Red Cross Bougainville claim queried By Norm Dixon and Tom Jordan The Solomon Islands government is prepared to help transport desperately needed medical supplies into Bougainville. The offer comes after claims by the head of the PNG Red
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By Roger Raven Until the early 1970s, the system of financial regulation relied largely on controls on banks' freedom to manipulate their assets and liabilities, through regulation of interest rates, the purposes for which money was lent and
Marchers back cause of Native Americans A number of walks have been organised in the United States to raise public awareness of issues affecting Native Americans, particularly nuclear weapons testing. SHARON NAGLE, who has been participating in
Sirocco, Alan Stivell and Dedannan Sydney Town Hall, October 6 Reviewed by Bernie Brian I had the opportunity to hear Alan Stivell and Dedannan play at an Irish pub in Paddington a week before their October 6 concert. The smell of the coal
Calls for Queen to waive By Frank Noakes LONDON — We are not amused. Elizabeth Windsor, her family and other animals, look set to feel the cold wind of financial uncertainty. Well, not so much a wind really, more of a fiscal breeze.
Rhetoric and flowers In September the federal National Party released its first ever women's policy. An unidentified "Labor man", interviewed in the Melbourne Age, confirmed that the policy was so similar to the ALP policy "you could just about
By Claire Thompson and Unna Liddy Until the recent introduction of the human relationships course in Queensland high schools, education about sexuality was limited to a description of the reproductive organs, isolated from decision making,
By Norm Dixon The people of Angola have decisively rebuffed the bid for power by the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) in presidential and parliamentary elections held on September 29 and 30. The ruling Popular
Transport stop-works By Rebecca Meckelburg ADELAIDE — Members of the Australian Tramways and Motor Omnibus Employees Association in SA held a stop-work on October 7. The meeting was to discuss the Industrial Relations Commission's
By Norm Dixon "Commuters travelling on trains, buses and taxis have been coming under increasing attack and are daily being exposed to the danger of losing their lives while simply travelling to and fro from their work." This description
'Remembering' Vietnam Seventeen years after the April 30, 1975, liberation of Saigon, the world's first "television war" is again dominating the screens. This time the effect is to produce a new history of the first colonial war that the US and
War by other means War by other means A documentary by John Pilger Soon to be shown on ABC TV Reviewed by Tamara Desiatov "War and debt are exactly the same things, and you don't have to occupy the same territory", says writer and director
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