Broadside
I read with disappointment of the demise of Broadside (GLW, April 28). Whenever a left journal folds it often reflects the unfavourable political circumstances rather than the merits of the particular publication.
However, one
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In a country town, ANN MATHESON finds that little changes — especially the things that should change. After a lifetime of city newsrooms, vying for premium parking spaces, fighting deadlines and jostling for service, I was sure that if I
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[This is the winning entry in the Environmental Youth Alliance essay competition for high school students.] One of the most important issues facing young Australians today is the problem of worldwide environmental
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SYDNEY — The latest talks between the NSW minister for health, Ronald Phillips, and the Australian Medical Association, held on April 27, failed to resolve the dispute which threatens to leave the public health system without
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Man's Town A Man's Town — Inequality between Women and Men in Rural Australia was published last year by Dr Ken Dempsey, a reader in sociology at La Trobe University in Victoria. It was based on field work spanning 17 years in a rural
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Back to business Figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics on April 27 show that while nearly 60% of male workers earned more than the average wage of $510.20 per week last year, over 70% of women workers earned less. The
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Stella Simmering Guilty until proven innocent The second draft of the Crimes Amendment Bill (Victoria) gives police the power to obtain name and address from the public on demand. If a person refuses, s/he is guilty of a summary offence
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MELBOURNE — In the last days of the Kirner Labor government of Victoria, the report of an independent review of the state public sector's finances (the Nicholls Review) was released. While the media made much of its finding
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International Playhouse: Automatic Pilot — A radio play by Erika Ritter. Charlie lives in Toronto. She's 28 and trying to develop a career as a stand-up comedian. She drinks too much and her husband has discovered he is gay. All Charlie wants is
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Prime Minister Keating's New Visions for Australia speech at the Evatt Foundation annual dinner on April 28 has been hailed as a historic milestone in Australia's political development. Others say Keating has sucked the content from the so-called
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In January small parties of residents and tourists made inspections of logging operations in the Otway State Forest on the south-west coast of Victoria between Geelong and Apollo Bay. One particular site, Henry Road on the
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In his article "Ambiguous names and places" (GLW, April 21), Gyorgy Scrinis claims that I set up a simple distinction between "Greeks" and "Macedonians", whereas in reality different peoples regard themselves as
News
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MELBOURNE — The group People Against Rape in Bosnia Hercegovina and Croatia is organising a rally on Mother's Day, May 9. The group is made up of members from the Croatian community, the Bosnian Muslim community,
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Victorian law on indefinite imprisonmentMELBOURNE — Harsh new sentencing legislation was passed by Victoria's parliament on April 29, a week after its introduction by state attorney general Jan Wade. The law provides for
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Timorese youth tour US A delegation of East Timorese youth toured North America in April. Delegation members Elizabeth Exposto and Danilo Henriques, who now live in Australia, told һƷ̽ Weekly upon their return on April 28 that during
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APPM threatens Tarkine, jobsHOBART — APPM on April 23 announced plans to build a $30 million hardwood woodchip mill at Hampshire, on Tasmania's north-west coast. The location would place the mill close to a
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Kennett cuts emergency servicesMELBOURNE — In the latest round of cuts to community services the Kennett government has targeted the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, Country Fire Authority and the ambulance service.
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BRISBANE — On April 27 Brisbane City Council moved to restrict severely peaceful assemblies in Brisbane malls. New regulations require organisers of mall protests to give two weeks' notice of their activity. Permits will
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Leaders "I think in the longer term if there is a clear view that the people of Australia want change, and that change is sensible and there is overwhelming community support for it, I'm sure all political parties in the end will recognise that
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ALP moves to oust SPSF left leadershipMELBOURNE — Nominations for the State Public Services Federation elections closed on April 26. The elections are being contested by four organised tickets, three of which have
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Strange as it sounds, plans to upgrade Australian railways are likely to lead to a big increase in road traffic. And they are certain to result in a massive loss of jobs. Like most other public utilities in Australia today,
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For sale: the right to pollute?MELBOURNE — Companies may be able to buy and sell the right to pollute the environment in the future, if federal environment minister Ros Kelly has her way. According to the
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ADELAIDE — Ecopolis and Urban Ecology Australia have initiated a new and exciting plan for the suburb of Halifax. The design is based on concepts of ecological sustainability, social equity and the involvement of people.
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Australia accused on whaling Since last year, Australia has been quietly supporting policies that would allow the resumption of commercial whaling, according to Sue Arnold of Australians for Animals. According to the group, the Australian
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Street appeal PERTH — Animal Liberation is a completely voluntary organisation, receiving no government or other funding, which aims to put a stop to institutionalised cruelty to animals. Collectors are desperately needed to help with
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WOLLONGONG — South Coast Labour Council secretary Paul Matters and Australian Workers Union organiser Neville Hilton are both facing charges under the NSW Crimes Act as a result of their involvement in a picket line at the
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An aged pensioner and spokesperson for the Gungalidda people of the north-west Queensland gulf country has taken on the might of mining giant CRA. Wadjalurbinna, travelling on her pension and sending money home to her 17-year-old
Analysis
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Bosnia: end the embargo In Bosnia today we see another example of how the so-called "international community's" insistence on being the prime agent for imposing solutions on "world trouble spots" almost always increases the suffering and
World
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MARI ALKATIRI is a senior member of the Fretilin Central Committee in exile. He was interviewed in Sydney for һƷ̽ Weekly by Max Lane. Could you tell us why you are visiting Australia? I have received a mandate from the leadership
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Refugee family denied asylumA Romany refugee family, denied asylum by the Cologne city council (led by the Social Democrats), is now in hiding to avoid forced deportation to Macedonia. Asylum was denied on the basis
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Just two weeks after the terrible murder of Chris Hani, the South African liberation movement has suffered another tragic loss with the death of long-time African National Congress leader Oliver Tambo. For almost 50 years,
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Loggers cheat Solomon Islands The Solomon Islands government says logging companies operating in the country have been cheating Solomon Islands of millions of dollars in timber export revenues annually. It will attempt to recover US$300,000
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By S. Piyasena "We left the government when murder became a part of politics." That was the way Lalith Arthulathmudali, a former senior minister in the Sri Lankan government, explained his break with President Premadasa and the latter's
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MOSCOW — Sixteen months after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the sense that Russia had slipped back into the era of "plebiscite" elections was uncanny. There was only one name on the ballot paper. Voters were
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US asbestos bound for Turkey ISTANBUL — The crew of Greenpeace sailing boat Vega boarded the famous luxury liner SS United States on April 23 to protest against plans to strip her of more than 15,000 square metres of deadly asbestos and to
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General strike threat in Fiji The Fiji Trade Union Congress has threatened a national strike if the government fails to abolish controversial labour laws. The Fiji Daily Post reported on April 15 that FTUC general secretary James Raman
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British toxic waste down the sewer Friends of the Earth in Britain on April 28 named 23 companies in the north-east that have been pouring toxic waste down the drain. The companies include household names such as Ever Ready, Sterling Winthrop
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Middle East talks resumeThe Middle East Peace talks resumed in Washington on April 27. һƷ̽ Weekly spoke to Israeli commentator Amos Wollin on the possible outcome. Wollin said that, under pressure from the
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PRAGUE — When Greenpeace activists first came here in 1984, they were shot at while hanging banners from one of Czechoslovakia's ubiquitous smoking chimneys in protest against acid rain. One year ago the environmental
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MP's death confirmedThe death of Ken Savia, the minister of health in the Bougainville Interim Government and former minister for health in the North Solomons Provincial Government, has been confirmed by the Papua New
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Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Paias Wingti's handling of the Bougainville crisis has come under heavy fire from his own foreign affairs minister, John Kaputin. The criticisms were contained in a letter Kaputin sent from Brussels, which was
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WASHINGTON — Media reports of the March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Rights and Liberation quoted a Park Service estimate of 300,000 participants. This would be a disappointment if true, since 1 million persons
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Cuba fights neuritis outbreak HAVANA — The Cuban daily Granma on April 27 lashed out at a foreign media disinformation campaign around the outbreak of optic neuritis on the island. Optic neuritis is a vision-impairing disease. It was
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MOSCOW — Within days of claiming victory in his April 25 referendum, Boris Yeltsin was moving ahead with plans to introduce a new constitution that would transform Russia into a "presidential republic". On April 27
Culture
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Mouth"Capitalism — your want for personal gain ... In this world there is not enough for you to own so much", screams Tim Evans, singer and guitarist for the band Mouth — a classic line, echoed on T-shirts and
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The enemy within Health and the lack of it are not purely medical issues. The myriad of factors which may be involved in causing disease are taken up in Norman Swan's four-part series Invisible Enemies, screening Sundays at 7.30 p.m. (7.00 in
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Top Girls The Sydney Theatre Company Written by Caryl Churchill Directed by Melissa Bruce At the Wharf Theatre, Sydney, until May 29 Reviewed by Karen Fredericks "Top Girls came out of the climate of having a right-wing woman prime
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A Celtic Breeze in the Antipodes Sirocco Jara Hill Records through Larrikin Available on cassette and CD The Evergreen Realm Sirocco Jara Hill Records through Larrikin Available on Cassette and CD Reviewed by Ian Jamieson
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When the Solomon Islands Development Trust (SIDT) was founded in 1981 to inform rural Solomon Islanders about issues relating to resource development, it found that lecture-style meetings aroused little enthusiasm in the
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Overdue tribute Ain't Misbehavin'Featuring Marian Caffey, Frank Farrow III, Carla Renata Williams, Sharon Scott and Gail Anderson Theatre Royal Sydney until May 29 Reviewed by Norm Dixon Tributes to the great African American artists