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  • Adelaide EYA meets

    Adelaide EYA meetsADELAIDE — Forty young people attended the Environmental Youth Alliance state meeting on Saturday, March 27. They discussed campaigns to take up in the next few months and the approaching EYA

  • BHP steelworkers in national strike

    NEWCASTLE — Workers took strike action at nearly all of the Broken Hill Proprietary Company's steel manufacturing or processing centres last week. The unions' log of claims was endorsed by the membership in December. The

  • Meeting focuses on women in prison

    MELBOURNE — About 150 people attended a memorial on March 26 at the Melbourne Town Hall for women who have died in custody or shortly after being released from custody. Women in Fairlea and Barwon prisons also held their

  • Rainforest timber unwelcome

    Rainforest timber unwelcome SYDNEY — Sydney Rainforest Action Group, Greenpeace and Paddlers for Peace held the year's first rainforest timber ship protest on April 1. The Eastern Ruby, carrying tropical timber from Malaysia, was met

  • Occupied school to resist closure

    Occupied school to resist closureMELBOURNE — The parents, students and community activists who are occupying and operating Richmond Secondary College (one of 52 schools official closed by the Kennett government last

  • Kelly attacks environment groups

    In her first interview after the elections, environment minister Ros Kelly signalled that the Keating government would take a tough stance towards environmental groups. She told the March 31 Melbourne Age that the government's

  • ALP challenges SPSF left leadership

    ALP challenges SPSF left leadershipMELBOURNE — The State Public Service Federation (Victoria) elections in May-June promise to be a showdown between the current left leadership and several ALP-aligned tickets.

  • Abortion study locates problems

    ADELAIDE — A study of the effects of abortion on women in Australia indicates that the real trauma associated with the experience is suffered in trying to obtain information and access to abortion services, rather than as

  • 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