Healing the planet: Strategies for resolving the environmental crisis By Paul and Anne Ehrlich. New York: Addison-Wesley, 1991. $US29.95 Reviewed by Craig Brittain Paul Ehrlich's The Population Bomb, a best-seller first published in 1968, got
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By Sean Malloy SYDNEY — "It typifies the view that is held by NSW police, as far as Aboriginal people are concerned. We are all David Gundys, and it is just a matter of time before we are all shot", said Lyall Munroe Jr, commenting on the
By Carol Sherman The already tarnished image of the Australian government is about to be dealt another blow if the Piparwar coal mine in the Indian state of Bihar gets final clearance and becomes fully operational. This project, the largest
By Irina Glushchenko MOSCOW — The period since "democratic" politicians took control of the Moscow city government has been a Saturnalia of official criminality and embezzlement to rival anything in Weimar Germany or ancient Rome.
This week I thought I'd kick off with a very funny joke from a very funny man, that hysterically witty US Senator Ernie Hole-in-the-head. He told a crowd of cheering workers that they could respond to Japanese claims that US workers are lazy by
By Michael Schembri Discrimination in insurance "It appears that the experiment in industry self-regulation has failed as insurance companies continue to discriminate against homosexual and bisexual men, contrary to the spirit of their own
70% worse off under GST By Peter Boyle Around 70% of waged and salaried households and 60% of self-employed and farm households would be worse off under the Liberal Party's "Fightback!" package, according to federal Treasury and Finance
Facts and figures on industrial relations Industrial Relations at Work: The Australian Workplace Industrial Relations Survey Published by the Commonwealth Department of Industrial Relations Australian Government Publishing Service, 1991. 366
By Jack Colhoun WASHINGTON — Representative Robert Torricelli sounded a clarion call for an escalated confrontation between the United States and Cuba when he introduced his Cuba Democracy Act Feb. 5. Flanked by Jorge Mas Canosa, head of
Aboriginal Prisoners Prison census June 30, 1987 — June 30, 1991 State 1987 1991 Increase NSW 369 664 295 Vic 52 91 39 WA 503 624 121 SA 147 150 3 Qld 354 346 -12 NT 334 328 -3 Tas 7 10 3 Aust 1766 2213
Aboriginal singer refused service at Melbourne bar By Rjurik Davidson MELBOURNE — Staff at the Catani Bar in St Kilda on the night of March 4 refused entry to the lead singer of the Aboriginal band Yothu Yindi. Mandawuy Yunupingu said that
By Liam Mitchell ADELAIDE — "Employment growth is unlikely until the end of 1992 and into 1993", SA United Trades and Labor Council (UTLC) assistant secretary Chris White told a crowd of 200 at the Social Justice and Economy conference here
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