Health workers take action for wage rises, jobs
By Kim Linden
MELBOURNE — The Health Services Union of Australia (HSUA) imposed work bans on July 27 at several hospitals in Victoria for a 14% wage claim, job security and an
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@f24 = Anger at ship dumping
By Ben Courtice
HOBART — The wreck of the BHP ship Iron Baron on July 10, and the resultant slick of 300 tonnes of fuel oil off the north coast of Tasmania, is one the state's worst environmental
By Zohl de Ishtar
"We have come to protect you and bring you civilisation and peace." These are the words the French used in 1843 when 500 armed troops, under cover of four warships, marched through Tahiti, arrested Queen Pomare IV (queen
Blame the system
By Kath Gelber
@column = Susan Smith, the woman who, in desperation, killed her two children and then blamed their disappearances on a black man who hijacked her car, has become the latest victim in that great
Japanese government punished for air pollution
By Eva Cheng
In a landmark court ruling on July 5, the Japanese government and its Hanshin Expressway Public Corporation were ordered to pay 65 million yen to 18 victims — some of
@column = At the end of June, Green Left Weekly sent a letter to each of our subscribers. In the letter, we pointed out that the end of the financial year was approaching, and that we were behind schedule on our fundraising. We needed to draw on the
Local council prosecuted
@9point = ADELAIDE — On July 24, the Kingscote district council was found guilty of contravening section 26 of the Native Vegetation Act as a result of clearing roadside vegetation on Kangaroo Island between
@lhead = Law and Aborigines
@letter = Let us find a way to incorporate Aboriginal customary law into our justice system.
@letter = There have been many examples of ethnic or religious minorities having a large degree of autonomy
By Alice Davis
ADELAIDE — The royal commission into the Hindmarsh Island bridge fiasco was jolted on July 27 by the one of the key governmental witnesses' withdrawal of his statements. Doug Milera's earlier claims that Aboriginal women's
Trading Hazards: the export of toxic waste to the Third World
By Karen Medica
Research and Policy Unit, World Vision Australia, 1995
Reviewed by Lisa Macdonald
Trading Hazards is the second monograph in an "Issues in Global
@column = Based on highly reliable international contacts, leaked documents and horoscopes from several TV magazines, Nostradamus' Media Watch presents a highly accurate forecast of political events across the globe.
@column = UN redefines
By Eva Cheng
In 1963, when the United States, the Soviet Union and Britain announced their plans to stop atmospheric nuclear tests, the French governor of Tahiti claimed, "Not a single particle of radioactive fallout [from France's pending
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