Anyone in doubt as to what Australia might look like under a Hewson government need search no further than New Zealand and Britain. There is little that's new in the Liberals' Fightback package. It is mostly borrowed
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New Zealand's Telecom Corporation, sold by the government to two United States companies in late 1990, has announced plans to cut its work force by 5200 over the next four years. The cuts were announced as the company
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The Mayne Nickless conglomerate, whose fleets of armoured cars have sometimes been the target of gun-wielding desperadoes, pulled a heist of its own over the holiday period. With an audacity that makes the Melbourne Club
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From a packed field, the Australian's Paddy McGuinness is rapidly emerging as Australia's leading crank columnist. In recent weeks, McGuinness has fearlessly taken on cyclists ("should be banned"), residents opposing
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Ageing, single-hulled oil tankers such as the Braer, banned from US ports since 1989, are still plying some of Australia's most environmentally sensitive waters. Under regulations adopted after the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster,
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SYDNEY — Ten mineworkers are sitting in underground at the NSW central coast colliery of Newvale in protest against plans by the state-run Pacific Power/Elcom to close the mine on January 31, with the loss of 114 jobs. The
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The South African government has got itself into deep trouble by failing to dismantle the apartheid system's death squads and other secret organisations of political destabilisation, says South African mineworkers' union leader
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Ombudsman accepts police 'twaddle'SYDNEY — The Australian Federal Police have lied to the federal ombudsman over incidents at the Aidex '91 protests in Canberra in November last year, says Denis Doherty of the Anti-Bases
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The most surprising thing about Ross Perot's campaign for the United States presidency was not his withdrawal last week, but the fact that a megalomaniac billionaire was able to win the support of millions. In a few weeks,
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The two-year blockade by the government of Papua New Guinea has strengthened support for independence on Bougainville, says Rosemarie Gillespie, an Australian lawyer just returned from a visit to the island. Bougainvilleans are
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What is foreign minister Gareth Evans trying to hide in Bougainville, asks Australian lawyer Rosemary Gillespie, just returned from a visit to the blockaded island, which she entered via a small boat from the neighbouring
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Forest protesters bamboo the RegentSYDNEY — Rainforest activists planned to erect a symbolic bamboo barricade across the entrance to the Sydney Regent hotel on July 13 in a re-enactment of a similar protest at the