BY TILLY ELDERFIELD
SYDNEY — Police in New South Wales are to be given wide powers to arrest people seen entering or leaving suspected "drug houses" and those suspected of acting as lookouts. Officers will also be able to seize properties and
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BY JIM GREEN
A federal senate committee has slammed plans for a new nuclear research reactor in the southern Sydney suburb of Lucas Heights.
The committee's majority report, released on May 23, is is a joint production of the Labor Party and the
BY JOHN GAUCI
SYDNEY — "East Timorese must ask themselves, why are we still divided? We can't go on holding other countries to blame", the new country's foreign minister Jose Ramos Horta told a public lecture at the University of New South Wales
BY DICK NICHOLS
Through the first telephone hook-up of its National Liaison Committee since its founding in March, the Socialist Alliance last week decided to have its founding conference in Melbourne on the weekend of August 4-5. The conference
SAN FRANCISCO — Consider the irony of two events that occurred a couple days apart last month. On May 23, the first Chinese American ever to be elected to the US Congress was denied entry to the Department of Energy offices in Washington, DC. The
BY JEREMY SMITH
The Australian Vice-Chancellors Committee has released a new survey
of post-secondary education demonstrating the effects of funding cuts on
teaching. Overall the staff to student ratio for the industry has increased
by 3%
The US Central Intelligence Agency worked in tandem with Pakistan in the 1980s to create the "monster" that is today Afghanistan's ruling Taliban, Selig Harrison from the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars said at a conference in London
BY SARAH STEPHEN
Public anger is mounting at the federal government's treatment of
asylum seekers, following a May 26 raid on the Port Hedland detention centre
and the arrest of 22 refugees singled out from a May 11 riot at the
BY BRONWEN BEECHEY
The South Australian Liberal government believed that it was on a winner when it privatised the state's electricity supply. However, it now looks like the move will be a major factor in the government's defeat at the next state
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BY JENNY LONG
SYDNEY NSW treasurer Michael Egan delivered the state
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Ruddock 'greeted'
NEWCASTLE — Federal immigration minister Phillip Ruddock attended a citizenship ceremony here on May 28. With only two hours notice, 20 protesters outside greeted the "Minister for Racism" outside the Town Hall. The
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