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The 200th issue of Green Left Weekly will appear on August 28. It will be a special birthday celebration issue. Since Green Left first rolled off the presses in February 1991, it's been acclaimed in Australia and around the world as one of the
Burma 'still a prison' By Jon Lamb No official announcement was made by SLORC that Aung San Suu Kyi's detention had ended, but word travelled fast around Rangoon, and her residence was quickly surrounded by supporters. Suu Kyi held meetings

SYDNEY – Teachers and the NSW government seem set on a collision course after the NSW Teachers Federation's 77th annual conference voted to place bans on the introduction of new programs until the beginning of the 1997 school year. Bob Carr's Labor government responded by insisting that it had a mandate to carry through its education reform agenda.

By Juliet Fox Sixty-five per cent of Victoria's native vegetation has been cleared, and in 1990, the rate of destruction nationwide was over two rugby fields per minute. These are just a couple of the statistics given in two reports released in
By Julia Perkins MELBOURNE — The ninth conference of the National Organisation of Women Students in Australia was held here July 3-7. With around 600 participants, it was the largest NOWSA conference yet. The theme was "Women in revolt".
'A wasted six-year opportunity' By Jim McIlroy BRISBANE — "Whichever way the final result goes, the Goss Labor government has wasted a priceless six-year opportunity for major reform in Queensland", Democratic Socialist candidate for
By Jennifer Thompson MELBOURNE — The 24th national Resistance conference, held here July 7-10, attracted around 220 people for intensive discussions on the conference theme, "Struggle, solidarity, socialism". Discussion in plenaries and
By Renfrey Clarke MOSCOW — Throughout much of the second week of July, the streets of the Chechen capital, Grozny, were under the control of demonstrators chanting anti-Russian slogans and holding up portraits of separatist leaders. Russian
Terra Nullius "Oral tradition was established through different means, through passing on custodianship and clan structure, and this could easily be ignored by Europeans coming into the country who only recognised the written word", says Professor
Virtue "The office has many virtues. Its chief virtue is that it was planned by the previous government." — NSW Labor Premier Bob Carr on his new $28 million office. Job description "You're not a copper till you can work pissed." — NSW
By M.S. Somasundar The war against human deprivation has to be waged at many levels and in many arenas, one of which is food. What is done with new crop seeds has much to do with who controls the entire food system. Control over new crop
SA meeting discusses anti-fees campaign ADELAIDE — Politics in the Pub on June 28, on the theme of "Winning the Fight for Free Public Education", was organised by the South Australian Education Network (SAEN) as part of the national No Fees