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Chasing a bum steer
Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture By Jeremy Rifkin Dutton, 1992. 353 pp., ... $26.25 Reviewed by Dave Riley As rural researcher Geoffrey Lawrence has pointed out, "Farmers do not ... a fundamental contradiction emerging between the desires of individual farmers for profit and the need for clean ...
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like to urge readers of GLW to join me in praying for the departed soul of His Holiness, Pope John Paul ... the detention of refugees. I'm even quoted saying that the feral Baxter protesters like a bit of ... Socialist Alliance Hear hear, Dave Riley (GLW #620), a broad-based Socialist Alliance is ...
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Urban renewal in Brisbane: development for whom?
By Dave Riley BRISBANE — There's land for sale at Forest Lake. On the outskirts of ... Brisbane's south-west, you too can settle in "the living forest" and pick up a piece of the ... all of 1000 hectares to flog off, Delfin Realty is keen for your custom. As well as 10 hectares of ...
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Contemporary foodism
By Dave Riley In a world in which at least one quarter of humanity is malnourished it seems ... innately like sweet foods, the pervasiveness of sugar in our diet is a product of a cynical calculation in ... war, social injustice and economic anarchy all take second place to the weight of advice we receive for ...
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be unfair to judge someone merely on what they thought of William Burroughs, but in Dave Riley ... Child-care Thank you for Pip Hinman's review of Sally Loane's book Who Cares? Guilt, ... hope and the child-care debate (GLW August 27). Pip took up a few issues that as a parent of a young ...
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solution is a social system in which ownership and control of productive resources lies with the community ... like people do in the industrialised countries. That would [not] be ecologically sustainable... in ... a plentiful supply of goods and services to all its people, there will cease to be any necessity for economic ...
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up his act. Dave Riley Brisbane Billy Nessen Your recent reports of journalist Billy Nessen's ... thinking. Fomiatti seems to know little of what is going on in Brazil and even less about the way in which ... servants, have called an open-ended strike to begin July 8. This decision was despite the urging of the CUT ...
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Native title: Labor's real role
ring. Rob Riley, then executive officer of the Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia, told Green ... companies' campaign was that Aboriginal land claims — like the concerns of environmentalists — block economic ... of the High Court. Labor's record on land rights and native title is far from admirable — both ...
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Does meat make the meal?
human digestive system is fundamentally different from that of meat eaters like dingoes. With their much ... By Dave Riley Rural Australia, not renowned for subtle language, generated a bumper sticker a few ... shorter bowel (for rapid expulsion of putrefying meat), stomachs with up to 10 times as much hydrochloric ...
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Write on: Letters to the editor Germaine Greer I couldn't agree more with most of Mary ... of the reality of men becoming violent, which I was to learn later from bitter experience. However, ... I do not entirely agree with all of Mary's conclusions. Some women certainly in the Adelaide ...
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Humans and animals Laura Bahnisch (Write on, #149) accuses Dave Riley ("Becoming Human", ... GLW #147) of speciesism for pointing to the fundamental distinction between human nature and animal ... environment with instinctual or learned responses. Only humans are capable of indirect "mediated" ...
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as a carrying capacity for a nation state, or even for a set area of territory, separate and apart ... limits to population growth. But these have as much to do with the technical capacity of a human ... population as they do with the ecological quality of a set territory. The main ecological problems facing ...
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Vegetarianism Dave Riley's article "Does Meat Make the Meal?" (GL 11/8/93) skimps ... suffering that millions of animals endure is perhaps the most compelling argument there is in favour of ... a meatless diet — and Riley ignores it completely. He gives the impression that the pigs people eat, for ...
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meal a week and to acquaint yourself with the likes of Professor Peter Singer's book titled Animal ... difficult and confusing as Dave Riley's article "Does meat make the meal?" (91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ ... not necessarily a quick process but is better done over a length of time. A good way is to plan on one ...
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Theatre for the oppressed
By Dave Riley Augusto Boal is a major figure in world theatre. Any contemporary discussion about ... taking theatre to the people, of popularising it and renewing its relevance, cannot proceed without ... reference to him. Enthusiastic exponents of his ideas seem to be everywhere, oftentimes working at ...
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Degrading to society
of executions. therefore, I'd like to share with you an extract from an affidavit by David ... much of what we were telling him about the efforts that were under way to persuade Governor Riley to ... The death penalty continues to be a matter of considerable debate in the United States. MICHAEL ...
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Capital punishment, US style
prisoners to present their appeals. Racial discrimination People of colour are more likely to be sentenced ... hurt others. Last year the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics showed that children are more likely to be ... undermines the moral and legal foundations of society. I reject the notion that the death penalty has any ...
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why it is essential that organisations like Amnesty International remain politically aware of how they ... newspaper. The exercise would be time and energy well spent. Quemada, like the cinema of Chaplin and ... Eisenstein, is a film that should be embraced by each new generation of activists. Dave Riley Nundah Qld Small ...
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like a lick i' the lug. Not only women will benefit, but with a bit of luck more young men will be ... freed from the pressure of behaving like "one of the boys". It isn't a question of ... of the Left/Right "two party system". Goss, like Kennett, (Keating, Major or Clinton) is ...
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Media focus on anti-Hanson rallies
July 3 Telegraph featured a photo of 14-year-old Ben Riley being arrested at the July 2 rally and his ... like you've made us feel." Some of the coverage even went publicised further protest actions. ... organised by Resistance — have received a deluge of media attention in recent weeks. Nowhere has this been ...
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Riley on Absolutely Fabulous, he said of the show "a bitter satire" which it is not. Rather ... Unbalancing act It could be the start of a science fiction story; record floods in Europe, massive ... forest fires in America and Australia, unheard of drought in the North American prairies (over now), ...
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contrast the David Suzukis and the Stephen Hawkings and the New Age popularizers of science like to have ... badly in his criticism of Irina Glushchenko's article, Russia's Population Falls (GLW 59, June ... Russia's birth rate due to the economic crisis and a partial collapse of the medical system. In fact, the ...
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countries where there is extreme violence, like Kosovo. 80% of refugees are women and children. The total ... Write on: Letters to the editor Think again, Sidoti About your report [GLW #410] by Sean Healy of ... people, I wish to commend the latter for their clear understanding of the Burmese SPDC's ploy for ...
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of their lives is drawn from reality. It did happen like that. Self-criticism was once an essential ... not a history of the Communist Party of Australia. That has been written. It was not a novel ... representative of "the real people who lived their lives in dedication to their ideal". My Preface to ...
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denial of Gerry Adams' right to visit Australia. I would like to hear what he has to say, as I have ... the NT? Andrews' argument that the NT is making laws for the rest of Australia is also ... of NT laws? Col Friel Alawa NT [Abridged.] Privatisation Privatisation is a virus fed by those who ...