By Dave Andrews
ROSEBERY — A massive, community-based battle has erupted over the threatened closure of the new hospital here on Tasmania's west coast. The state Department of Community and Health Services (DC&HS) announced on May 13 that it
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By Kim Linden
MELBOURNE — A "wringout" for Fairlea Women's Prison at Fairfield on May 19 was a resounding demonstration of solidarity with the women imprisoned there and against the scheduled replacement of Fairlea by a private prison. The
My friend
"The vain eruditions of adulthood very often cast the light of scholarship so brightly that learning becomes little more than an academic spell ... that can only be broken by the innocent magic of a child's stated observations and
Defence of democracy
"In extreme situations some rules have to be broken." — Georgy Kuznetsov, dean of the television and radio department of Moscow State University's journalism faculty, justifying media distortion and if necessary
By Eva Cheng
Dozens of people in China have been arrested, some receiving long jail sentences, under laws which use a sweeping definition of "state secrets" as an excuse to stifle public scrutiny, according to the Amnesty International. Journalist
One in 10: Women Living with Breast CancerBy Diana WardAllen & Unwin, 1996. 274 pp., $16.95Reviewed by Linda Kaucher One in 10 women will develop breast cancer at some stage, hence the title of Di Ward's book.
I met Di Ward at the anarchist
If greed is so good, why can't I afford some?
I was studying the Business Review Weekly this week to see if I got a mention: Ramray, Rathbone, Reid, Richter, Roberts, Roche, Roth, Rydge — but no Riley in the journal's list of Australia's 200
By Natasha Simons
On May 14, representatives from Australia's 36 universities met with senior officials from the Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs (DEETYA) to discuss the biggest cuts to higher education funding in
ADELAIDE — Some 70 people attended the first Jason Porter memorial oration here on May 18. Jason Porter, an activist in Resistance, Community Aid Abroad and Campaign for an Independent East Timor, was killed while travelling through Indonesia in
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