By Iggy Kim
HOBART — Slow economic growth, combined with substantial cuts in federal grants, means the Liberal minority government will be wielding a very sharp razor in the August 15 state budget. The cuts are likely to badly affect public
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By Pip Hinman
A report commissioned by the federal environment department in 1994 has revealed that taxpayers are subsidising industries that damage the environment to the tune of $5.7 billion a year. Subsidies to the Use of Natural Resources sheds
By Pauline Groves
NSW Attorney General Jeff Shaw has announced plans to introduce a bill to protect some confidential professional relationships, including those of counsellors, social workers and journalists. At present, professional conduct codes
By Reihana Mohideen
MANILA — The Ramos government has ordered the "neutralisation" of the "Lagman group", which it claims is out to sabotage the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, to be held here in November. Apparently a report
Revolutions in my LifeBy Baruch HirsonJohannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1995. 392 pp., approx. $25 + postage (fax 27 11 484 5971 for exact price)Reviewed by Norm Dixon. Baruch Hirson is best known outside South Africa for his influential
Indonesian activist on tour
By Jo Brown
Nico Warouw, the international officer of the People's Democratic Party (PRD) and a leader of Students in Solidarity with Democracy in Indonesia (SMID), urged support for the growing democracy struggle in
By Virginia Brown
PERTH — Following the Howard government's announcement of funding cuts to the national broadcaster, ABC staff from the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance, the Community and Public Sector Union and supporters organised a
By Max Lane
According to Green Left Weekly sources in Jakarta, at least 47 people were shot and knifed to death in Jakarta during the July 27 military attack on supporters of Megawati Sukarnoputri in the national headquarters of the Indonesian
Hysterical Women '96: A collection of 100 Australian feminist cartoonsA project of the Women's Electoral Lobby of WA and the Network of Women Students of AustraliaJuly 1996$15/$16.50 including postage from PO Box 8215, Perth Business Centre WA
The Viet Nam War, the American War: Images and Representation in Euro-American and Vietnamese Exile NarrativesBy Renny ChristopherUniversity of Massachusetts Press, 1995. 341 pp., $38 (pb)Reviewed by Phil Shannon The Vietnam War may have ended over
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