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Leading us down the garden pathADELAIDE — South Australia's national parks and wildlife reserves are heading for a crisis, battling feral animals, weeds and a lack of funds from the Labor government. Although land

"There is a huge contradiction between the action being taken by the government and the contents of Wanted: Our Future. The Carmichael report, Keating's youth jobs schemes and the income levels set by the government fly in the

SYDNEY — A Federal Airports Corporation discussion paper proposing to demolish the suburb of Sydenham because it will be severely affected by noise from the new Sydney airport third runway, "is just another case of jumping

"A major new effort to develop jobs which protect the environment", was how the January 18 joint statement by the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the Australian Conservation Foundation described their joint Green Jobs

Call for Hilton investigation "We believe it is necessary to launch a campaign on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the Sydney Hilton bombing. On February 13, 1978, three innocent people were horribly murdered and others were mutilated

Determined campaign to defend Victorian schoolsMELBOURNE — Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett is continuing to implement his vision of education — against the wishes of teachers, students and parents. Education

EYA launches high school tourYoung environmentalists are gearing up to start the Environmental Youth Alliance's new high school tour for 1993. EYA aims to reach up to 200 high schools around the country, equipped with the

PERTH — It is not just a matter of getting people into parliament: "We need to change the way people think and view and operate within the world", Stewart Jackson, secretary of the WA Greens, told Green Left Weekly. The

Perth forum discusses left alternativePERTH — More than 100 people attended a special Politics in the Pub here on January 22 to discuss prospects for a left alternative. It was chaired by Ian Alexander, the retiring

Summer forest campaignHOBART — The slogan "Yes to EIS" (environmental impact statement) was chalked on every corner pavement in Hobart on January 18, as the Wilderness Society launched its "long hot summer" campaign

Green Left fund off to a great startSYDNEY — The Green Left Weekly 1993 fund drive got off to a marvellous start at the Democratic Socialist Party and Resistance Activist-Education conference, when $49,000 was

Credibility problems Western Australian coalition industrial relations spokesperson Graham Kierath, denying that his industrial relations reforms would make anybody worse off or lose their jobs, admitted that "Kennett does cause us