By Peter Boyle MELBOURNE — A just-completed conference of international experts has confirmed that relatively low exposure to lead pollution can permanently damage intellectual development in children. The October 5-9 gathering of the
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By Catherine Brown An Athens football stadium was packed to capacity with 40,000 people on October 6, and another 20,000 gathered outside, all in solidarity with bus workers, who have been on strike since July. The strikers, who have been
Wilderness Society says forest ad is wrong By Peter Anderson SYDNEY — The Wilderness Society has appealed to the Trade Practices Commission, the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal and the Advertising Standards Council for a nationwide ban on
The murder that stays with us Swoon Directed by Tom Kalin Starring Craig Chester and Dam Schlachet Valhalla Cinema, Glebe; Classic, Brisbane Reviewed by Tom Flanagan Based on the 1924 murder of a young boy by two Chicago youths, Swoon
By Peter Boyle A national Green Party was slow to emerge in Australia because the major conservation movements were "romanced" by federal and state Labor governments, according to Peter Christoff, Victoria's assistant commissioner for the
By Frank Noakes BLACKPOOL — Tory Sir Robert Peel wrote in the 1820s: "Men (sic) who ... have no property except their manual skill and strength, ought to be allowed to confer together, if they think fit, for the purpose of determining at what
By Sean Malloy While the ALP government insists the recession is "technically" finished, hundreds of thousands of people face long-term unemployment, and there is an increasing amount of underemployment, according to two articles in the latest
Like the pound "Whatever he puts forward now in the way of economic policy won't be worth the paper it's written on." — A British economist discussing Chancellor of the Exchequer Norman Lamont's future prospects in the capitalist new world
Comment by Barry Healy Federal public servants will be voting in the next few weeks on three alternative motions framed by the National Executive of the Public Sector Union to open the way for enterprise bargaining in the Australian Public
ADELAIDE — The Environmental Youth Alliance will hold a state festival here October 24-25. The opening address, by Domingo Colicoi, will be on indigenous people's struggles to save the environment in Chile. The event will be held at the Box
By Peter Anderson On current trends, say some experts, humans could theoretically be the only species left on the planet within 50 to 100 years — an absurdity that highlights the imminence of environmental collapse under the weight of
Mining disaster By Frank Noakes LONDON — The British government will officially announce a plan, already leaked, to close 30 of the remaining deep mined coal pits here, from October 12. Twenty will close immediately, costing 20,000
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