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By Will Firth BERLIN — This city is one of seven in the running to host the 27th Olympic Games. In the last several years Berlin's Senat (local government) and a number of corporations have made major investments in support of the city's
Face to face with Fidel Castro Interview with Tomás Borge Ocean Press, 181pp. $19.95 Reviewed by Sean Malloy Why do so many people interview Fidel Castro? Beatriz Pagés, Gianni Min, Frei Betto, Tomás Borge, Maria
By Maurice Sibelle BRISBANE — Over ten thousand teachers rallied across Queensland on August 5 to protest the cutbacks to the education budget by the state government. The 4000-strong meeting at Brisbane's Festival Hall, plus some 50 other
By Pip Hinman On most supermarket shelves these days, tuna cans are marked as "dolphin safe". For the unsuspecting consumer, the purchase of this item is preferable to those that are unmarked, which consumers rightly suspect to be the product
By Norm Dixon Claiming that tough measures are required to impose "law and order" in Papua New Guinea, Prime Minister Paias Wingti recently announced controversial measures which will severely restrict previously accepted human and civil
Rallies commemorate Hiroshima Day By Pip Hinman Nearly 50 years after the atomic bomb was dropped on the Hiroshima and Nagasaki, peace activists in Brisbane, Hobart and Sydney rallied to remember those who died and to demand an end to the
300 XXXX brewery workers face the sack By Bill Mason BRISBANE — In a drastic rationalisation of its XXXX brewing operation, Castlemaine Perkins Ltd, owned by Lion Nathan, is pushing through a plan to retrench 300 workers. Despite
Paying for enterprise bargaining By Ray Fulcher MELBOURNE — A document circulated to DSS managers on July 19 advises them of the amount of salary dollars and ASL (Actual Staffing Level, i.e., jobs) they will be losing in order to pay
By Peter Boyle An historic meeting of about 500 Aboriginal organisations and communities from around Australia met in Eva Valley in the Northern Territory between August 3-5 to work out a united response to the Mabo case. It firmly rejected
By Max Lane The first meeting between representatives of the Bougainville Interim Government and the BRA with the North Solomons Peace Negotiating and Monitoring Committee (NSPNMC) concluded in Honiara on July 30. The committee includes
By Mike Karajis SYDNEY — "The worst round of violence between Israel and Lebanon-based guerillas in 11 years continued unabated despite a drive by the US for a cease-fire. The fighting has killed more than 122 people." This was how the
By Karen Lee Wald HAVANA — Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega renewed his calls for a sharp turn in Nicaraguan President Violeta Chamorro's economic policies and the establishment of a "government of national unity", in light of the recent