When the Labor Party won federal government in 1983, unemployment was on the doorstep of 10%. With the active participation of the ACTU, the Hawke government embarked upon a Robin Hood-in-reverse scheme to transfer a greater
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Ok Tedi: PNG and BHP run scaredThe Papua New Guinea government will attempt to legislate retrospectively to protect itself and the Australian mining company BHP from a $4 million environmental lawsuit being brought by
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In March, for no apparent reason, New Zealand Prime Minister Jim Bolger declared for a republic in 2000. Many in his own National Party were taken by surprise, and the opposition Labour Party could only mutter that it would be
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"We are in fact proud of our achievements at Ok Tedi", pronounced Jerry Ellis, BHP's mineral division chief, in the face of a $4 billion compensation claim lodged by local landowners in the Papua New Guinea Highlands. The
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Unemployment is growing in all the advanced industrial countries despite several of these economies coming out of recession. In March, ministers from the Group of Seven (G-7), the most powerful industrial countries, met in
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There are those who insinuate themselves into the progressive movements to gain a hearing for reactionary agendas. One such group recently unmasked is Australians Against Further Immigration (AAFI). Their point of entry into the
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Bougainville fighting continuesThe Bougainville Interim Government has moved to clear up any misunderstanding over comments by its United Nations representative, Mike Forster. Forster, in an interview with NBC radio, was
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Sinn Fein member denied visaSYDNEY — County Tyrone councillor and Sinn Fein member Barry McElduff was denied a visa to visit Sydney and thus prevented, amongst other things, from addressing the International Green Left
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SYDNEY — "It is a fantastic ideal to introduce people to the fact that you're not a working stiff, but you are a person that has talents you probably don't know you have, or you've got an appreciation of all sorts of other
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With nearly 50% of the population coming from homes where a language other than English is spoken, rugby league club Canterbury-Bankstown has decided to reorient its promotion of the game. Easter Monday was the third
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Heat danger for sports peopleSYDNEY — Following the pre-season Tooheys Challenge competition, played in the heat of rural New South Wales, some Rugby League officials appeared contemptuous of concerns expressed by
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SYDNEY — As the 1994 Rugby League season got under way, players, through their union, registered their first dispute with the clubs in the Industrial Relations Commission. On March 17 the commission declared that a dispute