By Dr Kamala Emanuel
Doctors in the NSW public hospital system are preparing to take industrial action over changes to Medicare announced in the federal budget. The changes would deny Medicare provider numbers to about a third of new doctors each
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Peter Montague
Researchers studying clear lakes in Canada have found that climate warming, acid rain and increased ultraviolet sunlight (from depletion of the stratospheric ozone layer) all interact to allow more ultraviolet light to penetrate
Loves the jobless
"The freedom to establish trade unions ... has no meaning if there are many unemployed in society." — The Prime Menzies, John Howard, either giving advice to or learning from his Indonesian host, the dictator Suharto.
Liberty Against the Law: Some Seventeenth Century ControversiesBy Christopher HillAllen Lane, 1996. 354 pp., $50 (hb)Reviewed by Phil Shannon The 17th century in England boasts its famous names. Shakespeare was still writing in the early decades,
Towards US-style education
By Marina Cameron
If Howard's proposed HECS increases are passed, most Australian students will be facing fees higher than those charged at state universities in the United States. A four-year course in the US costs
By Steven Katsineris
Ariel Sharon has re-entered the government of Israel. Sharon is minister of national infrastructure, which includes energy, land management, railways, roads, mines, water and settlement roads in what Israel calls the
Radio rehabilitation
"Radio stations could be meaningful forces for rehabilitative change in the hearts, souls, minds and spirits of prisoners. These are perilous times ... and America needs a good deal more than music and commentary on her
This weekend hundreds of Green Left supporters will be wining and dining for the future of the progressive press in Australia.
Three Green Left Weekly annual dinners will be held on Saturday, September 28, to raise funds to keep the best
'Shame, Howard, shame'
By Caroline Tapp and Sally Mitchell
DARWIN — On September 13 more than 500 Aboriginal people marched for NAIDOC (National Aboriginal and Islander Day Observance Committee) Week shouting "Shame, Howard, shame". They were
By Cameron Lucadou-Wells and Sarah Stephen
HOBART — On September 18 students claimed victory over Vice- Chancellor Don McNichol's plans to change the University of Tasmania's exam timetable. Students learned only hours beforehand of a meeting to
y Marina Cameron
A centerpiece of the federal government's youth unemployment strategy announced in the federal budget is a new labour market program called Green Corps, in which young people carry out environmental conservation and restoration
Voluntary euthanasia, like voluntary abortion, is supported by a majority of Australians. Euthanasia may even be better supported, as a recent Bulletin Morgan poll indicated. In the September 7 poll, 76% of the of the 611 respondents surveyed said a
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