ANDREW GARTON explores the dilemma of non-government organisations attempting to aid the Third World when the people who provide the funds seek to control how they are spent.
NGOs and their projects are, more often than not, totally reliant
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Diamonds Aren't Forever — Sandy McCutcheon reports on the threatened forced removal of 700 people from diamond diggings in South Africa's western Transvaal — land they have lived on since 1926. ABC Radio National, Fri April 9, 12.10 p.m.
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Cheryl Kernot The election we had to have is now over. The defeat of the narrow and reactionary Hewson package was imperative to those who reject economic rationalism's philosophy and policies. Now Tweedledum (Coalition) and Tweedledee (ALP)
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SYDNEY — Jaapalpa is one of only two bail houses for young Aborigines in the whole country. Jaapalpa (the name means gathering place) is a house where young Kooris on remand, who have a high risk of offending again or who
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Vote for Labor Sean Healey (Write on, GLW March 24) ignores two reasons for calling for a vote for Labour. (1) It is much easier to expose the pro-capitalist nature of the Labour party if they are in Government. When Labour are in
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Of the national work force, only 39.6% are union members, down from over 50% before the Accords. ACTU secretary Bill Kelty announced before the last election, "Ultimately, it won't be a conservative government that destroys
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Chances are your GP sees on average two drug company representatives a week, meeting each on average three times a year and spending 11 minutes with each. He or she will spend about 80 minutes each week reading medical
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Keeping the pressure onADELAIDE — The full court seems in no hurry to rule on the conduct of Justice Derek Bollen in the now notorious rape in marriage trial. The hearing was on March 15, and there has still not
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Shaping reality Its was hard to work up much solidarity with Meryl Streep when she railed against sex discrimination in Hollywood a couple of years ago. What do the majority of us have in common with a woman campaigning for the right to be
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ADELAIDE — Indigenous artists and art professionals from Australia and the Pacific nations, North America and Europe will converge here from April 12 to 17 for an international symposium hosted by the South Australian Museum and Tandanya
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ADELAIDE — The large radomes looming out of the desert in the far north of South Australia identify Nurrungar from a distance. They also symbolise the ongoing struggle against US bases and nuclear weapons. Over April
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Occupied school to resist closureMELBOURNE — The parents, students and community activists who are occupying and operating Richmond Secondary College (one of 52 schools official closed by the Kennett government last
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In her first interview after the elections, environment minister Ros Kelly signalled that the Keating government would take a tough stance towards environmental groups. She told the March 31 Melbourne Age that the government's
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Adelaide EYA meetsADELAIDE — Forty young people attended the Environmental Youth Alliance state meeting on Saturday, March 27. They discussed campaigns to take up in the next few months and the approaching EYA
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ALP challenges SPSF left leadershipMELBOURNE — The State Public Service Federation (Victoria) elections in May-June promise to be a showdown between the current left leadership and several ALP-aligned tickets.
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NEWCASTLE — Workers took strike action at nearly all of the Broken Hill Proprietary Company's steel manufacturing or processing centres last week. The unions' log of claims was endorsed by the membership in December. The
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Goss to end royal trappings in QldBRISBANE — Queensland Premier Wayne Goss has entered the republican debate with plans to remove the oath of allegiance to the queen in state jurisdictions, and to remove references to the
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ADELAIDE — A study of the effects of abortion on women in Australia indicates that the real trauma associated with the experience is suffered in trying to obtain information and access to abortion services, rather than as
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MELBOURNE — On the eve of the Kennett government's second mini-budget, due on April 6, the Victorian Council of Social Service has called on the government to target the rich rather than the public sector and capital works.
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Suggestions wanted "It was a time when I thought, I've done everything, the $10 million deal, the $100 million deal and the billion-dollar deal, and you ask, where do you go from there?" — Corporate raider Sir Ron Brierley, describing a
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ADELAIDE — Ironically, the auditor general's report on the downfall of the State Bank was released on April Fool's Day. It offered little to the people of South Australia, who have been waiting for over two years for some
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SYDNEY — More than 100 young people have already registered for the Environmental Youth Alliance national conference, and new registrations are coming in every day. This conference will be held on Friday and Saturday,
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Rainforest timber unwelcome SYDNEY — Sydney Rainforest Action Group, Greenpeace and Paddlers for Peace held the year's first rainforest timber ship protest on April 1. The Eastern Ruby, carrying tropical timber from Malaysia, was met
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MELBOURNE — About 150 people attended a memorial on March 26 at the Melbourne Town Hall for women who have died in custody or shortly after being released from custody. Women in Fairlea and Barwon prisons also held their
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Manipulating Mabo The New Right has trundled out its old warhorses — Western Mining managing director Hugh Morgan and academic Geoffrey Blainey — once again, signalling the start of yet another reactionary campaign. In speeches to the
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The Israeli government sealed off Gaza and the West Bank on March 28 and 30, respectively. AMOS WOLLIN is an Israeli commentator in Tel Aviv. MIRIAM TRAMER interviewed him for 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ about the situation in the occupied territories. What
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The Eighth National People's Congress (NPC) opened on March 15 in Beijing. The NPC is China's constitutional equivalent to a "parliament". The agenda includes the approval of a new government line-up and the passing
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French military cooperation with Fiji Fiji and France have reached agreement on a military training exchange program, Pacnews News Service has reported. Radio Fiji and Radio New Zealand, monitored by Pacnews, reported that the acting
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MOSCOW — Following the Eighth Congress of People's Deputies, it became clear that the political situation in Russia had changed irreversibly. The growing opposition to Yeltsin on the part of the deputies reflected the
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On a recent visit to the Philippines, MAX LANE spoke to YUL CARINGAS, secretary general of the Katipunan Ng Mga Katutubang Mamamayan ng Pilipinas or KAMP (Federation of the Indigenous Peoples Association of the Philippines). Could you explain
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The recent visit to Australia by Amnesty International US chairperson Rick Halperin has focused attention on the death penalty in the United States. The case of radical journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, on death row in Pennsylvania convicted for the
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Herbert Anaya Sanabria, president of the non-governmental Human Rights Commission of El Salvador (CDHES), was gunned down by "unknown" assassins in the Zacamil neighbourhood in San Salvador on October 26, 1987. The
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JOHANNESBURG — National Union of Metalworkers (NUMSA) members are currently discussing a completely new approach to collective bargaining in the metal, motor and auto manufacturing sectors. The essence of the new approach
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'No democracy in Tonga without a fight' One of Tonga's royal-appointed ministers has warned that it is unrealistic to expect that the South Pacific island kingdom's nobles would hand over power to the people without a fight. Minister
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Bougainville MP feared killed Amnesty International has called on its supporters to petition the Papua New Guinea government over what Amnesty fears has been the illegal killing by PNG security forces of a prominent Bougainvillean.
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South African President F.W. de Klerk admission that South Africa developed six Hiroshima-sized nuclear bombs during the 1970s confirms charges made by the African National Congress and the anti-apartheid movement over the past
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MOSCOW, March 30 — Russians will have the chance on April 25 to vote in a referendum on President Boris Yeltsin's "shock therapy" economic policies. In other questions in the parliament-sponsored poll, voters will be asked
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"I am sad. Whatever the size of the faults we have committed, I really don't think we deserved this", lamented Michel Rocard, the French Socialist Party former prime minister and future presidential candidate. The SP enters
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Economy 'at sea' In a variety of recent articles in the Chinese press, the term xiahai, or "moonlighting" has recurred. It describes the emerging phenomenon of workers — usually skilled workers or intelligentsia — who, often illegally,
Culture
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People and Place Australian Forum for Population Studies, Monash University Subscriptions $25 (Australia), $30 (overseas) Reviewed by Jeremy Smith A new journal publishes research on migration patterns, labour markets, the urban sprawl
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Dream trips from Havana to Brooklyn Dreaming in Cuban By Cristina Garcia Flamingo Publications. 245 pp. $14.95 Reviewed by Kylie Budge Set in Havana and Brooklyn, Dreaming in Cuban is a wonderful story which interweaves the lives of
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Contemporary fantasy Into the West Starring Gabriel Byrne and Ellen Barkin Reviewed By Bernie Brian Take two cute, precocious young boys and a white horse that they have just retrieved from a very wealthy and very crooked boss of a
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MELBOURNE — Jose Pires left East Timor 17 years ago. He was eight years old. With his brothers and sisters he was bundled into a car and rushed to Dili wharf where the last ship was preparing to depart. The port was ablaze.
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The Soundtrack of Malcolm X Various artists Qwest/Reprise through Warner Music Available on cassette and CD RCA: The 1st Note in Black Music Various artists BMG Music Available on CD Reviewed by Norm Dixon "What we wanted to
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The Living End The Living End A film by Greg Araki Starring Mike Dytri and Craig Gilmore Kino Cinema, Melbourne Reviewed by Kylie Budge and Jo Brown The original draft of the The Living End was called Fuck the World. That
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Camping with Julian Terry and Julian Mondays 9.30 p.m. ABC Television Reviewed by Sean Malloy Terry and Julian is comedy with some large points to make about sexuality and stereotyping. Julian Clary stars in the show as a persona of
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She will not lose More Ways Than One By Arramaieda An album of voice and percussion Natural Symphonies Available on cassette and CD Reviewed by Karen Fredericks This recording of 14 songs by Sydney-based a cappella group