Exports poison workers
In a report released last week, Greenpeace revealed that waste car batteries from Australia, the US and Britain exported to Third World countries are reprocessed in deplorable conditions.
Visiting lead acid battery
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By Maureen Baker
PERTH — "Kids swept from streets" was the headline on a recent edition of a community newspaper. Operation Sweep was launched by police on January 2 and has operated from 8pm to 4am on Friday and Saturday nights for seven of
SA bill to overhaul IR
By Melanie Sjoberg
ADELAIDE — The Industrial and Employees Relations Bill, being introduced into state parliament this month, is predicted to generate the biggest overhaul of the industrial relations system since
But The Dead Are Many
By Frank Hardy
University of Queensland Press. 293 pp., $16.95
Reviewed by Dave Riley
The image of communism promoted during the Cold War years was that of the great purges. Leading communist cadre were executed as
Socialist candidate slams Valley Mall 'racism'
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — Susan Price, Democratic Socialist candidate for the Central ward in the March 26 Brisbane City Council elections, has condemned the "racist harassment" of Aborigines
No corn whiskey required
The Tinkers: Traditional Irish and American Music
Cassette available from Tim Meyen (06) 230 2504, or Sean Kenan (06) 2470 294
Reviewed by Denis Kevans
If music means timing, then this tape by the Tinkers, which
Toxic waste plan for SA
By Anthony Thirlwall
ADELAIDE — South Australia could be the site of Australia's first high-temperature toxic waste incinerator.
The state Liberal government has revealed that the Environmental Protection
The elections in South Africa are just over a month away. Shortly, South Africa will have its first democratic government. The coverage of the major political event of the year from the mass media has been stunning.
The establishment media have
International Women's Day art exhibition
White Egret Gallery, Darwin
Reviewed by Deb Sorensen
Ten women artists, eight of them from the Northern Territory, were represented in this exhibition, which ran for two weeks from International
By Norm Dixon
JOHANNESBURG — Sam Shilowa, general secretary of the 1.4 million-member Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), has described South African employers' resistance to COSATU-organised voter education on the shop floor as
ROBYN MARSHALL, ROBYNNE MURPHY and MARGARET GLEESON are in El Salvador as observers in the March 20 elections. Here they report some initial impressions.
To celebrate the winding up of the election campaign, 8000 FMLN supporters filled the Plaza
Unhappy
"There is no correlation between happiness and money. I believe the richer you get the richer you want to be and the competition to climb up the rich list causes unhappiness." — Stockbroker Rene Rivkin, explaining that his mate,
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