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  • Loose cannons

    Opportunity "A great opportunity to get everyone to buy the same thing twice." — The head of a graphic design consultancy on why the logo for the Sydney 2000 Olympics is being redesigned. Radical idea "The whole idea that public education

  • Tasmanian Greens to allow austerity budget

    On August 6, Tasmania's Liberal premier, Tony Rundle, warned that the August 15 state budget is not negotiable. Any attempts to change it, he said, would result in a new election. The next day, the Tasmanian Greens

  • Something different

    If you are one of the new readers who picked up this newspaper at the August 19 day of action against the Coalition government's attacks on our rights and living standards, then welcome to Green Left Weekly. This is a special anti-budget issue of

  • Protest commemorates 8-8-88

    CANBERRA — A rally on August 8 outside the Burmese embassy commemorated the eighth anniversary of the popular democratic uprising in which thousands were killed by the Burmese military. Three hundred

    Protest commemorates 8-8-88

  • Mass rallies against IR bill

    On July 31, hundreds of thousands of workers in Victoria and Newcastle took industrial action to protest against the Howard government's proposed industrial relations legislation. In Newcastle, 2000 unionists and

  • ACF submits plan for 'environmentally friendly' budget

    ACF submits plan for 'environmentally friendly' budgetFor the first time since they were elected to federal parliament, the WA Greens did not make a federal budget submission this year. Like the Australian Greens, the WA Greens

  • ACT youth strategy no solution

    ACT youth strategy no solutionCANBERRA — A July 24 forum organised by the Ministerial Youth Advisory Council to discuss a draft ACT Youth Strategy was attended by the Australian Youth Policy Action Coalition, the youth

  • Austudy post-budget: lean and mean

    Students and parents are worried that the federal budget will slash and further restrict student living allowances in 1997. The worst case scenario is the complete replacement of Austudy with a loans scheme similar to the Austudy

  • Campaign to save the ABC grows

    PERTH — Following the Howard government's announcement of funding cuts to the national broadcaster, ABC staff from the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance, the Community and Public Sector Union and supporters organised a

  • ANU students censure association president

    ANU students censure association presidentCANBERRA — A special general meeting of 80 students at the Australian National University on August 1 voted unanimously that the Students' Association should

  • Action against mobile phone tower

    Action against mobile phone towerHOBART — An action committee has formed to oppose the construction of a Telstra mobile phone tower next to Lenah Valley Primary School. Scientific research suggests that exposure for long

  • Pickets for democracy in Indonesia

    Australian activists held pickets on August 2 to protest against the Indonesian government's eviction of supporters of Megawati Sukarnoputri from the headquarters of her party, the PDI, and to condemn the government's crackdown on pro-democracy