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  • EYA activities

    EYA activities The Environmental Youth Alliance's new office Sydney was launched on September 10. Indonesian environment activist Helmi Fauzi thanked EYA for the solidarity shown with the Third World, particularly EYA's efforts to protect

  • Greenpeace proposes energy reforms

    SYDNEY — There is a "policy vacuum" on energy issues in the NSW government and the state Electricity Commission, says Greenpeace. Conventional power stations produce over 50% of greenhouse gas emissions in NSW, and the

  • Talking union

    The six unions in metal manufacturing have launched a wage claim for pay rises totalling 6% over the next two years. Stronger union shops will also pursue enterprise deals. The claim will affect about 7000 companies. The rises would be in four

  • National estate forests threatened by APPM

    National estate forests threatened by APPMHOBART — Large sections of the Tarkine forests, situated in the north-west of Tasmania, are threatened with logging by APPM. The company plans to set up a world-scale pulp mill in

  • Aid for Nicaragua

    Aid for NicaraguaNon-governmental organisations in Australia are joining the international relief effort for Nicaragua after tidal waves triggered by an earthquake devastated 340 kilometers of the country's Pacific coast on

  • Union targets Kennett's job-scheme hoax

    Victoria's main public service union, the SPSF Victoria (State Public Services Federation), has called Jeff Kennett's job creation scheme a hoax and says that the Liberal Party already knows the scheme is certain to fail.

  • Loose cannons

    Prepare for war "The defining challenge of the '90s is to win the economic competition. You will hear two visions of how to do this. Theirs is to look inward and protect what we already have. Ours is to look forward, to open new markets,

  • Goss slated on promises to women

    Goss slated on promises to womenBRISBANE — "Women and the Goss Government" was the theme of a September 2 forum here. Speakers were Susan Price, Democratic Socialist candidate in the state election, and Unna Liddy of

  • WA budget follows Keating's course

    A budget follows Keating's coursePERTH — Following in the footsteps of the federal budget, the Lawrence government brought down a slightly expansionary budget on September 1. With a state election expected in February,

  • Three-state Green Party launched

    SYDNEY — An organisation hoping to become a national green party, the Greens, was launched here on August 30. Representatives of Queensland, NSW and Tasmanian green political groups told the media they had agreed on a

  • Brewery struggle continues

    Brewery struggle continuesPERTH — The struggle to turn the old Swan Brewery site into parkland continues. One of the protesters arrested on the site on August 28, Uniting Church minister Helen Richmond, made a scathing