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Suggestions wanted "It was a time when I thought, I've done everything, the $10 million deal, the $100 million deal and the billion-dollar deal, and you ask, where do you go from there?" — Corporate raider Sir Ron Brierley, describing a
Adelaide EYA meets By Trish Corcoran ADELAIDE — Forty young people attended the Environmental Youth Alliance state meeting on Saturday, March 27. They discussed campaigns to take up in the next few months and the approaching EYA
By Boris Kagarlitsky MOSCOW — Following the Eighth Congress of People's Deputies, it became clear that the political situation in Russia had changed irreversibly. The growing opposition to Yeltsin on the part of the deputies reflected the
The Israeli government sealed off Gaza and the West Bank on March 28 and 30, respectively. AMOS WOLLIN is an Israeli commentator in Tel Aviv. MIRIAM TRAMER interviewed him for Green Left about the situation in the occupied territories. What
By Jose Gutierrez Herbert Anaya Sanabria, president of the non-governmental Human Rights Commission of El Salvador (CDHES), was gunned down by "unknown" assassins in the Zacamil neighbourhood in San Salvador on October 26, 1987. The
Manipulating Mabo The New Right has trundled out its old warhorses — Western Mining managing director Hugh Morgan and academic Geoffrey Blainey — once again, signalling the start of yet another reactionary campaign. In speeches to the
By Pip Hinman MELBOURNE — On the eve of the Kennett government's second mini-budget, due on April 6, the Victorian Council of Social Service has called on the government to target the rich rather than the public sector and capital works.
By Renfrey Clarke MOSCOW, March 30 — Russians will have the chance on April 25 to vote in a referendum on President Boris Yeltsin's "shock therapy" economic policies. In other questions in the parliament-sponsored poll, voters will be asked
On a recent visit to the Philippines, MAX LANE spoke to YUL CARINGAS, secretary general of the Katipunan Ng Mga Katutubang Mamamayan ng Pilipinas or KAMP (Federation of the Indigenous Peoples Association of the Philippines). Could you explain
ADELAIDE — Indigenous artists and art professionals from Australia and the Pacific nations, North America and Europe will converge here from April 12 to 17 for an international symposium hosted by the South Australian Museum and Tandanya
By Melanie Sjoberg ADELAIDE — The large radomes looming out of the desert in the far north of South Australia identify Nurrungar from a distance. They also symbolise the ongoing struggle against US bases and nuclear weapons. Over April
By Kristian Whittaker The Eighth National People's Congress (NPC) opened on March 15 in Beijing. The NPC is China's constitutional equivalent to a "parliament". The agenda includes the approval of a new government line-up and the passing