From day one, it was clear that the two-week constitutional convention would achieve its desired aim — to construct an elaborate show of "the Australian people" deciding an important course for the nation. However, with both Labor
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Coming in the wake of Pauline Hanson's strident anti-Asian views, the government's decision to cut the family reunion program — a move which will largely affect Asian migrants — reveals, once again,
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Greenhouse gases: Australia tries to block agreementIn a little more than six months, parties to the Framework Convention on Climate Change, signed at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, will meet in Kyoto, Japan,
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"The announcement last week by Queensland Liberal Party president Steve Wilson that his party would direct preferences to Pauline Hanson at the next election reveals the connection between them. Hanson is the Liberals' stalking horse:
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The celebrated "failure" of a media stunt in John Howard's NSW electoral office, organised by Friends of Hinchinbrook a few weeks ago, raises some interesting tactical issues for the environment movement. A protest against the Federal
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Protests against nuclear waste shipmentThe WA Greens have issued a protest against the secrecy and misinformation surrounding a highly dangerous shipment of nuclear waste travelling from France to Japan. "Any mishap would require
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There's a perception that the ABC has been spared because the Mansfield inquiry did not recommend further budget cuts and opposed the introduction of sponsorship and advertising. This is dead wrong. The ABC is facing the biggest
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The $7 billion of cuts in last year's federal budget were obviously going to have a worse impact on the poor. A study commissioned by the Australian Council for Social Service (ACOSS) and the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU)
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The misinformation and hysteria surrounding December's High Court judgment on Wik has reached epic proportions. Federal and state governments and their supporters in the mining and pastoral industries have
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Greenpeace to document Antarctic climate changeIn an attempt to pressure governments to set greenhouse targets, Greenpeace has embarked on a four-week expedition to document emerging signs of climate change in the Antarctic. The
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Greens protest funding cutsEnvironmental organisations and the Greens (WA) have condemned the Howard government's decision, announced on January 16, to cut funding to voluntary conservation groups. Greens (WA) Senator Dee Margetts
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The Coalition government is attempting to squeeze maximum political mileage from the adoption of a resolution it submitted to the UN General Assembly on September 11. The resolution called for the signing of the Comprehensive Test Ban