Bleak prospects for Tasmania
By Ben Courtice
HOBART — Unemployment in Tasmania reached 12.6% according to seasonally adjusted figures released on January 14.
This is the highest figure recorded in Australia since monthly surveys
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Future of New Left Party uncertain
By Sean Malloy
A national meeting in March may determine whether the New Left Party will continue to exist, according to several prominent members.
Rumours have been circulating in progressive
Comment by Allen Myers
Part of the population-environment debate in recent issues of Â鶹´«Ã½ has focused on Paul Erlich's formula I=PAT. This attempts to relate environmental impact to population, average levels of affluence or consumption
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — After the stirring events of mid-December, when the Congress of People's Deputies managed to sack acting Premier Yegor Gaidar despite Boris Yeltsin's desire to keep him in office, few Russians were expecting
Indian Pacific looks at Indonesia — The third program of IP's series on Indonesia examines the role of the military, whose representatives are granted 100 seats in parliament. There is currently a debate over dwifungsi — the "dual role" of the
By Gina Rogers
The Hague — A continuing dispute between a Dutch multinational and British workers has alarmed trade unionists on both sides of the channel. Many of those involved see the case as an indicator of the future weakening of trade
SA Liberals threaten to privatise transport
By Melanie Sjoberg
ADELAIDE — Proposals from the state Liberal Party demonstrate that this city's already debilitated public transport system is going to be further eroded following a change
Summer of protests in Tasmania
By Natasha Simons
HOBART — The Wilderness Society's "long hot summer" campaign of national forest protests began in Tasmania on January 11. TWS national director Karenne Jurd says 150 volunteers have
Fairfield prepares for Carnivale
SYDNEY — Multicultural Fairfield in western Sydney is preparing for a range of activities during Carnivale, January 22 to February 6. Cabravale Park and Freedom Plaza, Cabramatta, will come alive for the
By Peter Boyle
Confined for six years in a tiny cell, Mordechai Vanunu, who exposed Israel's secret nuclear weapons program, is being subjected to systematic ill-treatment which threatens his mental stability, says Gideon Spiro, an Israeli
Court cancels the right to picket
By Herb Thompson
PERTH — In a case with far-reaching implications, the Builders Labourers' Federation in Western Australia has been found to have breached Section 45D of the Trade Practices Act, which
N-waste plan condemned
Aboriginal groups, Greenpeace and Democrat Senator John Coulter are among many who have condemned a federal government plan to transfer 2000 cubic metres of radioactive waste from Sydney to the Woomera rocket range in
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