Everyone hopes to be a winner when they buy a lottery ticket or place a bet at the TAB. That is certainly the emphasis of the slick advertising for the burgeoning legal gambling industry.
But even those who fervently
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Since the Australian High Court delivered its judgement in Eddie Mabo & Others vs the State of Queensland nearly a year ago, opinions on the meaning of this decision have multiplied. One sort of opinion, however, has had a
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After hearing about Tanner '88 — the six-hour TV serial that inspired Tim Robbins' Bob Roberts — at the launch of Melbourne's 42nd International Film Festival (June 4-18), I went to see Bob Roberts. Now I have to see
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On May 13 the ACTU executive rejected a call by several unions covering low-paid workers for a national wage claim of $8 per week for workers who had not managed to strike enterprise bargains with their employers. ACTU
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MELBOURNE — The day after a large May 5 march and rally against the Kennett government's budget cuts and attacks on superannuation benefits of public sector workers, a $2 million "audit" of the state's
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MELBOURNE — In the last days of the Kirner Labor government of Victoria, the report of an independent review of the state public sector's finances (the Nicholls Review) was released. While the media made much of its finding
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The Australian Democrat-initiated independent parliamentary inquiry into tariffs and industry development has called for a 12-month pause in tariff reduction and an urgent reappraisal of industry policy. The final report
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Prime Minister Paul Keating's April 21 address to the Institute of Company Directors was a sharp reminder that his government remains firmly committed to the conservative, "economic rationalist" agenda — despite attempts to
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MELBOURNE — Jose Pires left East Timor 17 years ago. He was eight years old. With his brothers and sisters he was bundled into a car and rushed to Dili wharf where the last ship was preparing to depart. The port was ablaze.
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In her first interview after the elections, environment minister Ros Kelly signalled that the Keating government would take a tough stance towards environmental groups. She told the March 31 Melbourne Age that the government's
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Occupied school to resist closureMELBOURNE — The parents, students and community activists who are occupying and operating Richmond Secondary College (one of 52 schools official closed by the Kennett government last
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In a frank essay for the March 22 Time magazine, retiring industry minister Senator John Button summed up the federal election result: Labor was seen to have "stuffed it", but "in the end, a skeptical electorate decided that