AMSTERDAM - "The policy demanded by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in exchange for loans leads to an increase in poverty. Subsidies on electricity, education and public transport are being cut ... There's already 80 million Indonesian people
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Darwin protests against APEC
BY LARISA FREIVERTS
DARWIN — Media mongrels, APEC staffers and plainclothes police watched
guardedly as 60 people gathered in Raintree Park on June 7 in a lively
protest action against the Asia Pacific
Caught greed, bowled Satan
In a moment of stupidity and weakness I allowed Satan and the world to
dictate terms to me. â Hansie Cronje, sacked as South African cricket
captain after admitting to taking money from a bookmaker.
World Bank gives go-ahead
The World Bank board on June 6 approved a controversial plan to build
an oil and gas pipeline from southern Chad, in central Africa, to the coast
of Cameroon. The pipeline is a joint venture between oil
Peanut butter and pineapple rings
Did ya see it? I certainly did. You wouldn't catch me missing an event like that. Not in a million years. Came right up the main street, it did. In cooee of our front gate. The kids were so THRILLED. Their
BY LESLIE RICHMOND
ADELAIDE â Five hundred people marched on Glenelg's Grand Hotel
on June 4 to denounce an official government World Environment Day conference.
Rally organisers called Adelaide's official host city status a farce
'Stop the war!'
The Eritrean community rallied in Brisbane on June 6 chanting "We want peace, stop the war!" and demanding humanitarian assistance from the federal government for those suffering in Eritrea. Since Ethiopia began a massive military
BY MELANIE GILLBANK
The Peoples' Forum 2000 and the mass protests which followed, in Chiang Mai, Thailand, in early May, were born of suffering, anger and betrayal. Twelve hundred people attended the forum to share their stories of hardship and
A Month in the CountryBy Brian Friel, after TurgenevSydney Theatre CompanyDrama Theatre at the Opera HouseUntil July 15 Review by Mark Stoyich
Three examples of recent translations of foreign classics have given Sydney audiences a chance to see how
Fijian community leader calls for democracy's restoration
BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS
BRISBANE â Fifty two homes have been broken into. Families are
fleeing into the bush. Cattle are being slaughtered and police vehicles
are being used for
Student union refuses affiliation to political clubs
BY RUTH RATCLIFFE
CANBERRA â Citing its policy of refusing to affiliate any club deemed
political, the University of Canberra Union n(UCU) has rejected an application
for
Kumarangk 'Karaoke and Kake'
ADELAIDE â Once upon a time, a large number of people who spoke out against
a proposed bridge to Kumarangk (Hindmarsh Island) were sued by the developers
of a marina on the island. Defamation Magic turned them
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