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By Paul Walker For more than a year the United States has been pursuing a confrontation with North Korea over its alleged attempts to manufacture nuclear weapons. In the war of words, Clinton last November threatened to destroy North Korea,
Sinn Fein member denied visa By Frank Enright SYDNEY — County Tyrone councillor and Sinn Fein member Barry McElduff was denied a visa to visit Sydney and thus prevented, amongst other things, from addressing the International Â鶹´«Ã½
Regional authority for Torres Strait Following recent council elections, Torres Strait islands' elected chairpersons, who currently make up the Island Coordinating Council (ICC), will automatically become councillors on the Torres Strait
The International Â鶹´«Ã½ Conference over the Easter weekend was a notable success. The conference drew participants from as far afield as Perth in Australia and Brazil internationally. The main plenary sessions energetically attacked the
By Diana Evans [This article is a response to "What is an Ecologically Sustainable Population?" by Emma Webb, in our March 23 issue.] In the debate on the causes and solutions to our rapidly deteriorating global environment and social
By Richard Hindmarsh The challenge to genetic engineering (GE) is meeting strong resistance from corporate agribusiness and its powerful allies within public sector research and development organisations like the CSIRO and pro-biotech government
Leonard Peltier is a Native American who has spent the last 17 years in jail following a controversial trial that found him guilty of murdering two FBI agents. He is the longest-serving Native political prisoner in the United States. On June 26,
The lost generation In looking at the struggle for women's rights, we shouldn't forget our great grandmothers, who fought for the right to vote in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. The current generation of grandmothers, of
No workers' paradise On March 30 civilisation as we knew it ended, or so the employers' representatives would have us believe: Australian workers have been granted jobs virtually for life. ACTU secretary Bill Kelty described the event as the
Looking out: Update on a dispute By Brandon Astor Jones On March 23, 1994, I spoke with the temporary supervisor of G-Unit, Captain Freeman, and the head counsellor, Claude McCann. Among other things I asked what, if anything, had been done
"I say the land belongs to us, and the Arabs don't belong to us, so the land we should keep. The Arabs we should let go. I think it's feasible to do so. Militarily it's no problem ... "You can't have both a democracy in which any group can
By Pip Hunter In preparing the 1994-95 budget, the federal government received 57 submissions from business, community, professional, employer and employee organisations. These submissions have been published by the Economic Planning Advisory