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
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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
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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.
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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
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Business plans 'free market' high schoolsThe Business Council of Australia (BCA) and the National Industry Education Forum (NIEF), of which the BCA is a founding member, are proposing to extend economic "rationalism" into
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Report confirms warming Alarming new evidence that the world is warming came from the Netherlands on March 19. According to a report in the main Dutch newspaper, de Volkskrant, the Royal Dutch Meteorological Service announced at a press
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NEFA calls on West to resign SYDNEY — The North East Forest Alliance has call for the resignation of Garry West, state minister for Conservation and Land Management, in the light of two recent government reports seriously criticising the
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SYDNEY — The Malaysian Tourist Bureau closed up shop for the day on March 24 rather than face a protest organised by the Sydney Rainforest Action Group. The protest highlighted the continuing destruction of the forest home of the Penan people in
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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
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Sean Kenan acquitted Aidex protester Sean Kenan was acquitted of charges of assaulting police by the ACT Supreme Court on March 19, following failure by the prosecution to prove at least one key element of the alleged offence. Kenan was
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Qld police slammed on Operation TridentBRISBANE — The controversial Operation Trident car-stealing scam was poorly conceived, incompetently executed and tainted from beginning to end, according to the Carter report
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Council attacks free speech rallyBRISBANE — Brisbane City Council officers, with help from the Queensland Police, confiscated an information stall from free speech protesters in the Queen Street Mall on March 19.