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
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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
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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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When Paul Keating thanked the "true believers" in Labor for re-electing his government on March 13, he was met with a wild ovation from the loyal crowd at the Bankstown Leagues Club. But PETER BOYLE asks: what is the worth of his promise to
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In Melbourne this weekSt Kilda Film Festival Every year the St Kilda Film Festival presents an extraordinarily diverse program of new Australian short films and videos, made by students at film and TV schools and
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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