GLW issue 440, published 2001-03-14.

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Land clearing a political hot potato

BY JIM GREEN Australia was the sixth largest land-clearing country last year, according to a report released by the Australian Conservation Foundation on March 1. The issue is now a political hot potato. The ACF report, Australian Land Clearing,

Detention centre inquiries vindicate refugees

BY ALISON DELLIT Two separate inquiries into the Australian government's refugee detention centres have confirmed reports that detained refugees have been harassed and the centres mismanaged. The picture that has emerged is of desert hell-holes

Grrrrr — Sexism at Griffith Uni

BY KATELYN MOUNTFORD Universities are back in full swing here in Queensland, and what better way to kick off a new semester than with a blatant and petulant attack on female students? Student paper Gravity, the publication of the Griffith

AFRICA: Drug companies put profits ahead of lives

BY NORM DIXON "I want someone to explain to me why it isn't called murder", said Stephen Lewis, former deputy director of the United Nations Children's Fund, in an article in the January 26 Toronto Globe and Mail. Lewis was commenting on the fact
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