By Stephen Robson
PERTH — Fifty-four thousand hectares of old growth karri and jarrah forest in the southern and central forests in WA are to be clear-felled by 1997, a report by the WA Conservation Council has revealed.
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Didgeridoo Concerto
Enrec Studios through Larrikin
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Reviewed by Francesca Davidson
Didgeridoo Concerto is an impressive 51 minutes of solo didgeridoo playing by musician Mark Atkins — reputedly
Nuclear waste dumped in SA
By Emma Webb
ADELAIDE — The first of 120 semi-trailer loads of radioactive waste from the Lucas Heights nuclear reactor in Sydney have been transferred to South Australia's far north. By the time the operation
On July 10 the Nepali parliament was dissolved by King Birendra following popular unrest directed at the Nepali Congress Party government. In the subsequent general elections on November 15, the Communist Party of Nepal, United Marxist Leninist
By Max Anderson
LONDON — The Unions 94/Campaigning for the Future conference was held at Congress House on November 19, "to discuss how to restore the influence of trade unions in the political and economic climate of the 1990s".
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Public transport
The recent University of Technology finding that in parts of George Street in the CBD the level of benzene — a cancer causing agent in petrol — is 500 per cent higher than the recommended safety standard reinforces the need
By Cassandra Fazio
I am on the plane, descending into Sydney, having left California the day of our tragic election results. I am seated next to a US pollster, one who finally asked my opinion of our democratic charade.
I lamented that our
Richmond campaign vindicated
By Geoff Spencer
MELBOURNE — Two years after Richmond Secondary College was closed in the first round of school cuts, the Kennett government has endorsed a report that recommends the expansion of coeducation
Indian Ocean union conference
By Stephen Robson
PERTH — The third Indian Ocean Region Trade Union conference concluded here on November 25. Represented at the six-day conference were 60 overseas trade unionists from South Africa, India,
NSW teachers strike in support of pay claim
By Paul Oboohov
SYDNEY — NSW school and TAFE teachers struck for 24 hours on November 23 in support of their 10% pay claim. This shut a fifth of NSW schools, with TAFE and the Education
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