Outraged The item on the Swan Brewery (June 17) by Michael Rafferty has left me with a feeling of outrage at the scandalous, pathetic string of misinformation that you allowed under the heading of "news". 1. Aboriginal opinion is divided on
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MELBOURNE — About 140 representatives of government, Industry, the ACTU and Community organisations were invited to a forum titled "Youth Employment and Training — A Bridge to the Future" at Victoria's Parliament House on
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Stephen Rix The retreat from public ownership The sale of a merged Qantas/Australian Airlines marks the latest development in the sorry saga of federal ALP retreat from ALP policy on public ownership. Such retreat is indicative of the ALP's
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Television antennas on roofs all over this country will soon be joined by satellite dishes. Pay television will have arrived. Just like the pubs and clubs which now subscribe to Sky Channel, giving patrons extra audiovisual
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There is a widespread dislike and suspicion amongst AOTC's employees of its perceived "American management". This may partly be due to anti-American sentiment or the desire to find a scapegoat for the constant threat of
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With a youth unemployment rate of 34%, Australia risks sacrificing an entire generation to the insane "rationalism" which decrees that people's lives are less important than the "economy". Paul Keating's youth summit, to be
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Action updates ADELAIDE — A Public Transport Community Coalition public meeting here on June 24 called on the State Transport Authority to extend rather than cut services. The meeting was told 14 bus routes as well as train services were
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Pride This week lesbians and gays celebrate Stonewall, a milestone in the struggle for gay liberation. In Brisbane the occasion is marked by the Pride Festival, a series of political, social and cultural events for lesbians, gays and everyone
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The United States government expects to get the go-ahead soon to use Delamere bombing range in the Northern Territory. US military forces are searching for a new range following their forced abandonment of the giant Clark air
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Both the federal and Victorian governments have suggested that the solution to youth unemployment is contained in the Carmichael Report, a document from the Employment and Skills Formation Council named after it author, former
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By Claire W. Gilbert The oil well fires in Kuwait are out. But there remain an untold number of wells which are still spewing raw crude onto the desert floor into lakes, pools and rivers of oil. There are 200 lakes of oil, from as large as
News
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National incest survivors conferenceSYDNEY — The first Women's National Incest Survivors Confest will be held on July 10-12 at the University of NSW. It is organised by women who consider themselves part of the grassroots
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SYDNEY — A blazing row has erupted between Sydney and Newcastle officials of the bus workers' union (ATMOEA) over a deal struck by Sydney officials with the Department of Transport. The deal was accepted by a majority at a
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SYDNEY — In the tumult surrounding the Metherell corruption scandal and the June 24 forced resignation of NSW premier Nick Greiner, Michael Yabsley, the loudest of several loose cannons crashing about the deck of the NSW
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Tas log hauliers fight APPMHOBART — Three log trucks are parked outside state parliament in a protest by log hauliers in the wake of the Burnie paper mill dispute. Log truck drivers and owners from
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SA employers ask for handoutsADELAIDE — South Australia currently has the highest unemployment rate of any state, with working-class areas such as Noarlunga, Salisbury and Elizabeth hardest hit. In May, SA had 74,585 on
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UNE students call national day of Action LISMORE — Students at the University of New England - Northern Rivers have called a national day of action to protest against attacks on Austudy and the running down of education in general. The
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MELBOURNE — Maria Puric, a middle-aged woman, lost everything she owned, as well as family and friends, in the town that was once Vukovar. Vida and Mato Vulic are both in their 60s; everything they owned was left in the town of
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Telecom workers at mass meetings around the country have voted for an industrial campaign over management plans to cut its work force by 4400, with further cuts expected. Up to 12,000 jobs may be threatened in the medium term.
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Children's exhibition launchedBRISBANE — Residents here have been the first to view a national exhibition of drawings by refugee children from Croatia, Bosnia-Hercegovina and the Nagyatad refugee camp in Hungary. The 250
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ACT women score abortion rights victory CANBERRA — On June 23, the ACT Legislative Assembly voted by 10 to 7 to repeal 1978 legislation banning the establishment of a free-standing abortion clinic in the territory. An estimated 2000 women
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Publication schedule Because many of the people involved in the production and distribution of 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ will be attending the Resistance conference in Melbourne, we are not publishing a paper next week. The next issue will be the one dated July
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Federal Police broke the law by handing over a list of 238 protesters arrested at the November 1991 Aidex armaments exhibition in Canberra, says a report to federal parliament by Human Rights Commission privacy commissioner
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MELBOURNE — As Premier Joan Kirner held her mini-summit on youth unemployment on June 25, a crowd of around 200 people demonstrated on the steps of the state parliament. The rally, organised by an umbrella group called CRICIS
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Rochedale dump 'legal'BRISBANE — "We will never give up trying to stop the dump. We won't give up until we've at least we've got a wider buffer zone", Glenys Head, spokesperson for Rochedale residents fighting a proposed
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NOWSA conference setADELAIDE — One of the year's most important dates for Australian student women is the annual NOWSA (Network of Women Students in Australia) conference. This year's conference will be held here July
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Brewery protests continuePERTH — The WA Labor government is in bed with Multiplex boss John Roberts over the development of the old Swan brewery site, well-known environmentalist and former union leader Jack Mundey told a
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MELBOURNE — A meeting of 400 public sector union delegates on June 23 called for a public campaign to oppose privatisation, corporatisation, the use of contractors and public sector cuts. The delegates called for a series of meetings and
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PERTH — A two-week strike by 2200 Pilbara mineworkers is likely to spread to other workplaces of Hamersley Iron parent company CRA. The strike, against the employment of a non-unionist at the Tom Price mine, has cost the
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Top secret "One doesn't feel that the right place for Miss Percy is in prison, but there is a limit and she is at the end of our tether." — British magistrate L.P. Stephen imposing a six-month suspended sentence on Lindis Percy, a peace
Analysis
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Resource security Little could be more short-sighted, not to say downright criminal, than the NSW government's proposed resource security legislation. The package of five bills would dump the existing state list of around 200 endangered species
World
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Walk into any office in the former German Democratic Republic, and you are likely to find what the locals sarcastically call a "besser Wessi" — distinguishable by dress, accent and size of pay cheque — there to teach the "Ossis" how to do
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Anti-gay law in Nicaragua On June 11, Nicaragua's National Assembly passed Latin America's most repressive sodomy law. The Sandinista bloc opposed the law but was outvoted by the right-wing forces of the pro-US UNO coalition. By 43 votes to
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Attacks by British army thugs on the small nationalist town of Coalisland in County Tyrone have caused political reverberations in London and Dublin. First the British army announced that an officer in the infamous Parachute Regiment had been
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Ross Debrecery is a member of New Zealand's NewLabour Party and a student at Otago University in Dunedin. He will be attending Resistance's 21st national conference in Melbourne July 4-6. Debrecery talked to 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly
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MOSCOW — In the first half of June, peasants in numerous regions of the Russian Federation were threatening strike action against the consequences of the Yeltsin government's "reforms". Meetings of agricultural workers in
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Indonesian report banned The Indonesian government has banned a report by a leading human rights group on the trial of rebels in the northern Sumatran province of Aceh. The report by the Legal Aid Institute (LBH) was banned on June 16
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AUCKLAND — Barely six months ago, maverick Maori politician Winston Peters was by far the government's most popular cabinet minister and was being tipped as a future prime minister. Today he is fighting for his political life.
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EC rejects US anti-Cuban bill The European Community has announced it will not accept the extension of US territorial jurisdiction over its member nations. In a letter issued to the US State Department last April and circulated on June 19 by
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The African National Congress on June 21 suspended negotiations with the white minority government following the massacre of 39 people in Boipatong township. The Boipatong killings appear as part of a pattern of government-sponsored violence,
Culture
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Alien 3 Starring Sigourney Weaver Reviewed by Nick Everett Unless Hollywood can come up with a resurrection of Ripley from a giant cauldron of molten lead, Alien 3 is the final part in a trilogy about a struggle against a totalitarian
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the employment pages em = By Nicole Matthews fleet of paper boats fleet waves sweep sweep up those boats wave, wave wave to the leaving boats weep to the waves wild oat boats ave to wet boats sweeping up wet leaves that wet weekend
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Batman Returns Directed by Tim Burton Starring Michael Keaton, Danny De Vito, Michelle Pfeiffer Reviewed by Wayne Ruscoe Ka-pow! The biggest opening weekend in movie history! Ker-rack! $60 million taken at the box office in three days!
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New courses from Women's Academy SYDNEY — Second semester at the feminist "university" gets under way in July. The Women's Academy is offering a range of courses for the second half of the year, on subjects ranging from recent developments in
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SYDNEY — The Waterside Workers' Federation is about to celebrate its 120th anniversary with "Artists and Rebels on the Waterfront", an exhibition of drawings, oil paintings, etchings, linocuts and watercolours from 1939 to 1992. The display
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Hypocrisy is the Greatest Luxury The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy Reviewed by Nick Fredman Hard beats and hard politics are delivered by this San Francisco hip-hop duo. Michael Franti and Rono Tse originate from the very political Bay Area
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Bombed out Love and Bombshells Presented by Impact TheatreWritten and directed by Bernie Sheehan Showing for a two week season at Pilgrim Theatre, Sydney Reviewed by Kath Tucker Love and Bombshells could have been an important contribution
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London Calling Three short films Released in Australia by Ronin Films At the Valhalla, Sydney, from July 3 Watch for showings in other cities Reviewed by Tracy Sorensen The Body Beautiful, one of three short films on offer in the London
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The following article really appeared in the June 16 issue of the Sun, a "newspaper" sold in supermarkets in the United States. Aside from the humour it unintentionally provides, it is an interesting commentary on the "free" media of the US.