GLW issue 145, published 1994-06-01.

Environmentally friendly

June 5 is World Environment Day. For most newspapers around the country, this is a signal to project a token green face for one day. To set one issue aside to make some noises about the environmental crisis and that we are all, after all, to blame.

Looking out: That look

Looking out: That look By Brandon Astor Jones I saw a fellow prisoner come into the cell block from outside where the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Centre's administrative offices for G-Unit are. He carefully and deliberately walked

1. Definition of pure science

1. Definition of pure science examining a given system using logic and especially mathematics to model a way the system might work so as to be able without fail to predict its future state, given enough knowledge of its present state

Survey documents anti-lesbian/gay violence

Survey documents anti-lesbian/gay violence By Kath Gelber Violence against lesbians and gay men is "endemic" according to a report released in Victoria by Gay Men and Lesbians Against Discrimination (GLAD). The report found 70% of lesbians

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Australian News

'Operation Sweep' renamed

'Operation Sweep' renamed By Sean Healy PERTH — Barely three weeks after declaring the suspension of "Operation Sweep", the police intend to relaunch it under the new name "Operation Family Values". "Sweep", begun in January, was

Unionists celebrate defeat of penal powers

Unionists celebrate defeat of penal powers By Garry Walters MELBOURNE — Following the May 26 Victorian Trades Hall meeting, 30 unionists attended a function in the Old Ballroom to mark 25 years since the historic six days of industrial

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International News

Croatia heads toward one-party state

By Jolyon Campbell As Croatia's autocratic president Franjo Tudjman and his ruling party the HDZ prepared to celebrate their fourth national day on May 30, the people of Croatia had little to be joyous about. With a third of Croatia's

Attempt to kill Nidia Diaz

Attempt to kill Nidia Diaz Maria Marta Valladares (Nidia Diaz), former rebel commander and current Assembly vice president in El Salvador, has charged that four death squad members shot 22 rounds at her vehicle on May 19, wounding her

Further International News

Editorial

Reinventing the Liberals

Reinventing the Liberals The ousting of John Hewson from the Liberal leadership represents more than a shuffling of the pack. Installing the media's "youth ticket" of Alexander Downer and Peter Costello marks a sharp turn to the right of the

Cultural Dissent

You can hear the jaws dropping

Frontline ABC-TV, Monday Reviewed by Dave Riley This is true: my jaw dropped during the first episode of Frontline and I still can't pucker up. In my prepubescent foolishness, I once kissed the TV screen during The Mickey Mouse Club in the

Justice denied

Presumed Guilty SBS television Tuesday, June 7 Reviewed by Paul Clarke Australia's legal system is modelled on Britain's, and for anyone watching Presumed Guilty, that is not a reassuring thought. The British legal system has been

Further Cultural Dissent

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