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How to plug the real black holes By Dick Nichols The following measures, which would fall most on those most able to bear them, would readily rake in funds needed to fund public health care, education and other welfare spending: Lifting the
Strong lyric style Yes Sir, No Sir3 Bags FullOracle Records, 1996 Review by Stuart Martin Having heard the band live at the Invasion Day rally at the Aboriginal tent embassy on the lawns of Old Parliament House in Canberra, I looked forward to
Indonesian activist addresses meetings By Bernard Wunsch BRISBANE — Robby Hartono, a pro-democracy and labour activist with the PRD (People's Democratic Party) in Indonesia, addressed several meetings in Brisbane last week. In a four-day tour,
Two more PRD activist to go on trial By James Balowski On February 4, the Jakarta daily Kompas reported that the trials of People's Democratic Party activists I Gusti Anom Astika and Wilson bin Nurtias have begun. Twelve PRD members are now being
@columhead = No-one told us before "Police often have very difficult decisions to make in the course of their work, and a code which gives them practicable and sensible guidelines will be very helpful." — Phil Tunchon, president of the NSW Police
By Kevin Taylor MOE — Victoria's Latrobe Valley has three substantial public hospitals: a modern 150-bed hospital in Moe, one in Traralgon and the Hobsons Park psychiatric hospital. There are also two publicly owned nursing homes. For six years
By Jennifer Thompson and James Vassilopoulos What do Graeme Samuel, president of the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI), the Young Liberals and Jeff Kennett all have in common? Well, if you believe the establishment press, they are
Pepsi withdraws from Burma A six-year campaign has ended with PepsiCo's announcement that it will totally withdraw from Burma by May 31. PepsiCo sells Pepsi and 7-Up in Burma under the brutal State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC).
SYDNEY — On February 3, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission announced that it would contribute $6 million to "alleviating the social and environmental problems of Sydneys Redfern Aboriginal Community" by funding a proposal for
The Woman I'll Be puts her hair up with a comb of absolute zero, fastens it with a pack of hounds until it forms a straight peak, utters words like a species of pepper, and has a blemish on her tongue, is certain she is not asleep,
Burma: insurgency and the politics of ethnicityBy Martin SmithZed Books, 1991. 492 pp., $59.95. Review by Eva Cheng Though Burma: insurgency and the politics of ethnicity was published six years ago, it remains one of the richest and most
By Kerry Vernon BRISBANE — The Queensland Anti-discrimination Tribunal ruled on January 31 that the medical group QFG had discriminated both directly and indirectly against a lesbian when it refused her access to artificial insemination through a