BRISBANE — Election fever in Queensland is being given the tepid sponge by the ALP. Although the Goss government is committed to a state election before the end of the year the Labor machine is keen to keep a safe distance from
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Agenda 21, signed at the UNCED Earth Summit in Rio, committed the world's nations to a global blueprint for sustainable development in the 21st century which will cost and estimated $800 billion annually. For the
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US blockade condemned [The following letter by distinguished British academics appeared in the August 9 Guardian Weekly.] We would like to draw your readers' attention to a matter which we believe deserves their concern: namely the embargo
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The Nightly Planet asks the questions — This is perhaps the most intelligent music program on radio. Every night it comprehensively programs non-mainstream popular musics from around the world. Presenter Robyn Johnston is always well informed
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Better off? Are Australian women better off than their United States sisters? They are, argues the prime minister's special adviser on women's affairs, Dr Anne Summers. In a public forum in Sydney last month, she pointed to a few things
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Sexual politics — 1 I do not intend to reply in any detail to Robert Stainsby's letter (Write on, August 19). I do wish, though, to take up two points. Firstly, I consider that his selective choice of quotations from my article is not a
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A week when I was deeply moved, almost to the point of tears — even though I know real men don't shed tears — because suddenly, out of the blue, from an area where you least expect it, there was this beautiful and moving
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ADELAIDE — Northern Ireland civil rights and anti-discrimination activist Oliver Kearney spoke at Flinders University on August 20 as part of a tour organised by the Australian Irish Congress. He said that the National Australia Bank owns the
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Fax-in against Indonesian militarySYDNEY — The Anti-Bases Campaign Coalition is running a fax-in campaign to try to stop the Indonesian military being involved in the air show at Avalon, Victoria, October 21-25. "To include
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"The desperately thin baby hung in the weighing harness, kicking and screaming in protest. Loose folds of skin hung from her skeletal arms and legs ... Bishar weighs less now than when she was born a year ago. The Somalian
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Senator JANET POWELL on the prospects for a political alternative Why is it that almost a quarter of Australians are now regularly saying that they will not vote for the major parties? In the past decade, and especially the past 2-3 years,
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Company charged over Coode fireMELBOURNE — Terminals Pty Ltd has been charged with nine offences under the Environmental Protection Act following investigations into the large chemical fire on Coode Island in the Melbourne
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The aftershock of the June-July employment statistics highlights the lack of vision and ideological purpose in the political scene in Australia today. Social objectives have given way to economic objectives.
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Almost 40 million people are now threatened by hunger in sub-Saharan Africa, according to a United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation report released in June. It estimated that in the Horn of Africa 20 million people need
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ADELAIDE — 500 teachers and their supporters rallied at Parliament House on August 18 to demand more staff in the city's disadvantaged northern and western suburbs. Speakers expressed disgust with the state government's failure to give
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The budget and welfareWith unemployment at a postwar record high, the federal budget offers more bad than good news for welfare recipients, according to Jenny Blakey of Melbourne's Welfare Rights Unit. "It offers a few
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A faint sigh of relief conditioned by continued anxiety about the future best sums up the response of welfare and environmental organisation to the 1992 budget. The temporary retreat from economic rationalism into mild Keynesian
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Multiplex Constructions is set to attempt to begin work on development of the old brewery site in Perth, following a ruling last week in the WA Industrial Relations Commission. Multiplex Constructions is the private
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MELBOURNE — Bill Deller, Victorian Public Service Federation vice-president and convener of the Independent Action campaign, warned on August 19 that a future Kennett Liberal-National government of Victoria might face a general
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Last week's budget continued and intensified the Labor government's "reforms" to education. As foreshadowed by numerous leaks, chief among the new measures is the introduction of an Austudy loans scheme. Students will now
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A postcard to KeatingHOBART — Just hours before the federal budget was released, Resistance here was protesting against it. In the Elizabeth Mall, Resistance members invited the public to write their messages on a giant
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Greenpeace protests toxic waste exportPERTH — Together with its South African and European affiliates, Greenpeace in Australia has condemned the recent export of toxic waste from Perth. The Maria Laura, a
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Hamburger heaven "I don't think that snobbery is part of the Christian ethic and if you mean that McDonald's caters for ordinary people, I suspect those people are amongst those who our ministry and cathedral must try to reach." — Christopher
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Public servants voteSYDNEY — In early voting in a Public Sector Union ballot, it appears a nationwide revolt is developing against a motion submitted to the members by the union's national executive. With the crucial
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Residents oppose new reactorSYDNEY — Environmental and residents' groups have condemned a federal government proposal to build a new nuclear reactor at Lucas Heights in Sydney's rapidly growing southern suburbs. The new
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ADELAIDE — "Our natural environment being destroyed, and our human environment is continually being degraded", says Trish Corcoran, from Environmental Youth Alliance. "While polluted air, polluted waterways and disappearing
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On August 18, the Keating government brought in a federal budget designed to convince the public that the Australian Labor Party has returned to its old Social Democratic values. But while the budget purports to give first
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Greens launch announcedWOLLONGONG — A national green organisation will be launched on August 30 with the release of an Australian Greens charter, to include items on ecology, democracy, social justice, ecologically
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Baghdad and Washington The threat of a renewed US military attack on Iraq had appeared to recede when UN observers, departing from the script expected in Washington, declared their inspection mission in Iraq satisfactorily completed. UN
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On August 10 Sir Patrick Mayhem, Britain's secretary of state for the north of Ireland, announced the banning of the Ulster Defence Association, the largest loyalist paramilitary organisation. Within 24 hours, the UDA offices
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AUCKLAND — A Maori tribe which has already laid claim to 80% of New Zealand's South Island has rocked the nation by winning a landmark ruling of the Waitangi Tribunal that the tribe be granted the lion's share of the national
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Vietnam, Laos build ties to ASEANVietnam and Laos are likely to become members of ASEAN in the near future, after being given observer status at the organisation's ministerial meeting in Manila July 21-22. For Vietnam
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"It has not taken long for Palestinians to realise that the difference between Rabin and Shamir is not as great as previously advertised", writes Daoud Kuttab in Middle East International on the Labour coalition government formed
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"The biggest state sell-off" in the European Community is the description, by EC financiers, of the Italian government's privatisation plans. The emergency economic package announced last month includes austerity measures
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LONDON — " At this stage in the economic cycle, there is bound to be a mixture of good and bad news, and unemployment is likely to be one of the last economic indicators to turn around", said Tory employment secretary Gillian
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MANCHESTER — Only 100 days after it was founded, Scotland United has a membership of over 7000. The organisation is demanding a referendum on Scotland's status for St Andrew's Day, November 30. Following the April 9 Tory
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SAN FRANCISCO — In the wake of their successful first national gathering last month, activists in the Committees of Correspondence are feeling their way into a discussion about where the organisation should head. This new
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Mexico's poverty gap widensMEXICO CITY — Mexico's much touted economic miracle is further and further out of reach for most Mexicans, according to a feature story published in the Mexican daily El Financiero. While
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MOSCOW — Russia has signed a memorandum with the International Monetary Fund agreeing on stiff austerity measures, Russian officials and Western diplomats said on August 10. The secret memo involves a 10-point list of preconditions that had
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FEDERICO GOMEZ is a representative of the Chuc people, one of the 22 indigenous cultures in Guatemala. He has been visiting Australia for the secretariat of the campaign 500 Years of Black, Indigenous and Popular Struggle. He was interviewed for
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LONDON — Reports by environmental groups describe a continuing decline in the quality of life of Britons caused by environmental degradation. Yet the Conservative government continues to treat environmental questions with
Culture
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St Oscar By Terry Eagleton Directed by Eric Venberg At the Organ Factory, Melbourne, until September 5 Reviewed by Mark Urban and Bronwen Beechey New Theatre's latest production St Oscar, by well-known British Marxist Terry Eagleton, is a
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Coming home to what? Homecoming: Images of Vietnam Collected by Jean R. Williams Homecoming Publications, 186 Coes Creek Rd, Nambour, 4560 $11.95 Reviewed by Denis Kevans This is a book of poems on and by the generation of Australian
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MELBOURNE — A mix of established and unknown writers, poets and songwriters will be featured at the Writers Festival, held from August 29 to September 19 in conjunction with the Melbourne Fringe Arts Festival. Ken
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BRISBANE — The days when Fortitude Valley was the major local night spot have passed. It's slim pickings down Brunswick Street, the main thoroughfare, in these times of recession after the Fitzgerald Inquiry. Nightclub sparkle,
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John Olsen: Journey through "you beaut" country Directed by Don Bennetts Distributed by the Australian Film Institute Reviewed by Yvonne Sorensen John Olsen's paintings are rather frenetic, full of convoluted lines and plenty of energy. The
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Rap it in metal Body Count By Body Count Warner Bros Records Available on CD and cassette Reviewed by Alex Young This is an interesting album combining heavy, grinding guitar-oriented music with all the attitude and lyrical content of the