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Doctors to stop work Doctors will hold stop-work meetings across NSW on the February 11 to discuss a motion for an ongoing campaign against the government's restriction of Medicare provider numbers. The main proposal to be considered will be an
@columhead = No-one told us before "Police often have very difficult decisions to make in the course of their work, and a code which gives them practicable and sensible guidelines will be very helpful." — Phil Tunchon, president of the NSW Police
Werribee residents oppose toxic dump By Ian Haywood MELBOURNE — A strong community campaign has arisen in Werribee, a town just west of Melbourne, in response to a planned toxic dump on the town's outskirts. The site is an exhausted quarry
By Eva Cheng After nearly four weeks of general strikes which involved around 260,000 South Korean workers in daily walk-outs, strike leaders announced on January 18 that the walk-outs would be replaced by strikes on Wednesdays and rallies on
The Woman I'll Be puts her hair up with a comb of absolute zero, fastens it with a pack of hounds until it forms a straight peak, utters words like a species of pepper, and has a blemish on her tongue, is certain she is not asleep,
Fraser by-election results By Lara Pullin CANBERRA — Disillusionment with traditional parties was notable in the outcome of the Fraser by-election on February 1. The ALP retained the seat vacated by Labor's John Langmore (who left to take up a
Chemical blamed in dolphin deaths Researchers have found butyltin compounds, including tributyltin (TBT), in the liver, kidney and muscle of bottlenose dolphins that were stranded along the south-east US Atlantic and Gulf coasts between 1989 and
Horta speaks to public meetings By Jon Lamb and Sean Moysey ADELAIDE — East Timorese Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jose Ramos Horta addressed more than 500 people at a public meeting here on February 7. Ramos Horta was greeted with a standing
Political instability in Indonesia: A record of riots Compiled by James Balowski 1995 January 1 — After an East Timorese was killed by a migrant, thousands of East Timorese in Bacau set fire to markets destroying at least 90 shops and leaving
UWS Macarthur students fight to save SRC By Jo Brown SYDNEY — Students at the University of Western Sydney MacArthur campus are taking the fight to save their Student Representative Council to the courts after the SRC was abolished by the UWS

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