Two legged eatingTwo legged eating
A number of people have asked me to offer a definitive adjudication on the vexed question of cannibalism. That, I am pleased to say, is a topic on which I may have something very exciting to impart.
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Greenpeace, founded in 1971 by anti-nuclear activists in Canada, is today the dominant environment organisation worldwide. What Greenpeace does and how it does it shapes, to a large extent, public consciousness about the major
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CANBERRA—A sign of the disaster unfolding in the Australian Public Service is the recent stampede of 4000 Commonwealth Employment Service (CES) workers — half the workforce — to apply for jobs in the Service Delivery Agency
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Protest targets Kleenex MELBOURNE — Residents from the Otway Ranges Environment Network and students from the Cross Campus Environment Network staged an anti-woodchipping protest on April 22 outside the Melbourne sales offices of Kimberly
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Looking out: Quashing a rumour"Humor's ear, in the listener, is very much like beauty's eye, in the beholder." — Irving Elmer Bell. If you have something important to do right now, you should not be reading
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What does ADI have to hide?The suitability of the St Marys Australian Defence Industries (ADI) site for housing development by Lend Lease has been called into question by ADI's refusal to provide information to the NSW
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Following the University of Sydney senate vote to introduce up-front fees for some undergraduate places, the Sydney Morning Herald on April 23 announced that 600 staff positions may be axed over the next two years. Savings
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BRISBANE — Andrew Norton's article "Fee students help all", which appeared in the April 14 Courier-Mail, is evidence of the Liberal government's vision for the future of education. Norton advocates the deregulation of the
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The things you'd never know if you didn't read the Sydney Morning Herald! For example, check your knowledge of current events by answering the following multiple choice question: Mal Colston is: (a) the biggest rorter in the
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Native title and the environment Considering that land degradation is one of the major problems facing Australia today and that and essential step towards remedying the problem is wresting from the pastoralists and agriculturalists their present
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The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union has welcomed a report which criticises the procedure for collecting statistics on mine safety. Review of Mining in NSW, released on April 9, makes a number of recommendations on how to improve mine
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ALP scuttles Brisbane student demoBRISBANE — On May 8 a national day of action has been called against the education funding cuts. The Queensland Education Action Network (QEAN) has been meeting over the
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By Dr Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem GOMA — I had the chance to meet Laurent Kabila in the official residence, a palatial place that used to belong to Mobutu (one of his many mansions across the country), right by Lake Kivu. The rotund leader of
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An honest and proud man devastated by his ordeal. This was how ACTU secretary Bill Kelty described former Coles Myer boss Brian Quinn found guilty of defrauding the company of several million dollars. Kelty joined with Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett
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After a few months of media-driven celebrity last year, Pauline Hanson, the independent member for Oxley, seemed to drop from the limelight. But now she's back on the front pages as she tours the country promoting her new party,
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NetworkingNetworking Corporate life can be stressful for a woman. Taking over half a dozen companies, closing a $2 million deal, retrenching a few thousand "unproductive" workers — all on top of having to think of the menu for the next
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Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Thursday, 10pm and Saturday, 7pm. Access News — Melbourne
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The ecological crisis is perhaps the strongest argument for socialism. Despite the business-as-usual attitude of the capitalist media, this is not just one more crisis: it is a looming catastrophe that threatens the survival of
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Last month a young Aboriginal man and former Long Bay inmate launched A Guide to Surviving Incarceration. The book relates to the feelings of many new Aboriginal inmates — "One of the first things you might think about is
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Norm Haub, working-class fighterBRISBANE — Many comrades and friends gathered at a service here on April 11 to say farewell to Norman Haub, who died two days earlier after a long illness. Norm was a battler all his life,
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Concert highlights plight of Timorese asylum seekersMELBOURNE — A free concert and rally in support of East Timorese asylum seekers attracted 5000 people to the Treasury Gardens on April 20. The Painters and Dockers,
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BRISBANE —It is almost certain that a referendum on whether the University of Queensland should affiliate to the National Union of Students (NUS) will be put to students during May. How activists should approach this referendum
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Guild blocks education campaign at UNSWSYDNEY — The education campaign on the University of NSW has run into a major obstacle: the student guild. Late last year a position paper, "Options 2000", released by the UNSW
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UTS council discusses occupationSYDNEY — The council of the University of Technology, Sydney, met on April 24 to decide who should pay the costs associated with the Easter occupation by students protesting against
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National stop-work meetings of Community and Public Sector Union members on April 23 decided on a week of two-hour rolling stoppages as a part of a campaign in defence of jobs and conditions proposed by the national management committee of the CPSU.
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Rally demands real jobsWOLLONGONG — A "No Work for the Dole" rally organised by Resistance and the Democratic Socialist Party was held at Wollongong Mall on April 19. More than 100 people came to the event, which was
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Meeting discusses political crisis in IndonesiaSYDNEY — "The Suharto regime is entering a phase of political crisis", began a lecture delivered by Max Lane to an audience of more than 100 people at Sydney University on
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August 19 activist acquittedCANBERRA — Martin Iltis was acquitted of assaulting police in the Magistrate's Court on April 24. The charge arose from the demonstrations at Parliament House on August 19. Police claimed Iltis
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Insensitive "One would have hoped that they could have found a good British company to run the agency. Some of our old boys will regard it as terribly insensitive." — An official of the Royal British Legion, on news that a German company has
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SYDNEY — Prime Minister John Howard (Australia's richest public housing tenant) will find himself the recipient of a symbolic demand for a $21,000 per week rent increase at noon on Sunday, May 11. The demand will be presented
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Union members sacked at NMITMELBOURNE
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Youth tent embassy set up in SydneySYDNEY — A youth tent embassy was set up at the Domain behind Parliament House here between April 20 and 26 to increase awareness among young people about the Street Safety Bill and
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PERTH — WA Premier Richard Court and labour minister Graham Kierath claim to take their jobs seriously. After a hard week at the office ramming the "third wave" anti-union legislation through the lower house without debate,
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Footwear workers win demandsMELBOURNE — Workers at the Michaelis Bayley footwear factory have ended an 18-day strike after reaching a settlement with management on April 24. The demands of the workers for a 10% pay
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Demand protection for Aboriginal siteSYDNEY — The National Aboriginal History and Heritage Council protested at Bob Carr's Heritage Week address on April 22 to draw attention to its demand that the "Day of Mourning"
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If you don't fight ... The failure of the ACTU's living wage claim for a $20 "safety net" rise and a general 8.75% increase in award wage rates indicates the weakened state of the trade union movement today. In rejecting the ACTU's claim on
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Diminishing forests Once, half of the earth's landmass was covered with forests. Today, this cover has been reduced to one-third. A map of the world's forest cover, produced by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre and World Wide Fund for
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30,000 march for strawberry workersWATSONVILLE, California — A massive march here on April 13 launched the largest union organising drive taking place in the United States today. Energy and hope were in the air.
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MOSCOW — Of the new breed of labour protests, one of the first to make the news took place on February 27 in the town of Salair, in Kemerovo province in Siberia. After going unpaid for some nine months, several hundred
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SUJATHA FERNANDES recently spent a year in India working with various women's groups and organisations. Following is an abridged version of her talk, sponsored by Green Left Weekly, to mark International Women's Day in Sydney. Last year cosmetic
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Turkey leads in persecution At least 45 journalists were detained in Turkey in March, according to the Journalists' Union of Turkey (TGS). "The number of journalists taken into custody was 45, those attacked and beaten numbered eight, 114
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Plea to save Japanese bay The Japanese government has just closed off one of Japan's largest inter-tidal wetlands for a major reclamation project. The following is from a plea for international assistance from the Japan Wetlands Action Network.
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US bans new investments in BurmaOn April 22, US President Bill Clinton approved an order banning new US investments in Burma because of increased repression by the State Law and Order Restoration Council regime. But the decree
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South Africa's trade union movement will hold mass rallies on May 12 in protest at the African National Congress-led government's failure to incorporate its "big issue" demands into the draft Basic Conditions of Employment Bill
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While sold to Australian tourists as a touch of Paris by the beach, Kanaky was seized by France only in 1853. In 1998 a referendum will be held, presenting voters with the choice of independence or continued French rule as the "French Overseas
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Sri Lankan left leaders still heldThree leaders of Sri Lanka's New Sama Samaja Party (NSSP) have been detained by police in connection with an arms cache police claim to have discovered in a building housing a health
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On April 22, a kangaroo court in Surabaya handed down a prison sentence of six years to Dita Sari, leader of the Indonesian Centre for Working Class Struggle. The prosecution had demanded nine years. Dita's co-defendants, Coen
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ANKE HINTJENS recently returned from a visit to Goma in rebel-held eastern Zaire. I last visited Goma in 1993. This time I felt the difference immediately. Before, we didn't dare move around. There were roadblocks everywhere, with soldiers demanding
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LONDON — On April 21, Londons four airports, five major railway stations and the A40 freeway into the city were closed after coded bomb threats were phoned in, apparently by the Irish Republican army (IRA). The bomb threats,
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Left on line Free Roisin McAliskey! — Roisin is imprisoned in Holloway Prison, London, without formal charges and without bail. She awaiting a decision by the German government to seek her extradition. She is pregnant and has been
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This article was written as a reply to a feature article by Tony Stephens in the April 10 Sydney Morning Herald. The Herald declined to publish it. Peter McGregor is one of the curators of Viet Nam Voices and a lecturer at the
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Polish poster exhibitionMELBOURNE — Polish posters are regarded as highly sophisticated works of art and are remarkable for their innovative design concepts, their spontaneity, simplicity and daring. From May 1 to June
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Travel on Persian carpet GabbehWith Shaghayeh Djodat, Hossein Moharami, Rogheih Moharami, Abbas SayahScreening at the Verona Cinema, Sydney Review by Derek Nagle The gabbeh of the title is a particular type of decorative Persian carpet. In
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Human ecology, human economyMark Diesendorf and Clive Hamilton (eds)Allen & Unwin, 1997. 378 pp., $35 Review by Allen Myers This book is primarily intended as "a text for undergraduate and graduate students in environmental studies, human and
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Carla's SongDirected by Ken LoachWritten by Paul LavertyWith Robert Carlyle, Oyanka Cabezas, Scott GlennOpens May 1 Review by Neville Spencer Director Ken Loach has a reputation for consistently using his craft to promote struggles for
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Blackness Blackness there is only Blackness.I can see, hear, feel, sense nothing,there is nothing to sense. It changes to grey.Now there are shapes, signs of others,but I can't see them — senses are so dulled. Now if I try I can see light
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Cooking for BridesCooking for BridesAvailable from Folkways, Sydney; Impact, Canberra; Basement Discs and Blue Moon Records, Melbourne; The Muses, Adelaide; 78 Records, Perth; or send $25 c/- 60 Ijong St, Braddon ACT 2612. (06) 249 8842 for
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Chocolate Supa HighwaySpearhead Capitol Records Review by Sujatha Fernandes Chocolate Supa Highway may not live up to the funkiness of Spearhead's last album Home, and it may lack the confrontational political appeal of the Disposable Heroes of