Should an environmental and social impact study be carried out before Australia signs any treaty coming out of the Uruguay Round of the GATT "free trade" agreements? This idea was raised by Greenpeace Australia spokesperson Noni
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Paul Keating's visit to the US put a crack in the myth that the uncompleted Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade talks was really about bringing in a new era of global "free trade". His discussions with US
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Surveys find profits boomingCorporate profits have shot up dramatically — almost returning to their peak before the recession. The Australian Financial Review's survey of 500 large companies, released on September 21,
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Kennett to axe 18,000 more jobsMELBOURNE — Victoria's official unemployment rate hit a post-1930s high of 13% in August, yet in its September 7 budget the Kennett government announced plans to get rid of another 18,000
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The Keating government's draft legislation on land rights, released on September 2, quashes hopes that the government would strengthen the High Court's limited recognition of Aboriginal "native title". In fact, the effect will be
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On the eve of the ACTU Congress, Democratic Socialist Party national secretary John Percy urged the unions to break its Accord with the Keating Labor government because it had proved to be a millstone around the neck of the
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Keating caves in to mining companies on MaboThe Keating government has pulled the rug from under Aboriginal people in the post-Mabo negotiations by agreeing to help state governments validate all land titles granted since
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"The primary objective of this budget is jobs", said federal treasurer John Dawkins in his budget speech on August 17. However, the budget did little to tackle the problem beyond a modest stimulus to the economy, a few more
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The Wik people's claim for recognition of their "native title" in the Cape York Peninsula has become the latest focus of the mining companies' hysteria over the consequences of the High Court's 1992 Mabo decision. Queensland
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Melbourne's WestscapesMELBOURNE — For most of the life of this city — spawned of the 1850s gold rush — its western suburbs have been considered too ugly to feature as a subject artists. These working- class suburbs
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An historic meeting of about 500 Aboriginal organisations and communities from around Australia met in Eva Valley in the Northern Territory between August 3-5 to work out a united response to the Mabo case. It firmly rejected
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On July 26 the federal cabinet worked out new drafting instructions on a legislative response to the 1992 Mabo land rights case. This represents an attempt to come to a common position with Liberal state governments in Western