By Peter Montague
Can reliance on the marketplace by itself control pollution? Here we examine a case study — the dry cleaning industry.
There is nothing dry about dry cleaning. All materials processed by dry cleaners are soaked in toxic
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By Arun Pradhan
Indonesian academic George Aditjondro has consistently exposed the repression that occurs in his own country, but is better known for his outspoken support for independence in East Timor. Now lecturing at Murdoch University in
Easter this year will be different across Australia. In four cities, it will take on a distinctly Russian hue.
Not that Â鶹´«Ã½ is promoting painted eggs. As regular readers will know, Russian writer and socialist activist Boris Kagarlitsky
Based on highly reliably international contacts, leaked documents and horoscopes from several TV magazines, Nostradamus' Media Watch presents a highly accurate forecast of political events across the globe.
The World According to Gareth
By Jennifer Thompson
Israeli military experts are helping the Turkish government combat Kurdish separatist guerillas, the French weekly "confidential" newsletter TTU said on March 17.
The newsletter, which uses unnamed sources, said Turkey
By Sonny Melencio
Protests against the execution of Flor Contemplacion, the Filipina maid hanged in Singapore, escalated across the Philippines even after her burial on March 27. At dawn on that day, urban guerillas from the Alex Boncayao
RMIT fees to rise
By Sean Healy
MELBOURNE — As is appropriate for a university that has just appointed smallgoods king Sam Smorgon its new chancellor, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology is leading the way on becoming a
By Eva Cheng
More workers in Japan are likely to lose their jobs or have their pay packets cut as the rise of the yen to new heights encourages Japanese companies to shift more production lines to the Third World, where costs are cheaper.
By Con Gouriotis
and Nadya Stani
SYDNEY — Watching the decontamination process at the Australian Defence Industries (ADI) site at St Marys is like trying to understand, while digging up a serial killer s victims, how it ever could have
TERESITA CARPIO is an official from the 30,000-strong United Workers of the Philippines (UWP), a trade union federation of mostly women workers, based in Metro-Manila. The federation covers workers from the textile, clothing, footwear and food
By Chantal Wynter and Kim Linden
MELBOURNE — Eighty people attended a forum on March 14 at Budinski's Theatre of Exile, in association with the reading of Classroom 3A, the testimony of Bosnian rape-camp survivor, Amira S.
Elly Varrenti
Sarcasm anyone?
By Brandon Astor Jones
"The trouble with the Republican Party is that it has not had a new idea for 30 years." — Woodrow Wilson
America's new speaker of the House of Representatives is also a history professor who
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