Pasminco EZ stops dumping
HOBART — Pasminco EZ dumped its last load of production waste, jarosite, off the continental shelf south of Hobart on October 29. For the last 23 years, the zinc smelting company, which operates on the banks of the
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The results of a national survey on the effects of federal government funding cuts to community-owned child-care centres are not surprising: good quality care is rapidly becoming out of financial reach for many parents, including
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WorkCover rallies: Kennett can be defeatedMELBOURNE — After the 60,000-strong protest on October 29 against the state government's proposed cuts to Workcover, Victorian unions called another statewide stoppage on November 12.
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In the name of humanity[This is the text of a letter sent to the judge who will hear the appeal of 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly columnist Brandon Astor Jones against his sentence to execution.] In June 1995 my brother, William George
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AYPAC and young people's rightsCANBERRA — The Australian Youth Policy and Action Coalition (AYPAC) held its national representative board meeting here over three days at the end of October. The board brings together
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The Landlord of Oz Synopsis, being a summary of what has gone before for the benefit of those who have just joined us: At a time, not too far away, the WICKED WIK OF THE NORTH cast an evil spell over the Wonderful Land of Oz. Fearing that
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Reclaim the Streets SYDNEY — Around 1000 protesters blocked off Enmore Road at the Reclaim the Streets rally and street party in Newtown on November 1. The protest drew attention to the lack of public space for pedestrians and the inadequacy
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In response to media questions on the morality of the government's promised US$1 billion loan to the Suharto regime, PM John Howard claims the money is for the Indonesian people — not the Suharto family. The loan has become
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Kyoto conference Like Australia's recalcitrant failure to address the greenhouse gas emissions problem, financial support for the environmentally destructive Indonesian Government is one more example of the antipathy of the Federal Government
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The National Union of Students is the peak umbrella organisation of student unions in Australia. Whilst it has generally been subject to a conservative and careerist Labor leadership, it has also been the scene of struggles between Labor and more
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Jack Stannard On November 1 we lost a great friend in Jack Stannard. I remember the time Jack sat at the table and announced, "If we are going to have a Canberra Program for Peace, we'd better have a program". Jack was like that. Well into his
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Radiation studies find new dangers of diseaseSince the advent of nuclear technology, people have been concerned about the effects of radiation on humans. The dangers of high levels of radiation were horrifically shown after the
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New enrolments by full fee-paying overseas students are set to drop following the crisis in the economies of south-east Asia. So concerned are universities about the currency crisis that IDP Education Australia, which serves as the
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Some people consider vegetarianism an inconsequential fad. However, it is one of the most simple and powerful things a person can do to promote personal health, a reduction in environmental destruction and the
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Reaching out By Brandon Astor Jones "There is a basic principle that distinguishes a hot medium like radio from a cool one like the telephone, or a hot medium like the movie from a cool one like TV ... Hot media are ... low in participation,
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Bob Brown says more action needed on greenhouseJohn Howard has been strengthened in his push for non-binding targets for greenhouse gas emissions at the Kyoto summit in December, by the recent Commonwealth Heads of Government
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Who benefits from Australian foreign aid? The report of the committee to review Australia's overseas aid program was presented to foreign minister Alexander Downer in May by former Woolworth's executive Paul Simons, the chair of the committee.
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Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Thursday, 10pm and Saturday, 7pm. Access News — Melbourne community
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Youth protest discrimination by MyerBRISBANE — On October 31, 250 people protested against Myer Centre security staff's ejection of Aborigines, homeless people, punks and people without shoes from the centre. After hearing
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Doing it ourselves John Howard's most recent ludicrous comments on his plan to further dispossess Australia's indigenous people are a stark reminder (as if we needed it) that the Coalition government is completely out of touch with the reality of
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Meeting debates protection of NSW national parksSYDNEY — The Carr Labor government is taking NSW national parks down the commercialisation road via its recently drafted "Access Strategy Plan". Up to 300 people attended a
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Not in Kakadu, not anywhere!KAKADU — The November 5 "open day" at the Ranger uranium mine was met with an emotional, non-violent protest against the approval by the federal government of a new uranium mine at nearby Jabiluka.
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While the discussion paper of the government's review of higher education will now not be released until this week, it seems set to recommend higher student fees and a voucher system of university funding. Under the current system,
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Rally against Olympic rent increasesSYDNEY — Rentwatchers, a coalition of community groups (including Redfern Legal Centre, Tenants Union of NSW, Tenants Advice Services and Shelter NSW) has called a demonstration outside
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A coalition of more than 20 environment groups has written to federal and state environment ministers to oppose a move by the federal government to water down national air quality standards. The groups, including the Australian Conservation
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Appropriate technology in Guatemala BRISBANE — West End's House of Freedom was packed to hear Patricia Morrow present a talk and slide show on two projects in the highlands of Guatemala as part of the Australian Volunteer Abroad Program organised
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Refugee right of appeal threatenedThe Howard government is preparing to restrict refugees' right of appeal with a bill to be put to parliament later this month. The migration bill will include a "privative clause", designed to make
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ADELAIDE — A painting by artist Pro Hart — donated to Campaign Against Racism — raised $450 when it was auctioned on November 3. The painting was donated after its owner heard that Hart had donated a painting to One Nation. CAR
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Tasmanian forest deal signedHOBART — A Tasmanian Wilderness Society protest in Perth, 15 minutes' drive from Launceston, on November 8 failed to prevent John Howard and the Tasmanian politicians there for the day from signing a
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SYDNEY — 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly sellers have been visible most lunchtimes and afternoons in Town Hall tunnel (between the Queen Victoria Building and Town Hall station) for as many years as 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ has been publishing. However,
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Perth women reclaim the nightPERTH — Approximately 2000 women gathered at Claremont Park on Bayview Terrace on the evening of October 31 for the annual Reclaim the Night rally and march. This was a significant turnout in
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PENRITH — In the largest rally ever here, some 4000 people marched down High Street to a rally at Penrith Stadium on a "Walk for Reconciliation" on November 1. Supported and organised by local church and community groups, the rally
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Surrounded by sharks "I think we were on a vary big wave and all of a sudden we've been beached. And I think the Labor Party is the only party in this country that can get us back on the wave." — University of NSW Professor Paul Keating. Human
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SYDNEY — Around 600 people marched here on November 8 to commemorate the November 12, 1991 Dili Massacre in East Timor. After a mass held at St Marys cathedral in the city, hundreds of East Timorese left the church, each
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Convicted for possessing a book Queensland's most dangerous book, The Book of Bud, has claimed its second victim. Steve Dimitriou, perennial Australian Marijuana Party candidate (he first stood as the AMP Senate candidate in South Australia in
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Greenhouse rally planned in Adelaide Greenhouse rally planned in Adelaide ADELAIDE — A rally, march and bike ride are planned for the November 30 greenhouse national day of action. The bike ride is planned for 10:30 am, starting and finishing
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HUNTER VALLEY — The Industrial Relations Commission decided on November 7 to terminate the enterprise bargaining period at the strike-bound Hunter Valley No. 1 mine and begin compulsory arbitration. Miners' union leader Mick
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Editorial: 'Tough on drugs' hypocrisy At a record low in the opinion polls, confronted with mounting criticism of his positions on greenhouse and Wik, and still smarting from Cheryl Kernot's defection to the ALP, PM John Howard on November 2
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MOSCOW — For several months from mid-1997, the message in the mainstream Russian press was unanimous: the bad times were ending. The collapse that had almost halved the size of the country's economy since 1990 had bottomed out.
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Problems with herbicide-tolerant cotton in US According to a report by the Center for Ethics and Toxics, farmers throughout the mid-south region of the US began experiencing problems with Roundup Ready cotton in August 1997 as cotton bolls began
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Ontario teachers strike for jobsMore than 126,000 teachers in Ontario, Canada have launched an indefinite strike. The teachers, from both public and private schools, walked out of school on October 27. Negotiations
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Defining terrorism in Sri LankaThe bomb blast that shook Colombo's financial centre on October 15 killed 13 people and injured scores of others. The Sri Lankan government promptly blamed the Tamil Tiger rebels (LTTE).
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Israeli house demolitions punish innocent PalestiniansRAMALLAH — The Israeli military has ordered the demolition of the homes of four alleged suicide bombers in the West Bank village of Asira. The order is based on the Emergency
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On October 29, Iraq's Revolutionary Command Council announced that US citizens and aircraft working for the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) on Iraq would be banned. However, the Iraqi leadership's hope of forcing a
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Asia's export growth plunged across the board last year, hitting also the so-called "tiger" economies. Advocates of the "Asian miracle" theory claimed the causes were short term, and played down any structural problems. Then, early in
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Can East Timor win freedom?On October 11, 1996, Jose Ramos Horta and Bishop Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of their efforts to win freedom for the people of East Timor. The Nobel
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OH JONG-SAE, president of the organisation committee of the Korean Federation of Hyundai Group Workers Union, was interviewed for 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly by JAMES VASSILOPOULOS about the implications for Korean workers of the crash in Asian currencies, and
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ATHENS — Seven thousand workers marched through the streets of Athens during the October 23 general strike called by the General Union of Greek Workers (GSEE). In many areas, 60-70% of the work force participated in the
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Voluntary student unionism push in NZIn an attempt to weaken student opposition to the privatisation of higher education, 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ of the New Zealand government are making a renewed push to legislate for voluntary student
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VARANASI — Waving red flags, chanting slogans and singing revolutionary songs, 50,000 peasants and workers assembled for an inspiring rally to conclude the sixth congress of the Communist Party of India Marxist-Leninist
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The latest in Barbie-mania has hit the Australian airwaves. Now we have not only the Barbie house, the Barbie horse and the Barbie car, but also the Barbie song.
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He Plays Zeus From Olympus I work the phones, where the raw stuff's on tap,a million soap operas bottled and trapped,and think how apart from boosting the ratings ofradio personalities,this is quite the best line for the developing poet,about how
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Left on-line The Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Watch Committee (WA) now has a web page. See . Latest news on the trial of the Herri Batasuna leadership — The Spanish government is prosecuting the entire national executive of the legal
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Reading in the darkBy Seamus DeanVintage, 1996. 233 pp. Review by Suneeta Peres da Costa This is a book of haunting and beautifully rendered childhood revelations. In their subtle evocation of a youth burdened by a terrible family secret, these
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Jabiluka Chorus: I've got the Jabiluka bluesnothing to gainbut every damn thing to lose.I used to worry about uraniumuntil Pan Con bought me off.I'm trying to sell uraniumbut everyone's got enough. I got the Jabiluka blues,while driving my
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The French MathematicianBy Tom PetsinisPenguin, 1997. 422 pp., $17.95 (pb) Review by Phil Shannon "I refuse to be a mathematician in a prison, and Paris will continue to be a prison until King Charles and the Church are overthrown", declares the
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KissedA film by Lynne StopkewichWith Molly Parker and Peter OuterbridgeDendy Cinemas Review by Sean Healy Ooh, yuck, you say, and quite understandably — that was my reaction when I heard what this film was about necrophilia. That's right, it's a
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The power of Oils 20,000 WATT R.S.L.Midnight OilColumbia/Sony Review by John Gauci Nowadays, artists tend to release a greatest hits collection after three or four albums which include a few hits and a couple of misses. Midnight Oil has waited 10
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The Victory — (The Inside Story of the Takeover of Australia)By Pamela WilliamsAllen & Unwin, 1997, 370 pp., $24.95 (pb) Review by Melanie Sjoberg The Victory is a gripping tale of intrigue, dubious financial deals and dynamic interpersonal
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Buena Vista Social ClubFeaturing Compay Segundo, Rubén González, Eliades Ochoa, Ibrahim Ferrer, Omara Portuondo, Ry CooderIntroducing Rubén GonzálezRubén GonzálezA Todo Cuba le GustaAfro-Cuban All StarsWorld
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91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly's JOHN TOGNOLINI interviewed singer-songwriters KEV CARMODY and NEIL MURRAY about their views on the Olympics, the stolen generations, native title, reconciliation and racism. Question: It's only a few years since Sydney won the