On May 24, 1991, the Eritrean Peoples Liberation Front (EPLF) won its long armed struggle against the Ethiopian government. In April the Eritrean people will freely express their right to self-determination in a referendum on
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Linn Van Hek and Joe Dolce presented Difficult Women, readings and songs celebrating "women who have dared to stand up and speak", to completely sold out seasons at Melbourne's La Mamma and Budinski's theatres last year. Then,
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The decline in the third party, and especially Democrat, votes in the federal election, compared to 1990, can be expected to renew the pressures for merger between the Democrats and Bob Brown's Australian
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Tax the rich, says Brotherhood of St LaurenceMELBOURNE — According to Bishop Michael Challen, executive director of the Brotherhood of St Laurence (a major welfare organisation) "incomes at the bottom of the scale must
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On the eve of the Kennett government's Employee Relations Act coming into operation in Victoria, there is hardly a union official in the state who is prepared to say in public what most rank and file unionists know: that the
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MELBOURNE — On March 1, some 800,000 workers in Victoria covered by state awards are forced to make a choice: sign an employment contract (individual or collective) or have award conditions automatically rolled over into an
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Left unions publish new paperMELBOURNE — A number of Victorian unions under left-wing leadership and some community groups have produced the first issue of a new monthly newspaper called FrontLine. Their aim is to "help
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A Hewson victory at the federal election would be a health hazard. Fightback would abolish bulk billing for all except pensioners and other health care card holders. Constraints on doctors' fees would be lifted, and a
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MELBOURNE — Community action groups are trying to keep up the momentum of the campaign against the Kennett government through numerous demonstrations and protest meetings, but the government is beginning to
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MELBOURNE — "While Liberal and Labor state governments around the country are retreating on election promises to safeguard our environment, the federal government must step in and play a progressive role in maintaining and
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Following the development last spring of the deepest and widest ozone hole ever recorded over Antarctica, the governments of 93 countries agreed in November to speed up the phasing out of ozone-destroying chemicals. However,
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It wasn't very long ago that we listened with horror to reports on the so-called "New Zealand experiment". The Australian equivalent could turn out to be worse. Jeff Kennett's "radical" program of labour market deregulation and