GLW issue 170, published 1994-12-07.

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Air pollution and asthma

By Herbert Beauchamp Australia has the dubious honour of having the highest incidence of asthma in the world. Twenty-five per cent of children in Australia have asthma, and the rate has doubled over the last 10 years. To the well-known

Lesbians and the media: the price of visibility

The good, the bad and the gorgeous: Popular culture's romance with lesbianism Edited by Diane Hamer and Belinda Budge Harper Collins, 1994. 253 pp., $24.95 (pb) Reviewed by Kath Gelber With all the fuss about lesbians in popular culture

Nostradamus' Media Watch

By Craig Cormick Based on highly reliably international contacts, leaked documents and horoscopes from several TV magazines, Nostradamus' Media Watch presents a highly accurate forecast of political events across the globe. Downer offered

TOES: prophets, populism or a green left perspective?

By Greg Ogle While Paul Keating was holding his November 24-25 national strategies conference, there was another economic forum addressing the problems confronting Australia. This was, literally, The Other Economic Summit (TOES), a people's
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