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By Sarah Stephen [This article is a response to Tasmanian Greens MHA Mike Foley's article "3 steps to job growth" in the Daily Planet.] Debate and discussion on the issue of unemployment and job creation rarely get much of a public hearing beyond the
In the two years of its existence, the Native Title Tribunal has not been able to resolve a single case. Who is to blame? Kauser Khan-Rasool reports. Two years after the Native Title Act, NSW Aboriginal communities have found a new and unexpected
By WALHI Indigenous communities in Central Kalimantan maintain an Australian-owned joint gold mining venture is polluting their rivers. PT Indo Muro Kencana (IMK) is a joint-venture mining company comprising Muro Offshore Pty Ltd (Ashton Mining,
By Norm Dixon More than 100 Cuban doctors will arrive in South Africa before the end of February. The doctors will staff posts in rural areas where apartheid-educated medicos refuse to work. Dr Nkosazana Zuma, health minister in the ANC-led
By Karl Charikar MELBOURNE — The City Link project is as much a federal election issue as it is a state one. But in the jockeying for votes between Liberal and Labor, transport, pollution and congestion problems have been pushed to the sidelines.
Hurrah for dubious corruption! "The present system, though it is dubious and corrupt, does involve a good number of distinguished people and talent." — British historian Ben Pimlott on the House of Lords. Equality "Equal Employment Opportunity 7th
Give bread to the people I guess we can afford it. Well, we must admit we live in some sort of decent luxury. Of course, we deserve it, thanks to the superiority of our enterprising mind and our special standing in the order of things. But let our
By Jennifer Thompson The debate over privatisation — never far from the surface, especially in Victoria — has risen again in the federal election campaign over the proposed sale of Telstra by a Coalition government, and over Labor's own record of
By Janet Parker SYDNEY — The No Aircraft Noise Party (NAN) sprang into existence weeks before the NSW state election of March 1995. Its goal was to end the damage inflicted on the homes, health and quality of life of those affected by the opening
By Roberto Jorquera Sierra Maestra, a nine-piece Latin dance orchestra, is again bringing the essence of Cuban dance music to Australia after its successful tour in 1995. Since its formation in 1978, Sierra Maestra has played throughout Europe,
By Marina Carman CANBERRA — Student Representative Council (SRC) members from a number of ACT high schools and colleges held a rally here on February 16 attended by more than 400 students. The main speakers, SRC students from Lake Tuggeranong
Colonising the Seed: Genetic Engineering and Techno-Industrial AgricultureBy Gyorgy ScrinisPublished by Friends of the Earth, 199540pp., $5Reviewed by Michael McNamara This compact publication presents a persuasive synthesis of the arguments against