Honeymoon mine assessment begins
BY JIM GREEN
Canadian company Southern Cross Resources has released its environment
impact statement for the proposed Honeymoon uranium mine in north-east
South Australia.
The operation involves
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By Sibylle Kaczorek
DARWIN â On June 2, artist Dadang Christanto's exhibition titled
Reconciliation was opened with a powerful performance and installation.
Christanto, who was born in Indonesia in the late 1950s, uses simple
Student union refuses affiliation to political clubs
BY RUTH RATCLIFFE
CANBERRA â Citing its policy of refusing to affiliate any club deemed
political, the University of Canberra Union n(UCU) has rejected an application
for
Abandoned Kakadu mines are still radioactive
BY BRIAN TUPP
A memo from the Office of the Supervising Scientist, leaked to environmentalists
on June 6, has confirmed that abandoned South Alligator uranium mines are
posing a radiation
Fikile Majola, general secretary of the National Education, Health and
Allied Workers Union (NEHAWU), on June 7 called on university workers and
students around the world to offer urgent solidarity to the workers of
the University of the
D-Day for Dairy farmers
BY SUE BOLAND
July 1 is D-day for dairy farmers around Australia â not only is
that the start-date for the GST but it's also the date scheduled for the
final deregulation of the dairy industry.
Overnight,
Caught greed, bowled Satan
In a moment of stupidity and weakness I allowed Satan and the world to
dictate terms to me. â Hansie Cronje, sacked as South African cricket
captain after admitting to taking money from a bookmaker.
Making a difference?
On June 8, Australian Democrat Senator Natasha Stott Despoja described
her experiences of being a woman politician. She was addressing the launch
of the New York-based Women's Environment and Development
Green Left Weekly and the GST
With the introduction of the GST on July 1, we will be forced to increase
the price of Green Left Weekly. This will be the first price increase
for GLW since August 1995.
Through the GST, the government
It was worth it
A friend wrote recently, informing me of the pain his grand-daughter
is experiencing. She is bi-racial and lives in a neighbourhood in England
where only a few children look like her.
Children taunt her about
SEOUL — The May 31 to June 4 general strike by South Korean workers has deepened differences between the reformist Democratic Labour Party (DLP) and militants seeking to build a counter-offensive against President Kim Dae Jung's neo-liberal
BY JONATHAN SINGER
Establishment newspaper headlines still proclaim Australia's powerhouse
economy, but have workers really benefited from all the increased wealth
of the past decade?
Measured by growth in gross domestic product (GDP),
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