By Karen Fry and Alex Bainbridge
NEWCASTLE — A state government commission of inquiry into the Pasminco Metals-Sulphide company's proposed $41 million expansion was held January 10-14. The expansion aims to increase production by up to 30%,
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The Politics of Dispossession: The Struggle for Palestinian Self-Determination 1969-1994
By Edward W. Said
Chatto & Windus, 1994. 420 pp., $39.95 (hb)
Reviewed by Sean Moysey
Coincidentally while pondering the sharp and intriguing
Bunji: A story of the Gwalwa Daraniki movement
By Bill Day
Aboriginal Studies Press, 1994. 156 pp.
Reviewed by Deb Sorensen
There is a consistently unfunny comic strip which appears in the Northern Territory News titled Bunji. On first
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — In the foothills of the Caucasus mountains near Russia's southern border, the battle is still raging for Grozny, the capital of the rebellious Chechen republic. At many other points throughout Chechnya, a popular
The Killing of History: How a Discipline is Being Murdered by Literary Critics and Social Theorists
By Keith Windschuttle
Macleay, 1994. 266 pp., $39.95 (hb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
Foucault, Barthes, Lyotard, Baudrillard, Derrida, Lacan
You're in safe hands
By John Queripel
MANILA — In a bizarre case, police senior superintendent Teodorico Viduya has been charged with killing another officer, chief inspector Rocky Victoria, in Santa Lucia, Pasig, Metro Manila.
The
Privatisation pays off
By John Queripel
MANILA — Philippine government-owned oil company Petron was recently privatised. If you've ever thought a government-owned company was underpriced when privatised, here was your example par
Monuments
By Karl-Erik Paasonen
Where are the statues for civilians killed?
I want monuments for the victims
Where are the statues for the dead of Hanoi?
I want monuments for the victims
And where are the statues for Australians
Concern for press in Serbia and Croatia
Members of the European parliament from six countries sent telegrams on January 9 to the presidents of Serbia and of Croatia expressing concern over measures to stifle press freedom in both those
Profiting from the Cuba blockade
By Jill Hickson
Much has been made in the establishment's media of Gareth Evans' recent trip to Cuba. While he cited human rights and debt repayment concerns, the main reason for Evans' trip — the first
By Jennifer Thompson
The December 8 conviction and heavy sentencing of eight Kurdish deputies of the Turkish parliament completed a long process of systematic suppression by the Turkish military and governing coalition.
Fifteen-year
By Helen Jarvis
PHNOM PENH — "Time's up for the Khmer Rouge" was the title of a talk given by Tuon Chay, governor of Siem Reap, at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Cambodia on January 4.
Chay, who is running the program to seek
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