In March, much of the world was shocked by the suicides of a group of 39 people in California. The members of a small religious cult, they believed, not that they were ending their lives, but that they were being transported to a
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Tariffs and 'free trade'Several weeks ago, the federal government publicly retreated from its announced target of tariff reduction on cars. Car corporations and unions alike welcomed the move as likely to encourage
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Environment versus the market"Industry" has a bad name among environmentalists. The mental picture that most of us form when we hear the word is a chimney belching poisonous gases or a pipe pouring toxic wastes into a
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Here we go again. For the second time this year, business, media and politicians are bombarding us with propaganda for tax "reform". The word has to be put in inverted commas, because they don't really mean reform — i.e.,
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A federal government green paper, "Sustainable Energy Policy for Australia", was released late last year with not much fanfare. It was supposedly intended as the first step towards developing an energy policy with a 25-year
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The federal Liberal Party is looking into ways of changing the voting system for the Senate, according to reports in the Bulletin and the Sydney Morning Herald. The aim would be to ensure that governments would normally have a
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The things you'd never know if you didn't read the Sydney Morning Herald! For example, check your knowledge of current events by answering the following multiple choice question: Mal Colston is: (a) the biggest rorter in the
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Government inspection of foods arose from experience: as industrial capitalism developed, it became clear that only fear of the law could restrain some capitalists from selling adulterated and/or poisonous goods. In his book The
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The January-February issue of New Internationalist contains an article by Jeremy Seabrook, "A world to be won", subtitled "The future of the left". The topic is one that has been much discussed since the disintegration of the
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ABC managing director Brian Johns has put himself in deep trouble with the Howard government by agreeing to the telecast of Gough Whitlam's inaugural "Whitlam Lecture" to the Trade Union Education Foundation on February 9 —
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Do unto others as they do unto others. Especially when the first others are the US government. This is evidently the sound reasoning of two Canadian Liberal MPs, John Godfrey and Peter Milliken. Godfrey and Milliken, like a great
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Pip Hinman is not available to write at present, but I am happy to defend the position she put in her August 21 article and September 25 letter — all the more so because I think that following Wayne Hall's advice would seriously