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
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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
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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.
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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
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Suggestions wanted "It was a time when I thought, I've done everything, the $10 million deal, the $100 million deal and the billion-dollar deal, and you ask, where do you go from there?" — Corporate raider Sir Ron Brierley, describing a
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MELBOURNE — On the eve of the Kennett government's second mini-budget, due on April 6, the Victorian Council of Social Service has called on the government to target the rich rather than the public sector and capital works.
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Goss to end royal trappings in QldBRISBANE — Queensland Premier Wayne Goss has entered the republican debate with plans to remove the oath of allegiance to the queen in state jurisdictions, and to remove references to the
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ADELAIDE — Ironically, the auditor general's report on the downfall of the State Bank was released on April Fool's Day. It offered little to the people of South Australia, who have been waiting for over two years for some
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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