Unearth ThisOb(zine) Blue Mountains/western Sydney music compilationAvailable from PO Box 300, Blaxland NSW 2774 or <http://fly.to/obzine>This collection of 17 tracks by different bands from the western Sydney/Blue
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Greenhouse bluesA report released by the Australian Greenhouse Office in July shows that Australia's greenhouse gas emissions jumped by 16.9% in the eight years to 1998. Under the Kyoto Summit commitments, Australia is supposed to
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'Vote with your feet' on May 28SYDNEY — Supporters of Aboriginal rights should make a statement against government attitudes to reconciliation by marching across the Sydney Harbour Bridge at the Council for Aboriginal
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SYDNEY — Recycling of waste by local NSW councils is in danger of collapse and many councils are threatening to stop collections within weeks, according to the Local Government Recycling Co-operative. The packaging industry has
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Brazilian Indian burned aliveA Brazilian judge has caused outrage with an extraordinary ruling in the case of the killing of an Indian, Galdino Jesus dos Santos. On September 29 Judge Sandra de Santis Mello ruled that the charge
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When computers dieWhat happens to old computers when they die? Is there a sort of "elephants' graveyard" where they all disappear? Yes, in a way. It's called the Third World. The technological revolution has created a
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A Greenpeace protest in Hong Kong Harbour in September stymied an attempt to export illegally Australian toxic computer scrap. Early on September 22, 10 Greenpeace activists occupied the freighter Zim Sydney in Hong Kong Harbour
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Trade in poisonsAccording to the United Nations, 98% of the worlds toxic waste is generated by the 24 countries of the OECD. These rich countries are running out of ways to deal with this waste, and disposal costs are
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One hundred representatives of native peoples from Brazil, Venezuela and Guyana held their first ever summit in Boa Vista, capital of Brazil's northernmost state of Roraima, for four days at the end of August. Leaders from the
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Contamination at French plutonium factoryOn September 18, the French nuclear reprocessing company Cogema sought an injunction to stop Greenpeace from sampling the sea floor near its discharge pipeline at La Hague. Cogema is
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Nuclear power states bend international lawThe wording of a protocol that sets new arrangements on liability and compensation for nuclear accidents was decided at an International Atomic Energy Agency meeting in Vienna on
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Steps toward ending radioactive dumping in oceansOn the final day of the meeting of the OSPAR Convention on September 5 in Brussels, the British and French governments for the first time agreed to moves to end marine nuclear