By Kim Bullimore
CANBERRA — ACT Jabiluka Action Group and members of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy held a colourful and vocal picket outside the National Press Club luncheon on September 30. Kim Beazley was addressing the luncheon. About 20
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The same old routine
Now that the election is over, maybe we can all get back to normal. — What do you mean "normal"?
Run of the mill existence, same old routine ... that sort of thing.
— But we've just had an election.
So?
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Serious public health and environmental problems related to pesticide use exist in both Nicaragua and Guatemala, according to a recent report from the Danish Agency for International Development (DANIDA). The report found that new estimates place the
Growth industry
"Uranium is a growth industry",Says the Mining Maggot, always smilin' —You're sure to get a growth out of it, you idiot!Just look at the people from the Marshall Islands!
Denis Kevans
Coalition has no mandate for a GST
John Howard claims that his government has "won the mandate from the Australian people" for a goods and services tax. He warned the Senate not interfere with this mandate by blocking or seeking to amend the GST.
By Saffron Howden
JABIRU, NT — About 300 protesters congregated outside Energy Resources of Australia's (ERA) Jabiluka mineral lease site on September 29 to send a final pre-election message to voters that the proposed uranium mine should be
By Jenni Devereux
Under the draft terms of the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) being designed by the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development, transnational companies will gain the unrestricted right and freedom to buy, sell
By Francesca Davis
On September 30, environment groups in Cologne and Bonn in Germany demonstrated in front of the Cologne Cathedral in protest against the Jabiluka mine. The activists likened the mining of Kakadu to mining under the Cologne
By Bronwen Beechey
ADELAIDE — South Australia ("the driest state in the driest country") relies on the Murray River and rainfall in the Adelaide Hills catchment for its water supply. These sources are heavily polluted from sewerage, agricultural
World economic crisis begins to hit US
By Barry Sheppard
The stock market was sent reeling by the news that Long Term Capital (LTC), a highly speculative investment firm, was bankrupt and had to be bailed out by a group of banks as a result
By M-J Milloy
It took the early white missionaries and explorers weeks to navigate the rugged coastline of northern Washington State to reach the Makah nation, perched on the very north-western tip of the United States. It won't take that long for
Left win at Griffith University
By Adam Baker
BRISBANE — The broad left ticket at Griffith University, LEFT, scored a sweeping victory at the recent student representative council elections. With much of the executive vote counted, LEFT has won
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