By Kevin Taylor
MOE — Victoria's Latrobe Valley has three substantial public hospitals: a modern 150-bed hospital in Moe, one in Traralgon and the Hobsons Park psychiatric hospital. There are also two publicly owned nursing homes. For six years
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Pepsi withdraws from Burma
A six-year campaign has ended with PepsiCo's announcement that it will totally withdraw from Burma by May 31. PepsiCo sells Pepsi and 7-Up in Burma under the brutal State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC).
SYDNEY — On February 3, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission announced that it would contribute $6 million to "alleviating the social and environmental problems of Sydneys Redfern Aboriginal Community" by funding a proposal for
The Woman I'll Be
puts her hair up with a comb
of absolute zero, fastens
it with a pack of hounds
until it forms a straight peak,
utters words like a species
of pepper, and has a blemish
on her tongue, is certain
she is not asleep,
By Kerry Vernon
BRISBANE — The Queensland Anti-discrimination Tribunal ruled on January 31 that the medical group QFG had discriminated both directly and indirectly against a lesbian when it refused her access to artificial insemination through a
Burma: insurgency and the politics of ethnicityBy Martin SmithZed Books, 1991. 492 pp., $59.95. Review by Eva Cheng
Though Burma: insurgency and the politics of ethnicity was published six years ago, it remains one of the richest and most
Indonesia: What's behind the 'religious' riots
By James Balowski
Over the last 16 months, Indonesia's much touted "political stability" has been tested by some of the worst violence since the New Order regime seized power in 1965. As president
Monsanto agrees to change Roundup ads
Monsanto Corporation has agreed to change its advertising for glyphosate-based products, including Roundup, in response to complaints by the New York attorney general's office that the ads were misleading. The
The workers who wouldn't be persuadedThe workers who wouldn't be persuaded
By Peter Boyle
Since the collapse of the bureaucratic regimes in eastern Europe, we've been told that socialism is just another discredited 19th century philosophy.
By Boris Kagarlitsky
MOSCOW — While Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin and presidential chief of staff Anatoly Chubais jostle for power under Yeltsin, interior minister General Anatoly Kulikov is systematically occupying key positions. The
Kennett loses by-election
By Maurice Sibelle
MELBOURNE — The Kennett Liberal government lost its second safest seat on February 1 in a by-election for the Gippsland West seat of Wonthaggi. In its first major electoral defeat, the Liberals'
By Amanda Radcliffe
Last October, the Bakun Dam project contracts were signed in Malaysia between the Swedish-Swiss Asia Brown Boveri (ABB) consortium and Ekran Berhad. The US$5.5 billion Bakun Dam, masterminded by the timber tycoon and executive
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