By Angela Walker
While islands have long conjured up images of "paradise", they have been treated as exploitable colonies, toxic waste dumping grounds, nuclear testing grounds and strategic sites for military bases.
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By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — In the last weeks of May, the nerve of Russia's chief economic strategists seemed to crack. Ending months of confident statements by government leaders, President Boris Yeltsin admitted to a meeting of industrial
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By Nick Sudakov
The Whitsunday branch of the Queensland Greens has called on the federal government and the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) to take immediate action to protect the reefs fringing the Whitsunday Islands.
By Ray Ferguson
BRISBANE — Brisbane City Council bus drivers stopped work for four hours on June 3 in protest against council management failure to properly consult with the union leadership concerning the implementation of periodic medical
By Tom Flanagan
Brisbane will be the scene of much discussion and celebration by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and generally queer and pro-queer people from all over Australia in the early weeks of July.
The fourth Queer
ADELAIDE — A pro-choice picket at Parliament House on June 10 attracted 50 people. Organised by the pro-choice club from Adelaide University, the protest was part of an ongoing campaign to repeal all anti-abortion laws and for funding to provide
Jobs go in WA budget
By Stephen Robson
PERTH — Another 1300 jobs will be cut from the state public service following the second Court government budget, brought down on June 9. Premier Richard Court indicated that most of these would be
Breast cancer has received a great deal of publicity of late. The federal government's considerable funding allocations to the disease in the last budget were touted as marking both its recognition of the importance of the disease as a public health
Youth workers 'evil': cop
By Sean Healy
PERTH — Retiring Police Superintendent Kevin Moran has called for a royal commission to investigate youth workers and their "evil" impact on society and young people.
"The youth industry in
Billabongs 'a biodiversity jungle'
The billabongs of the Murray-Darling Basin might be as rich in biodiversity as the waters of the Amazon jungles, according to a scientist with the Murray-Darling Freshwater Research Centre at Albury.
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By Carla Gorton
SYDNEY — Attempts to remove the term "invasion" from a draft primary school Australian history syllabus in New South Wales have outraged many educators. In the draft Human Society and its Environment syllabus, the word
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