Dee Margetts is the Greens (WA) number one Senate candidate in the federal elections. She hopes to join Christabel Chamarette, who succeeded Jo Vallentine as Greens senator at the beginning of 1992.
Green Left Weekly
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PERTH — The government of Carmen Lawrence was dumped on February 6, bringing to an end 10 years of Labor in Western Australia. It was a decade marked by shonky business deals with the big end of town and of corruption.
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Perth forum discusses left alternativePERTH — More than 100 people attended a special Politics in the Pub here on January 22 to discuss prospects for a left alternative. It was chaired by Ian Alexander, the retiring
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PERTH — Heather Horne and Gail McIntosh, previously employed at Press Clough, a joint venture producing accommodation modules for Woodside's North West Shelf gas rig site, are currently bringing a case of
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As with other Third World countries, Vietnam has had a long struggle just to establish some basics of medical care that are taken for granted in industrialised countries. Take the problem of trachoma for example, an issue
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Laotian independence leader diesKaysone Phomvihane, the President of Laos and a prominent leader of the independence struggle in Laos died on November 21 at the age of 71. Kaysone participated in the student movement
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Brewery redevelopment stalledPERTH — The Legislative Council succeeded in delaying redevelopment work on the old Swan brewery on September 22 when it rejected an order that would have allowed the bypassing of planning
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A budget follows Keating's coursePERTH — Following in the footsteps of the federal budget, the Lawrence government brought down a slightly expansionary budget on September 1. With a state election expected in February,
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PERTH — Severely embarrassed by the international furore over the toxic waste ship, Maria Laura, the Australian government is under strong pressure to ban toxic waste exports. The controversial shipment was organised by
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PERTH — Backed by Perth's daily West Australian, the Lawrence government has launched a concerted campaign to marginalise opposition to the controversial development of the old Swan Brewery site. In fact, opposition to the development is widespread, as even the press have been forced to admit.
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Vietnam, Laos build ties to ASEANVietnam and Laos are likely to become members of ASEAN in the near future, after being given observer status at the organisation's ministerial meeting in Manila July 21-22. For Vietnam
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An agreement by China with the US-based Crestone Energy Company to explore some 25,000 square kilometres of seabed around the Spratly Islands has intensified the dispute over ownership of the archipelago. China passed a