By Greg Peters
STOCKHOLM — The Swedish government has landed in one of its biggest crises to date with plans to build a permanent road and rail link over the resund to Denmark. This engineering monsterpiece, intended as a symbol of new and
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Meeting supports public transport
By Alex Cooper
MELBOURNE — At its peak the smog in Melbourne is equal to that in New York, according to Dr Graeme Lorimer, an environment specialist. Addressing a meeting of 250 people at the Melbourne
By Michael Rafferty
The 1980s have been called the decade of the femocrat. In the 1980s, women began to move through the management ranks of government departments and many large companies. Quite apart from the new middle class of "sisters in
Handy reference on Indonesia
A Dictionary of Indonesian History Since 1900
By G. B. Clancy
Sydney: Sunda Publications. 236 pp. $15.00
Reviewed by Max Lane
This is a modest but quite good publication. It will be particularly useful
Abortion picket marks IWD
By Freya Pinney
BRISBANE — "This demonstrates how so-called pro-lifers value only the life of the foetus and devalue the lives of health workers and women", said Mary Barram, spokesperson for the Women's
By Stephen Robson
PERTH — The recent WA state election revealed some quite different attitudes to the issue of preferences among the various alternative candidates.
The Australian Democrats dropped their usual policy of an open ticket
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Antinuclear activists in Russia plan a vigorous campaign against a new government program which would increase sharply the number of nuclear power reactors operating on Russian territory. The government's plans
Genuine
"He is the duly elected president of Russia and a genuine democrat." — US President Bill Clinton, explaining why he will support Boris Yeltsin if the latter dissolves the Russian parliament and institutes emergency rule.
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Black deaths protest
By Sean Pybus
HOBART — Groups including Support for Aboriginal Rights Tasmania (SART) gathered on March 2 at the opening ceremony of the state parliament.
SART had planned a three-day vigil to pressure the
Parties speak on women's issues
By Alison Dellit
ADELAIDE — About 50 people packed into the Talbot Hotel on the night of March 10 for a meeting, organised by the Democratic Socialists, to hear and question representatives from the Labor
By Brian T. Carey
The surviving members of the New Left Party have called a special conference, on March 20-21, to consider winding it up as a left political/electoral party, and replacing what remains by some loose form of network. To a
Comment by Teresa Dowding
There was so much that frustrated and angered me in Susan Barley's article ("Child-care and promises", GLW March 10) that I felt compelled to answer some of her assertions.
As a working mother of one child, I am
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