By Marina Cameron
On January 15, the federal government announced the composition and terms of reference of a new review of higher education. The review will cost $2 million and is expected to provide a blueprint for the 1998 federal budget and the
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Student union worker victimised
By Maurice Sibelle
MELBOURNE — On January 17, a Victoria University of Technology student union employee was sacked. The university administration has refused to renew Bill Deller's contract despite the fact that
By Sam Wainwright
A minor storm has been created in Germany by seven Green and Social Democratic Party (SPD) members crossing the floor of the Bundestag (the federal parliament) to join Chancellor Kohl's conservative Christian Democrat (CDU)
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East Timor/Indonesia solidarity in Hobart
HOBART — Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor (ASIET) recently set up a branch here. It emerged from the university-based group Students in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor in an
Kurdish refugees' lives at risk
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees announced on December 21 that the Atrush refugee camp, inside the "safe haven" in northern Iraq, would be closed within a month. The camp houses 15,000 Kurdish
By Adam Hanieh
PLO President Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu signed a deal on January 15 that agreed on the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the West Bank town of Hebron. The original sticking point around withdrawal
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — In the first referendum of its kind in Russia, residents of an economically hard-hit rural area voted overwhelmingly during December to halt the building of a nuclear power plant. The victory for anti-nuclear
By Michael Karadjis
For weeks on end, hundreds of thousands of people have daily poured into the streets of the Serbian capital Belgrade, demanding that the ruling party of Slobodan Milosevic recognise the victory of the opposition Zajedno
Behind the 'moral fabric'
It is "the greatest social stabiliser", the "most effective welfare system possible" and a "haven in a heartless world". When it breaks down, "society" pays a huge price — young people turn to the streets and drugs,
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The Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) — The occupation of the Japanese embassy in Peru by militants of the MRTA demanding the release of political prisoners has featured heavily in the media. For the latest and most accurate
By Lara Pullin and Stuart Martin
CANBERRA — The February 1 federal by-election in the north Canberra seat of Fraser has become a focus for the "race debate". Of the 11 candidates, six have publicly advocated racist controls on immigration.
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