By Peter Boyle
MELBOURNE — In the last days of the Kirner Labor government of Victoria, the report of an independent review of the state public sector's finances (the Nicholls Review) was released. While the media made much of its finding
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By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Sixteen months after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the sense that Russia had slipped back into the era of "plebiscite" elections was uncanny. There was only one name on the ballot paper. Voters were
British toxic waste down the sewer
Friends of the Earth in Britain on April 28 named 23 companies in the north-east that have been pouring toxic waste down the drain. The companies include household names such as Ever Ready, Sterling Winthrop
General strike threat in Fiji
The Fiji Trade Union Congress has threatened a national strike if the government fails to abolish controversial labour laws.
The Fiji Daily Post reported on April 15 that FTUC general secretary James Raman
MP's death confirmed
By Norm Dixon
The death of Ken Savia, the minister of health in the Bougainville Interim Government and former minister for health in the North Solomons Provincial Government, has been confirmed by the Papua New
By Ann McNally
WASHINGTON — Media reports of the March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Rights and Liberation quoted a Park Service estimate of 300,000 participants. This would be a disappointment if true, since 1 million persons
A Celtic Breeze in the Antipodes
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The Evergreen Realm
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By Michael Karadjis
In his article "Ambiguous names and places" (GLW, April 21), Gyorgy Scrinis claims that I set up a simple distinction between "Greeks" and "Macedonians", whereas in reality different peoples regard themselves as
By Bernie Brian
WOLLONGONG — South Coast Labour Council secretary Paul Matters and Australian Workers Union organiser Neville Hilton are both facing charges under the NSW Crimes Act as a result of their involvement in a picket line at the
Mouth
By Ben Courtice
"Capitalism — your want for personal gain ... In this world there is not enough for you to own so much", screams Tim Evans, singer and guitarist for the band Mouth — a classic line, echoed on T-shirts and
The enemy within
Health and the lack of it are not purely medical issues. The myriad of factors which may be involved in causing disease are taken up in Norman Swan's four-part series Invisible Enemies, screening Sundays at 7.30 p.m. (7.00 in
Loggers cheat Solomon Islands
The Solomon Islands government says logging companies operating in the country have been cheating Solomon Islands of millions of dollars in timber export revenues annually. It will attempt to recover US$300,000
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