By Francesca Davis
On August 9, the Australian Greens announced their national Senate team. Greens Senator Bob Brown predicted the party would win extra seats in the eastern states and retain the seat held by Dee Margetts from the WA Greens. In
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"We don't work for consumers in Argentina or Africa, and we don't care about public health issues there." That was how the US deputy assistant trade representative for intellectual property responded two years ago to a suggestion that the US trade representative (USTR) should approach pharmaceutical patent policies as a public health issue rather than as a trade issue.
Poem: I can't abide (Tune: Abide with me)
I can't abide (Tune: Abide with me)
I can't abide the government's front bench, send them away to the Germans or the FrenchI can't abide Costello's shallow sneer — won't someone make the bastard
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — After pledging US$22.6 billion to save Russia from economic meltdown, international lenders are being called upon to extend a further US$18 billion. Not, this time, to avoid metaphorical meltdowns, but to help set the
By Eva Cheng
The last time — in January 1995 — that Beijing endeavoured to shake the vested interests of the military, a harmless "temporary regulation on economic accountability" was issued for "leading army cadres" in the name of the
By Leo Wellin
Thousands of Telstra workers covered by the Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union (CEPU) attended stop-work meetings around the country on August 13 to hear the latest offer for a new two-year enterprise agreement. The other
Peter Montague
In 1985, cows in Britain began to die of a mysterious ailment that no-one had ever seen before. The cows staggered and drooled, their ears twitching. Then they began to show signs of fear, grinding their teeth, acting aggressively
By Chris Slee
An editorial in a recent edition of the Irish Echo (a paper for Irish people in Australia) draws some interesting parallels between anti-immigrant prejudice today and anti-Irish prejudice in 19th-century Australia. Some 19th-century
Blue stockings
From August 17 to 21, Blue Stocking Week, events will be held on campuses across Australia to focus attention on women's participation in higher education. A century ago, women who wanted a formal education were referred to by
By George J. Aditjondro
The popular demands to investigate the billions of dollars pillaged by former President Suharto from the Indonesian people and state coffers seem to have dwindled. One of the main stumbling blocks is the unwillingness of
Uranium mining method far from 'benign'
By Gavin Mudd
The mining technique of in situ leaching (ISL), often referred to
as solution mining, is becoming an increasingly favoured method for the
extraction of uranium across the world.
Reply by Francesca Davis
Australians for an Ecologically Sustainable Population argues that "Australians impact on the environment in two ways: by our numbers and practices". The problem with this argument is that it deals with the issues of
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