By Mark O'Connor
The comment by Peter Boyle in the November 11 Green Left contained some serious misinformation about Paul Ehrlich's important I=PAT equation.
This equation indicates that for a given country or region — with the
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Ageing, single-hulled oil tankers such as the Braer, banned from US ports since 1989, are still plying some of Australia's most environmentally sensitive waters. Under regulations adopted after the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster,
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Not as rare as he should be Women's groups and many other Australians have been less than happy with Justice Derek Bollen's comments during a rape-in-marriage trial in the South Australian Supreme Court this week. I can understand why.
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Court cancels the right to picketPERTH — In a case with far-reaching implications, the Builders Labourers' Federation in Western Australia has been found to have breached Section 45D of the Trade Practices Act, which
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Under the guise of a "humanitarian mission" to ensure that food reaches starving people, a US-led force of almost 35,000 heavily armed combat troops have firmly entrenched themselves in Somalia.
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PHNOM PENH —Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has made a dramatic appeal to the United Nations to take action "to safeguard the Cambodian people from the second Khmer Rouge genocide and to rescue the Paris agreements".
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The real price of oil Poisoning the earth By Catherine Brown Thirty-five kilometres separate Fair Isle from Sumburgh Head, Shetland, a channel used by approximately 1000 tankers a year. A plan, approved by the United Nations
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Temperate forest conference Your feature article on the threat to our native forests (GL #82)had a photo of David Bellamy described as a "world renowned botanist". I urge all readers to regard with extreme caution and cynicism Green
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Part of the population-environment debate in recent issues of 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ has focused on Paul Erlich's formula I=PAT. This attempts to relate environmental impact to population, average levels of affluence or consumption
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Future of New Left Party uncertainA national meeting in March may determine whether the New Left Party will continue to exist, according to several prominent members. Rumours have been circulating in progressive
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Indian Pacific looks at Indonesia — The third program of IP's series on Indonesia examines the role of the military, whose representatives are granted 100 seats in parliament. There is currently a debate over dwifungsi — the "dual role" of the
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Reader, I can tell you in all secrecy — but only if you promise not to tell anyone — this week almost saw one of the great historical accidents of modern times. There was Georgie Bashed, pacing up and down in the Oval
News
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SA Liberals threaten to privatise transportADELAIDE — Proposals from the state Liberal Party demonstrate that this city's already debilitated public transport system is going to be further eroded following a change
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Snouts in the troughMELBOURNE — Under Jeff Kennett's new order, austerity is the watchword in the public sector. To underline the point that all are to be hit equally, the premier says that he will do nothing to help
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91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ fund off to a great startSYDNEY — The 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly 1993 fund drive got off to a marvellous start at the Democratic Socialist Party and Resistance Activist-Education conference, when $49,000 was
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Socialist campaign launchedSYDNEY — The Democratic Socialist Electoral League 1993 federal election campaign was launched here on January 3 with a panel of candidates outlining some of the basic issues central to
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Summer of protests in TasmaniaHOBART — The Wilderness Society's "long hot summer" campaign of national forest protests began in Tasmania on January 11. TWS national director Karenne Jurd says 150 volunteers have
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MELBOURNE — Sweeping cuts to Victoria's public transport system are being denounced as socially and environmentally irresponsible. Of 14 suburban rail lines, only four appear to have escaped severe
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Austudy changes increase student debtsStudents receiving the Austudy allowance lost a week's payment at the beginning of this year. Austudy last year was paid one week in advance and one week in arrears. In a cost cutting
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N-waste plan condemned Aboriginal groups, Greenpeace and Democrat Senator John Coulter are among many who have condemned a federal government plan to transfer 2000 cubic metres of radioactive waste from Sydney to the Woomera rocket range in
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Submarine in accidentHOBART — The US nuclear submarine USS Topeka had its departure from Hobart delayed by an accident involving its anchor. According to the State Emergency Service, the delay was to ensure that the
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MELBOURNE — The Victorian government began its public sector cutbacks last year by slashing 9300 jobs, closing 52 schools and four campuses. Education has been worst hit with 3700 cleaners, 2175 teachers, 500 public
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Bleak prospects for TasmaniaHOBART — Unemployment in Tasmania reached 12.6% according to seasonally adjusted figures released on January 14. This is the highest figure recorded in Australia since monthly surveys
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About 30 boats of the Sydney Peace Squadron took to Sydney Harbour at 7 a.m. on January 9, to protest against the arrival of the giant US aircraft carrier Ranger, with its four companion ships. Three
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SYDNEY — The Democratic Socialist Party and Resistance Activist Education conference, held here January 2-6, attracted 275 people from around Australia and overseas. Under the banner "Socialism Now More Than Ever",
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Protest at deportation of Palestinians Story and photo by Miriam Tramer Jewish, Arab and other Australians joined forces in a protest picket against the Israeli deportation of 415 Palestinians into Israeli-occupied southern Lebanon.
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Brewery struggle continues Perth — The struggle to halt redevelopment of the old Swan Brewery site has entered another year and shows no sign of abating, despite the actions of WA government-backed developer Multiplex. The company used
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PERTH — Western Australian voters will have a choice of more than just Labor-Liberal in the state election on February 6. Greens, socialists and independents will be among the candidates. "There needs to be an
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Credibility problems Western Australian coalition industrial relations spokesperson Graham Kierath, denying that his industrial relations reforms would make anybody worse off or lose their jobs, admitted that "Kennett does cause us
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WICKHAM, WA — Robe River unionists have condemned ACTU president Martin Ferguson for mishandling the dispute currently under way at Robe River and have called for his resignation unless he reverses his position and begins
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Toxic dump cover-up revealedBRISBANE — Conservationists and the Queensland Greens have called for a full inquiry into the Gurulmundi toxic waste dump after a government expert revealed tight restrictions had been placed
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'Commonwealth should save rail services' Independent Senator Janet Powell has called on the federal government to save rail services targeted for closure by the Victorian government of Jeff Kennett. Powell says the government should
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"Reworking Australia" is a new campaign focusing on the unemployment crisis with its threat of the disintegration of community cohesion and the poverty and despair of more than a million Australians and their families. The
Analysis
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'Mad Dog' Kennett, Labor and elections After a decade in office the Western Australian Labor government, with absolutely nothing to recommend it, goes to the polls on February 6. It won't campaign on the basis of a dynamic record of
World
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Guatemala: human rights violations MEXICO CITY — A total of 1516 human rights violations — an average of four every day — were committed in Guatemala in 1992, according to the latest annual report by the independent Human Rights
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The Hague — A continuing dispute between a Dutch multinational and British workers has alarmed trade unionists on both sides of the channel. Many of those involved see the case as an indicator of the future weakening of trade
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LONDON — As Prime Minister John Major celebrates two years in number 10 Downing Street, his government is beset by recurring crises. Not the least of these is an economy plunging towards depression, with the government doing
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Polish bill curtails right to abortion WARSAW — The Polish parliament on January 7 approved a modified anti-abortion bill that permits the termination of pregnancies in certain circumstances, but ends the abortion-on-demand policy of the
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DUBLIN — Just before Ireland voted on the three-part abortion referendum on November 25, Anne Speed, a trade union organiser and Sinn Fein candidate in the previous election, talked to 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly about the last 10
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Confined for six years in a tiny cell, Mordechai Vanunu, who exposed Israel's secret nuclear weapons program, is being subjected to systematic ill-treatment which threatens his mental stability, says Gideon Spiro, an Israeli
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MANRICO MORO came to Australia from his native Italy 17 years ago. Before that, he used regularly to visit Yugoslavia. He "remembered Yugoslavia as a nice place for holidays, a bit poorer than Italy, but much cheaper, and much more orderly". When
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Born amid confusion and uncertainty in December 1991, the independent Ukraine has faced a difficult first year of life, and it seems there is more of the same to come, writes POUL FUNDER LARSEN. The Ukraine's December 1991 referendum on
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More than 110 warplanes, from the United States, France and Britain, were involved in the January 14 attack which bombed at least five places in southern Iraq in half an hour. The majority of Australian daily newspapers
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Old structures, new conditions The Ukraine is facing a "protracted crisis of stagnation", with drawn-out struggles both among and within the former republics of the USSR as "the old bureaucracy and the emerging bourgeoisie" wrestle for the
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Jean-Franois is the third generation of Ethiers producing maple syrup from around Mirabel, 50 kilometres north-east of Montreal. The farm was started by his grandfather Henri in 1920. The family sells maple syrup from
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AUCKLAND — When the New Zealand Labour government was turned out of office in 1990, the party was at an all-time low in popularity. Then, within months of being elected in a landslide, the incoming National Party government
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MOSCOW — After the stirring events of mid-December, when the Congress of People's Deputies managed to sack acting Premier Yegor Gaidar despite Boris Yeltsin's desire to keep him in office, few Russians were expecting
Culture
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Colours Colours is an exhilarating presentation of two distinct pieces by the Aboriginal Islander Dance Company. The first is traditional dance with guest artists from the Tiwi people of Bathurst Island and Murray Island in the Torres
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Fairfield prepares for Carnivale SYDNEY — Multicultural Fairfield in western Sydney is preparing for a range of activities during Carnivale, January 22 to February 6. Cabravale Park and Freedom Plaza, Cabramatta, will come alive for the
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See Ya Next Century Chrissie Parrot Dance Company and Robyn Archer Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney, until January 23 Phone 699 3444 or festival Ticketek Reviewed by Anne O'Grady The performance of this "funny bitter cabaret" is
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A classy whodunit Under suspicion (M) Writer-director Simon Moore Starring Laura San Giacomo, Liam Neeson Reviewed by Mario Giorgetti In England during the late 1950s, where vicious criminals were still likely to be sentenced to
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One of modern music's greatest innovators and best-loved characters, John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie, 75, died quietly in his sleep on January 6. Playing his trademark tilted-bell trumpet, he became one of the most influential jazz
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Moulding the minds of Israeli childrenIzkor (Slaves of Memory), shown at the Israeli film festival at the end of last year, is a film about the way the Israeli education system moulds the minds of young people to
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Dracula A Francis Ford Coppola film Reviewed by Ian Bolas The originality of Coppola's Dracula lies in his decision to film the sub-text of Stoker's novel, its real as well as its surface content. The dark eroticism he creates is not
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Indochine Directed by Regis Wargnier Starring Catherine Deneuve, Vincent Perez, Linh Dan Pham, Jean Yanne Reviewed by Steve Painter I'd like to be able to say something nice about Indochine, a film coming up for commercial release off
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A short story by Craig Cormick The first Ern Ahearn heard of the planned flying machine was from his cousin Wal, one sunny Sunday afternoon on the verandah of the Ballarat Empire Club. "What? A flying machine?", he said, between sips of a