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  • Victorian family planning clinics threatened

    MELBOURNE — Women are fighting back against the Kennett government's decision, announced on March 5, that the state's 40 family planning clinics are to be closed. Health minister Marie Tehan stated that the clinics were

  • First private jail in NSW opens

    First private jail in NSW opensNSW's first privately run jail was opened at Junee on March 19. The curious could pay $100 per head for two days of opening "celebrations" that included a jail meal, a ball, a night in a cell

  • Young people take aim at environmental emergency

    "I have been a big fan of EYA since its beginning. Young people have enormous potential to influence the world ... You speak the truth from the most powerful position — it's your future at stake. I hope you will participate in

  • Melbourne trams called a 'luxury'

    Melbourne trams called a 'luxury'MELBOURNE — Comments by the most senior bureaucrat in the Public Transport Corporation (PTC) have outraged public transport groups and users. Alan Reiher, acting secretary of the

  • Keating reaffirms handouts for business

    In a frank essay for the March 22 Time magazine, retiring industry minister Senator John Button summed up the federal election result: Labor was seen to have "stuffed it", but "in the end, a skeptical electorate decided that

  • Mining stirs protests in WA

    Mining stirs protests in WAPERTH—Dee Margetts, expected to be elected as a Greens (WA) senator, told Green Left Weekly that the way has been opened for exploration and mining on all of WA's national parks by the

  • Stan Woodbury, 1924-1993

    WOLLONGONG — To the strains of the "Internationale", hundreds of friends and comrades gathered on March 26 to farewell and celebrate the life of Stan Woodbury, who had died peacefully at Port Kembla Hospital two days earlier

  • Loose cannons

    Not necessarily in that order "He [Russian President Boris Yeltsin] has shown a great deal of courage in sticking up for democracy and civil liberties and market reforms, and I'm going to support that." — US President Bill Clinton.

  • ANU evicts residents from historic home

    ANU evicts residents from historic homeStudents living at Old Lennox House, which has been low cost accommodation on the Australian National University campus for over 30 years, were given seven days, notice to vacate

  • Tasmanian teachers' bank accounts raided

    Tasmanian teachers' bank accounts raidedHOBART — Outrage has erupted among Tasmanian teachers over revelations by a Tasmanian building society senior executive that money has been deducted from teachers' personal

  • Loose cannons

    Blame God "This election means in a way that the whole Protestant ethic of hard work bringing its own reward is in doubt." — A "prominent Liberal" quoted in the March 23 Bulletin. Pass a law against it "Unfortunately, there's too much

  • Rainbow Warrior visits Hobart

    Rainbow Warrior visits HobartHOBART — The Rainbow Warrior visited Hobart from March 11. The launch of the Greenpeace "Cities and Coasts Campaign" took place on board on March 12. The campaign targets