By Bruce Threlfo
Most of Sydney's water comes from Warragamba Dam. Built in the 1960s, it contains about 70% of the capacity of Sydney's reservoirs. The remaining capacity is in nine smaller dams.
Sydney's water consumption has trebled
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Major NSW environment groups have expressed serious concerns about the content of the environmental section of the official Sydney Olympic bid.
Sid Walker, executive officer of the Nature Conservation Council, the umbrella group for the NSW
Hunger strike
Reliable sources in East Timor have confirmed that Xanana is on a hunger strike in prison in Dili. The sources said Xanana is ill but has not been visited by anyone, including the Red Cross.
Jose Ramos-Horta, the special
By Frank Noakes
LONDON — There are any number of interesting conferences and meetings to tempt one here. "Unions '93", organised in late May by a dozen unions and the New Statesman & Society magazine with a line-up of unionists —
Enterprise 'agreement' a sham
By Dave Wright
HOBART — Tasmania's new industrial legislation was put to the test last week when the first of several new enterprise agreements came before the new enterprise commissioner.
Delta
By Adam Hanieh and Norm Dixon
ADELAIDE — Offices of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) have been raided and leading members arrested. Green Left Weekly spoke with Pumla Thoboti, an executive member of the Australasian branch of the Pan
Falling Down
Directed by Joel Schumacher
Written by Ebbe Roe Smith
Starring Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall, Barbara Hershey
Reviewed by Karen Fredericks
Somehow a story on the cover of Newsweek, entitled "White male paranoia: Are they
By Peter Boyle
MELBOURNE — If there is a buck to be made out of it, we'll flog it. That's the motto of the Kennett state government. It hopes to sell off Melbourne Water (which provides sewerage services and water supplies), the Gas and
Newtown on the Thames
A Man for All Seasons, by Robert Bolt, is now playing at the New Theatre in King St, Newtown (Sydney). Frank McNamara (pictured, right) is excellent as Sir Thomas More — upright, conscientious, emotional and eventually
By Bronwen Beechey
MELBOURNE — According to an old saying, a man's home is his castle. However, a recent study conducted in the Westernport region of Victoria shows that, for many women, sexual harassment makes home a place of insecurity
Homosexual law reform in Ireland
By Frank Noakes
In Europe's bastion of reactionary social policy, the newly constructed Fianna Fail-Labour Party government has decided to change Ireland's antiquated laws on homosexual acts, which will
Attitudes and prisoners
By Brandon Astor Jones
Convinced that the vast majority of men, women and children in America's prisons are without humanity, most Americans consider prisoners to be little more than animals. They cannot see the
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