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  • Boycott Mitsubishi campaign launched

    Boycott Mitsubishi campaign launched The Rainforest Information Centre and the Environmental Youth Alliance launched the Australian Boycott Mitsubishi campaign on September 24. The "Mitsubishi Challenge" National Basketball League will be

  • Phhew!

    Phhew! "Queen: I will accept republic." — Headline in Sydney Morning Herald after King Paul's meeting with Queen Liz. Name two, please "I did build many, many things, and people forget to mention them." — Bankrupt entrepreneur Alan Bond,

  • Commission proposes end of awards

    A report commissioned by treasurer John Dawkins has called on the Federal Government to abolish the award system and to end trade union monopoly rights in enterprise bargaining. Written by the Industry Commission (the federal

  • BRISBANE

    BRISBANE — Aksi and other concerned groups protested on September 24 against the Warana festival's theme of "Celebrate Indonesia". The protest highlighted the Suharto regime's suppression of democratic rights and independence struggles in East

  • WA budget continues shift of resources

    WA budget continues shift of resourcesPERTH — Business lobby groups and the West Australian have howled about a loss of "reforming zeal" on the part of the Court Liberal government because its September

  • Omega a 'hidden health risk'

    Staff at the secret US Omega facility in East Gippsland are worried about job security after a sudden Australian government decision to close the station by February unless alternate funding can be found. Omega started

  • Surveys find profits booming

    Surveys find profits boomingCorporate profits have shot up dramatically — almost returning to their peak before the recession. The Australian Financial Review's survey of 500 large companies, released on September 21,

  • Chamarette meets with Aborigines on Mabo

    WA Greens Senator CHRISTABEL CHAMARETTE recently visited Aboriginal communities in the state's north to consult with them on land rights and the government's Mabo legislation. She was interviewed in Perth for Green Left Weekly by MICHELLE HOVANE.

  • Asia-Pacific workers' conference

    Asia-Pacific workers' conferenceMELBOURNE — Twenty-two leading trade unionists and labour researchers from the Asia-Pacific region will participate in the "Workers Change the World" conference here from September 29 to

  • Quarantine sackings despite anthrax outbreak

    Quarantine sackings despite anthrax outbreakCANBERRA — Federal budget plans to slash quarantine staff are to go ahead despite the outbreak of anthrax in Queensland. The cuts mean that some 30% of the Australian Quarantine

  • Garbos oppose redundancy deal

    Garbos oppose redundancy dealBRISBANE — Three hundred garbos rallied at King George Square on September 22 to protest against a redundancy deal being offered by the Brisbane City Council. Eighty out of three hundred

  • Gippsland wilderness endangered

    One of Australia's leading jazz musicians, Vince Jones, has condemned the logging of East Gippsland's old growth forests. What the so-called selective logging really amounts to, he told Green Left Weekly, is mass destruction. And