BRISBANE — "Australia and its citizens ... have an opportunity before them to do something about the dispossession and alienation of Aboriginal people. If Australia doesn't at this particular time pick it up, then this
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Competent managers "[NSW] Treasury wanted to conduct an analysis of the risks of holding the Olympics, but Cabinet decided not to proceed with this until after Sydney won the Games." — Sydney Morning Herald, October 15. Now they tell us
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HOBART — More than 300 people rallied on October 13 and marched to the office of local MP Duncan Kerr (for Denison) to protest against the Labor government's education policy and call for free
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Adelaide universities go outADELAIDE — Academics from all three South Australian universities joined the national strike on October 18. The president of the Adelaide University Staff Association, Rod Crowther, said
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Chilean President Patricio Aylwin was met by a vigorous protest by members of the Chilean exile community and their supporters on his October 5 visit to Sydney Town Hall. The main demand of the demonstrators was "No to impunity", referring to moves
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KINGSCOTE, S.A. — The nationally endangered dwarf bush, Kangaroo Island phebalium, is under threat from unnecessary clearance of roadside vegetation by the Kingscote Council, according to the Nature Conservation Society of South Australia and the
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Cuba calls for support SYDNEY — The Cuban consul general in Australia, Marcelino Fajardo, has appealed to friends of Cuba to express their solidarity in the coming weeks. The United States government is again to raise the spurious question of
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ANC rep's home attackedADELAIDE — In what was obviously a premeditated attack, windows in the house of Algernon Van der Hoeven, African National Congress representative in Adelaide, were smashed with bricks in the early
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Kennett to close more schoolsMELBOURNE — At least another 159 state schools are to be closed in Victoria according to an announcement by the Kennett government on October 15. Teachers' unions warn that the real number to
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HOBART — The Pasminco-EZ zinc plant was forced to close down on October 11 when the Federation of Industrial Manufacturing and Engineering Employees, the plant's largest union, voted to joint the strike by the AMEU, the EPU
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Members of the National Tertiary Education Industry Union (NTEU) held a 24-hour strike on October 14 which closed university campuses around the country. The strike was the first action in an industrial campaign to protect
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Aboriginal march in AdelaideADELAIDE — One hundred and fifty people marched from Parliament House to the Tandanya Aboriginal Cultural Institute on October 13 to show their opposition to the proposal to scrap the Racial