By Dave Riley
Australia is home to 17 million people and 24 million cattle. On a cowpat ratio, that's one of the highest proportions of cattle to people in the world. In Queensland, beef cattle outnumber humans by more than two to one.
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Comment by Rob McKinnon-Lower
Chemicals don't procreate, living things do. So they are obviously inherently different — more organised, hence the term "organism". In the 1850s the laws which govern organic matter were unknown, and one of the
Competent managers
"[NSW] Treasury wanted to conduct an analysis of the risks of holding the Olympics, but Cabinet decided not to proceed with this until after Sydney won the Games." — Sydney Morning Herald, October 15.
Now they tell us
The personal and the political
Robyn Habel
Robyn Habel
Produced by Terry Bradford and Stuart Day
Larrikin Records
Reviewed by Melanie Sjoberg
It will be great news to many women in Adelaide that Robyn Habel has released a CD in her
Harvest of Fear: A History of Australia's Vietnam War
By John MurphyAllen & Unwin, 1993. 335 pp., $19.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
When the first Australian troops were sent to Vietnam in 1965, there was little public protest and little
By George Petersen
Shellharbour municipality, on the coast about 20 kilometres south of Wollongong, is virtually a dormitory suburb for workers in the Port Kembla industrial area, although a growing number of workers commute to Sydney. It has a
By Holly Hammond
and Tamara Desiatov
PERTH — It's Artrage time again, Perth's annual arts festival. Artrage has become a predominantly mainstream arts festival, with a lack of dissenting art and hence a lack of "rage".
Artrage has
By Max Lane
The Manila Rizal Branch of the Communist Party of the Philippines — known as MR — comprises about 5000 members and has influence within a range of organisations with a base of 120,000 people even in quiet times. Visiting Manila
ADELAIDE — Sixty workers from the Department of Family and Community Services gathered in their lunch break on October 11 to protest against staffing cutbacks at DFACS. Public Service Association representative John McGuinness told the workers that
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Since tanks of the armed forces finally blew away Russia's parliament on October 4, President Boris Yeltsin has moved swiftly to suspend, disband or intimidate the major potential sources of opposition to his rule.