NEFA peace plan launchedSYDNEY — A proposal to resolve the decade-long forest dispute in north-east NSW was launched by the North East Forest Alliance on August 25. The proposal meets with the obligations of the
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Senator Christabel Chamarette is bemused by the recent flood of attention that the two federal parliamentary representatives of the Greens (WA) have received from the mass media. She and fellow Green (WA) Senator Dee Margetts
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A two-month long oil spill in the south-eastern part of the Niger delta in Nigeria is wrecking havoc on the local population and ecology. To date, the operating company, Royal Dutch Shell, has done nothing to stop the flow.
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Shell pollutes Sydney HarbourSYDNEY — While more than 10 tonnes of crude oil was spilled in a routine transfer between tankers at the Shell terminal at Gore Cove on July 19, to date, Shell has not been prosecuted.
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The tax on petrol in last week's federal budget received a mixed response from environmentalists. Hailed by the Australian Conservation Foundation as a long-overdue environmental and health reform, Greenpeace and the
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Paul Keating's H.V. Evatt lecture last April — his first detailed public statement on Labor's "republican vision" — was awash with pronouncements about "reconciliation" with Aborigines, entreaties to forge a so-called
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Rallies commemorate Hiroshima DayNearly 50 years after the atomic bomb was dropped on the Hiroshima and Nagasaki, peace activists in Brisbane, Hobart and Sydney rallied to remember those who died and to demand an end to the
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On most supermarket shelves these days, tuna cans are marked as "dolphin safe". For the unsuspecting consumer, the purchase of this item is preferable to those that are unmarked, which consumers rightly suspect to be the product
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Environmentalists have cautiously welcomed the findings of "Future Reaction", the Commonwealth's Research Reactor Review released on August 5. Greenpeace's Ben Pearson said that the review's findings reaffirm the safety,
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MELBOURNE — It seems that the Victorian government is determined to change the current public sector superannuation scheme by July, come hell or high water. While the rhetoric from finance minister Ian Smith has been
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Anti-Kennett rally for May 5MELBOURNE — Public sector unions are planning a rally on May 5 against the Kennett government's recent horror mini-budget. Among other cuts, it forecast the slashing of another 15,000 jobs and
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MELBOURNE — On the eve of the Kennett government's second mini-budget, due on April 6, the Victorian Council of Social Service has called on the government to target the rich rather than the public sector and capital works.