly Books, 1995. 492 pp., $19.95 (pb) Reviewed by Sujatha Fernandes From the use of Aboriginal runner Cathy Freeman to advertise breakfast
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The Royal Commission into the conflict over the Hindmarsh Island Bridge is currently under way in South Australia. Although an enormous amount of attention has been devoted to the beliefs of the Ngarrindjeri women, there has been no corresponding
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Sophie's World: An Adventure in Philosophy By Jostein Gaarder Phoenix House, 1995. Distributed by Allen & Unwin 394 pp., $19.95 (pb) Reviewed by Arun Pradhan Who are you? Where does the world come from? From questions
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When you see Hecate play live, it's easy to understand why they are one of the hottest of Melbourne's growing number of young female bands playing fast, loud rock. Powered along by Stephanie's furious drumming, bass-player
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Cat's eye view of love Seven Acts of Love (As Witnessed by a Cat) Opening at Budinski's Theatre of Exile, Melbourne, August 9 Previewed by Bronwen Beechey "I like to think that good theatre should operate as a kind of
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Arguments for a New Left: Answering the Free Market Right By Hilary Wainwright Blackwell, 1994 Reviewed by Neville Spencer Champions of the free market are on a wave of almost unprecedented self-confidence. Hilary Wainwright
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Higher than Heaven: Japan, war and everything By Tony Barrell and Rick Tanaka Private Guy International: 1995. 304 pp., $35 Reviewed by Heidi Pegrem "This book is called Higher than Heaven because that's where a lot of
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Brisbane International Film FestivalThe Fourth Brisbane Film Festival, screening at Hoyt's Regent with a festival of short films at the State Library, runs until August 14. This month is the centenary