Key word: 'normal'
"I think it is quite inappropriate and has been for some time that any anthem other than our own should be played at normal Australian gatherings." — Liberal frontbencher John Howard, supporting a motion to stop playing
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Paul Foot leaves Mirror
By Frank Noakes
LONDON — Respected journalist and author Paul Foot has quit the Daily Mirror after writing a weekly page for 13 years.
Foot, a member of the British Socialist Workers Party since 1962,
74 days of action end after a week
By Di Quin
MELBOURNE — On May 25, Victorian public sector unions suspended the industrial action component of their "74 days of action" campaign, which started on May 17. Only teacher unions and the
By Deb Sorensen
Kakadu National Park — "Along the Stuart Highway, left onto the Arnhem Highway, past the Humpty Doo turn-off and the Hard Croc Cafe. When you reach the Wildman River, you'll know you're almost there."
And so I set off
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — "It's not realistic to stick to the law", Sergei Yushenkov, an aide to President Boris Yeltsin, was quoted in the Moscow press recently. "The congress is now illegitimate."
More bluntly than Yeltsin,
$8 per week: don't hold your breath
In April, the ACTU Executive decided that now was not the right time to lodge a claim for the $8 per week so-called safety net wage rise "promised" under Accord Mark VII. According to the ACTU, the high
World Environment Day actions
By Wendy Robertson
June 5 is World Environment Day, and the Environmental Youth Alliance is organising activities in most centres to get people together and active under the theme of "Environmental Justice
There was no morphine in the first-aid kit; no protection for Snowden against the pain but the numbing shock of the wound itself. The twelve syrettes of morphine had been stolen from their case and replaced by a cleanly lettered note that said:
Australia, the second driest continent on earth, has the highest volume of stored water per person in the world; per capita consumption of water is also one of the world's highest. JANET PARKER looks at the problems of water in our most populous
Gillespie speaks on crisis
By Dan Murphy
ADELAIDE — Growing community opposition to Australia's complicity in Papua New Guinea's war on Bougainville will be focused in a national day of action on July 25.
The depth of concern over
By Bruce Threlfo
Most of Sydney's water comes from Warragamba Dam. Built in the 1960s, it contains about 70% of the capacity of Sydney's reservoirs. The remaining capacity is in nine smaller dams.
Sydney's water consumption has trebled
Major NSW environment groups have expressed serious concerns about the content of the environmental section of the official Sydney Olympic bid.
Sid Walker, executive officer of the Nature Conservation Council, the umbrella group for the NSW
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