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Health fears at Leigh Creek By Michael Unger The Leigh Creek Trust, a group of 130 former Leigh Creek residents and workers, is preparing for a Supreme Court class action against the Electricity Trust of South Australia (ETSA). Leigh
By Michael Tardif and Sujatha Fernandes COLOMBO — The Korea-Ceylon Footwear Manufacturing Company is a joint venture in the Colombo free trade zone. In the last four months the company has been the site of significant workers' struggles and is
By Jennifer Thompson The clamour of demands for action to cut the federal budget deficit and current account deficit has risen in the past month to a cacophony. Federal Labor faces the recurring problem associated with a period of economic
Environment policy launched By Roberto Jorquera SYDNEY — A lively discussion around environmentally sustainable alternatives marked the environment policy forum for the Democratic Socialist campaign in the NSW elections. Speakers at
Taking the Risk out of Democracy: Propaganda in the US and Australia By Alex Carey University of NSW Press, 1995. 214 pp., $19.95 Reviewed by Alex McCutcheon As Alex Carey sees it, "The twentieth century has been characterized by three
Sri Lankan students in eight-year campaign Students at the Institute of Aesthetic Studies in Colombo have been struggling for eight years to win hostel accommodation, better facilities and increased funding. For the last two years, they have
By Anthony Brown Since discovering what appears to be a major oil find in the Timor Gap in February 1994, Brisbane-based oil and gas company Petroz NL has been the focus of protests over Australian exploitation of the situation in East Timor.
In mid-1993, with little fanfare, 1680 scientists from 49 countries signed and published a "World Scientists' Warning to Humanity." Of these 1680 scientists, 104 were Nobel prize winners. Below, we print the text of their warning. Publication of the
Burn Witch Burn — A comedy. John is entering a spectacular float in the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. He is keeping it secret from flatmate Matthew, who has gone all right wing and paranoid. Rani discovers the giant float in the bathroom, disguised
by Hannah Friedman Ahmad Ibrahim Sa'id, engineering student at Birzeit University and Hamas activist, stood before his interrogators. They announced, "We've taken off the gloves. We're acting on an explicit order from Prime Minister Rabin to
By Norm Dixon DETROIT — Walking along Michigan Avenue is a depressing experience. Forget the glitz and glamour on TV: this is the real United States. One of the Motor City's main thoroughfares, Michigan Avenue is symbolic of the crisis of US
Police freed in abduction of Aboriginal children By Mick White BRISBANE — Magistrate Robert Quinlan on February 24 dismissed charges against six police who had previously admitted to abducting and terrorising three Aboriginal children.