GLW issue 330, published 1998-08-26.

Lucas Heights EIS released

By Jim Green SYDNEY — The environmental impact statement (EIS) for the proposed new nuclear reactor in the southern Sydney suburb of Lucas Heights was released on August 17. The EIS was prepared by the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology

Action updates

Action updates Protesters occupy mining company office HOBART — About 40 protesters occupied the offices North Forest Products on August 21, in a spontaneous response to the Federal Court's dismissal of the appeal by the Mirrar people against

Wollongong floods: an act of God?

By Dave Holmes WOLLONGONG — The massive inundation of the region has been a compelling and sobering experience for all who live here. The normally imposing fabric of our built-up environment and the lives it enables us to lead have been shown to

Racism: the record of the Coalition and ALP

Racism: the record of the Coalition and ALP By James Vassilopoulos Peter Beattie, the Queensland Labor premier, was quoted in the August 8 Courier-Mail responding to charges by Resistance that both major parties had carried out racist policies

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Australian News

More budget cuts for schools

More budget cuts for schools By Melanie Sjoberg ADELAIDE — South Australia's specialised adult re-entry schools are facing cuts of $1 million each year for the next three years. Adult re-entry schools cater for people returning to study, as

Greenhouse pollution

Greenhouse pollution According to Greenpeace, Queensland shale oil developers Suncor Energy and Southern Pacific Petroleum have misled the public and their shareholders by claiming that their planned Stuart shale oil project will reduce the amount

Further Australian News

International News

A pre-crisis look at Japan's production backyard

OZ Asia in Japan's Embrace: Building a Regional Production AllianceBy Walter Hatch and Kozo YamamuraCambridge University Press1997 (first published in 1996)281 pp., $34.95 (pb) Review by Eva Cheng Asia in Japan's Embrace tries to establish that

Court un-bans PRD, but harassment continues

By Max Lane On August 10, Indonesia's State Administrative Court upheld an appeal by Budiman Sujatmiko, as president of the People's Democratic Party (PRD), against a ministerial regulation banning the PRD and its affiliated mass organisations. The

Further International News

Editorial

A terrorist state

A terrorist state At 7.15pm on August 20, without warning, a series of massive blasts destroyed the Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in the heavily populated northern suburbs of Khartoum, capital of Sudan. The factory's janitor and his family are

Cultural Dissent

Fair go!

Not an advertisement Fair go! ACOSS and poor people are complaining about a GST on food. But what about multimillionaires? We haven't paid taxes on much of anything for years, and now the government is going to make us (or our companies) pay GST

Vanunu's story

Morde — Written by Paul ReesLion Theatre8pm nightly, until August 29$18/$10 concession ADELAIDE — What has St John's Church in Darlinghurst, Sydney, got to do with nuclear weapons in Israel? Morde draws them together in an excellent play about

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