By Liam Mitchell
The federal government's promised tax on leaded petrol (super) came into effect on February 1. Launched with a lot of rhetoric about reducing lead levels in the atmosphere, the tax raises the prices of leaded fuel by 2 cents per
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Turkey deports refugees
The Turkish government has been deporting refugees from Iran and Iraq back to those countries in recent weeks, according to the Council of Iranian Refugees and Migrants, in Sydney. In addition, says the council, Iranian
Chamarette slams blockade of medicine to Burma
WA Greens Senator Christabel Chamarette has spoken out against the Thai government's confiscation of medical supplies intended for ethnic minority groups inside Burma. The supplies were a private
By John Denlay
Language, according to Chilean economist Professor Manfred Max-Neef, is the mould within which human societies operate. Language is the means by which we describe our perceptions of the world, and our perceptions strongly
Greenpeace calls for greening of GATT
THE HAGUE — As representatives from the US and the European Union met here to begin a round table on environment and trade, Greenpeace on January 27 called on delegates to green the Global Agreement on
Prince rescued from Bosnian reality
By Muris C.
SYDNEY — On January 26, as a representative of a Bosnian organisation, I was invited to the lunch given in honour of Prince Charles in the Old Parliament Building, Parramatta Park.
By John Nebauer
BRISBANE — The Criminal Justice Commission Inquiry into the death of Aboriginal dancer Daniel Yock in police custody on November 7 ,resumed for final submissions on February 3.
In his submission counsel for the Yock
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — How was Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin able to force a sharp change of economic strategy on an obviously reluctant President Yeltsin?
The basic explanation is that the strategies of economic
By Craig Cormick
In October 1992, William the wombat, who had been raised in captivity since his youth, was released into the bush of Victoria. He was wearing a radio tracking collar, provided by the Finnish telecommunications company Nokia, and
By Frank Enright
and Max Watts
The Gibraltar-registered grain carrier Gopali, bound for Papua New Guinea with a load of Australian grain, was delayed from sailing from the Grain Handling Terminal in Wollongong on February 1 by trade
SYDNEY — The New South Wales Labor Council decided on January 27 to ban maritime, dredging and transport work associated with a proposal to mine sand from the seabed offshore from Botany Bay, Cronulla and the Royal National Park. The proposal has
By Ndungi Wa Mungai
A strike by the teaching staff in all four public universities in Kenya has entered its third month. This is one of the most successful and most organised strikes in the country for years.
The strike by 3700 academic
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