The current takeover bid by Campbell Soups for biscuit manufacturer Arnotts has raised a number of perennial questions about ownership of what are called "Australian" companies. Campbells is being posed as the foreign
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MADRID — Because of changes to the world climate, some 20 million Spaniards who live along 8000 km of Mediterranean coast are in danger, say environmental organisations and government authorities. Minister of public works
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When we first met the executive director of the National SIDS Council, Rob Lamb, in 1990, he was sorting some prototype red noses and checking the latest cartoon car logo. Being a little silly, he said,
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MOSCOW — The fourth annual conference of the Social-Ecological Union took place here from October 5 to 8. The largest green organisation to emerge from the USSR, the union includes groups from all over the Commonwealth of
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The '90s are already a fascinating decade for anybody interested in Australian cities. It seems our cities have been rediscovered, resuscitated, resurrected even, from the so-called "excesses" and "aberrations" of the 1980s.
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MELBOURNE — A speaking tour of Victoria has been organised for Charles Moran, a representative of the NSW Asbestos Ex-miners Aboriginal Corporation, who is himself suffering from asbestosis. The Bundalung people were forced by economic
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Together or not at all The environmental crisis facing the Earth today is a direct result of the transnational capitalist economic system. This system of unplanned production solely for the sake of private profit does not provide for the actual
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A week of a mini-budget which spread the Victorian state burden evenly and fairly among the poor, and of an industrial relations act which puts a bit more equality into the already equal and loving and caring relationship between employer and
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Campaign to repeal 45D and E MELBOURNE — A broad campaign to repeal 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ 45 D and E of the Trade Practices Act (which prevent unions from protecting their members' rights through secondary boycotts) is being built around the independent
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MELBOURNE — If anyone doubts that the Liberal and National parties plan to destroy the collective bargaining power of workers, they have only to look at the Employee Relations Bill introduced into the Victorian Parliament on
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Memorial meetings were held last week in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane and Adelaide for Jim Percy, the national president of the Democratic Socialist Party, who died on October 12. A special supplement including details of these meetings and
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With more than 200,000 members, Germany's Friends of the Earth is one of the largest of any country. Arno Behlau, its international spokesperson, talked with 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly in Bonn about issues facing the German environmental
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Protest against 1080 poisonHOBART — Protesters from Jackey's Marsh in northern Tasmania dumped the stinking carcasses of about 20 poisoned bush animals on the steps of Parliament House here on October 24 to protest
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In the Brisbane Sunday Sun last December, columnist David Bentley lamented the loss of the "real man" in the wake of the women's liberation movement. He suggested men needed to take courses in manhood, and use for a motto a quote from an old
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Roberto Verzola NGOs explore email Some 53 representatives from 36 non-government organisations (NGOs) gathered recently in Manila, to discuss email and other forms of electronic networking. Judging from the conference discussions, email
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The Songs and Stories of Australia: Unity is Strength — The Larrikins sing the songs of the emerging trade union movement and workers in struggle. ABC FM Stereo, Fri Nov 6, 11.30 a.m. Mac Cocker's Vinyl Museum — Bring back memories of the
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Indigenous Peoples Party formedBRISBANE — Queensland has traditionally been the centre of Murri resistance in Australia, said Murri activist Sam Watson, addressing a 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly forum on the recent political
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SA government attacks WorkCoverADELAIDE — The state government has introduced legislation to reduce workers' entitlements to compensation for injury under the WorkCover system. Currently, employers pay a levy of 3.5% of
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Thousands in reclaim the night marches "This is the one night of the year when we are safe to wear what we like, go where we like and say what we like without fear of violence", said Joy McEntee form the Women's Action Group to a crowd of 100
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Morals campaign 'worse than Joh's'BRISBANE — A state government plan to tap telephones and arrest suspects without warrants has been labelled as more draconian than any legislation during the era of Premier Joh
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S activist to speak on Malcolm XMalik Miah has been involved in the black movement in the US for more than 20 years. In January he will be a speaker at the Socialist Activists' Education Conference in Sydney. He will present
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Groom's industrial relations package condemned Dave Wright HOBART — The Liberals' Fightback! package and industrial relations strategy were condemned at a meeting here on October 20. Trades and Labour Council secretary Jim Bacon said some
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The government's Australian International Development Assistance Bureau is training paramilitary police squads in Papua New Guinea for jungle warfare in the highlands and on Bougainville. These police squads have a penchant for
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'We'll show the Liberals how to fight back!'MELBOURNE — A mass meeting of 3000 shop stewards and delegates from all unions affiliated to Trades Hall on October 29 unanimously passed a motion to hold a 24-hour stoppage and
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SYDNEY — The Aboriginal Legal Service has launched a campaign against Sydney's bid to host the Olympics in the year 2000 — despite claims by bid officials that Aboriginal people in NSW support the bid. Activists from
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Human Rights Day ConcertADELAIDE — A Human Rights Day Concert will be held on Saturday, December 12, at the Railway Institute Oval. First held on International Human Rights Day in 1991, the "Make A Noise For Those With No
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Groom's industrial relations package condemned Dave Wright HOBART — The Liberals' Fightback! package and industrial relations strategy were condemned at a meeting here on October 20. Trades and Labour Council secretary Jim Bacon said some
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MELBOURNE — The Kennett Liberal-National government hit the public's pocket and the environment in an October 28 mini-budget. Victorian families will be up to $870 worse off on the average because of increased state taxes and
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Growth "A strategy for growth is what we need, a strategy for growth is what we are going to have." — British Prime Minister John Major, shortly after backing down on the Tory government's proposal to close down 31 of the country's coal mines
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NSW resource package 'a sweetheart deal' The NSW government's proposed natural resources package is a sweetheart deal between the government and large timber corporations which would privatise NSW forests without giving any real job security to
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Endangered species: Back to square one To say the least, the draft Endangered Species Protection legislation adopted by Cabinet on October 27 is very inadequate. It will prove to be better than nothing at all only if it does not prevent
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World Cup message LONDON — The north of England is the heartland not only of the mining industry but also of rugby league. As the October 24 World Cup Final between Australia and Britain approached, rumblings were heard from British players
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YOGYAKARTA — Riot police attacked about 100 people attending a forum on the need for independent youth organisations here on October 27. Participants in the forum wanted to discuss alternatives to the Indonesian National
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Joel Rocamora is a political analyst and activist in the progressive movement in the Philippines. He was recently in Australia to attend the Philippines: 100 years of Struggle; 100 Years of Solidarity Conference organised by the
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Anger over French blood trialFrench haemophiliac groups, relatives of the victims and ACT UP, the anti-AIDS action group, have denounced as inadequate the sentence of three state-employed doctors, who have been convicted
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The Papua New Guinea government has sent 40 troops to Bougainville who have just completed intensive counterinsurgency, jungle warfare and commando training at the Australian Defence Force base in Canungra, near the Gold Coast in
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Mass rally for miners and jobsLONDON — Up to 250,000 people from around Britain marched through central London in appalling weather on Sunday, October 25, to show their anger at continuing job cuts and in particular the
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After narrowly winning the general election on September 13, Thailand's new pro-democracy government is already being destabilised by a series of bomb attacks. The same bombing and assassination tactics used during the
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MOSCOW — "We need a decent living wage!" Aleksei Bogdanov, delegate from the Lianozovo Electromechanical Plant, told the packed stadium. "How are people supposed to live on 3000 roubles a month?" Metalworkers' leader Yuri
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Nicaraguan solidarity conferenceMANAGUA — "We need to have alternatives ready when its failure and mass opposition bring the neo-liberal project down." This was one delegate's comment at an international conference in
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ISTANBUL — How easy is it to hide a war? In its rapidly escalating war against the Kurds, Turkey is careful to keep the matter as hushed as possible, while the Kurds lack the resources to make their cause known
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Sanctions causing deaths in Libya Reuters reported on October 20 that four members of the British parliament who visited Libya said they had learned that at least 200 Libyan civilians had died so far as a result of UN sanctions imposed on April
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US President George Bush on October 23 signed into law the Torricelli Bill, tightening Washington's blockade against Cuba. The law forbids US subsidiaries abroad to trade with the island, sanctions countries trading with Cuba or giving it
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A unique feature of the Israeli kibbutz has been the totally communal child-care arrangements. These were made possible only by the complete social ownership of all property — even, in the early days, to the extent of personal clothing and effects.
The commitment to the ideal of communal work and ownership extended to communal upbringing of the children. It was strongly believed that the bourgeois family was at the root of individualistic impulses and that communal child rearing would inculcate cooperative ones.
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Mitteleuropa Three-part documentary series SBS Television Begins Sunday, November 8, at 7.30 p.m. Part One: From the Balkan Wars to the invasion of Poland Reviewed by Peter Anderson A lot more attention has been focussed on the Central
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Feral Children Shooting Parties em = By Denis Kevans Fortunately, for the jaded international telescope rifle hunter, there are large and increasing numbers of outcast children living a carefree life in the broad expanses of Western Sydney.
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Police Shootings in Victoria, 1987-1989: You deserve to know the truth By the families of Mark Militano, Jedd Houghton and Graeme Jensen and the Flemington/Kensington Community Legal Centre Paperback, 116 pp. $10 Reviewed by Alex Cooper
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Two recent publications by the Australian Government Publishing Service continue the discussion about structural reform within the Australian economy. While Macquarie University researcher Brian Pinkstone raises questions
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Opera on the edge Lacuna Performed by Chamber Made Opera Composed by David Chesworth Libretto and direction by Douglas Horton At the Gasworks Theatre, Melbourne, until November 7 Reviewed by Lin Wolfe This is a difficult production to
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Hot CafeMELBOURNE — Hot Cafe are five talented and inspiring musicians who mix jazz with world music and take listeners on an unforgettable musical roller coaster ride through places like Spain, Russia, Ireland and
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Unfree liberators Liberators is a 90-minute special on the role of black US soldiers in World War II, with a particular focus on the battalions that freed prisoners of the Buchenwald and Dachau concentration camps. Black soldiers of course