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$3000 up-front fee for NSW law students By Karen Fletcher SYDNEY — The three-month professional legal practice course at the College of Law will cost students $3000 plus materials fees of around $250, up front, in 1996. The college says
Nomination I'd like to nominate the Honorable Gareth Evans for the inaugural award of the Crichton-Browne statuette to the Australian politician for outstanding achievements in disservices to humanity. The award already affectionately known as
Adelaide campaign for East Timor takes off By Jon Lamb ADELAIDE — The campaign in support of a free East Timor is well and truly under way here, with several successful meetings and events over the past month. On April 7, Resistance
New party launched in El Salvador A new centrist party, "El Partido Democracia" (Democracy Party) was launched in San Salvador in late March. It is a consolidation of those elements which, rejecting Marxism and embracing social democracy, split
Public relations gone wrong The first Global Cultural Diversity Conference held at Darling Harbour in Sydney last week may have brought together 1000 delegates from around the world in an impressive show of skin colours, ethnic costumes and
PERTH — The WA Forest Alliance and Wilderness Society are encouraging people of all ages, levels of fitness and degrees of concern to see the Sharpe Forest and be active in its preservation. On April 24, the Department of Conservation and Land
By Daniel B. Schirmer Philippine-US relations appear to be on the verge of a radical and retrogressive shift — reinstating US military dominance of the island nation after it had been seriously challenged by the Philippine Senate's defeat of
Green elected in NSW By Dave Wright SYDNEY — Ian Cohen from the Greens has won a seat in the state's upper house. Other minor party candidates elected include the right-wing Shooters Party and Call to Australia, as well as a Democrat
Higher Learning Starring Omar Epps, Kristy Swanson, Jennifer Connelly and Ice Cube Written and directed by John Singleton Screening at Hoyts cinemas Reviewed by Sean Moysey The bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City on April 18
By Tully Bates and Felicity Whitworth MELBOURNE — The Victorian government has invested over $1 million in an advertising campaign which promotes the economic and social benefits of a Grand Prix in Albert Park. This amounts to a campaign of
By John Lindsay-Poland The US military revealed for the first time on March 9 which US bases in Panama it plans to consider keeping beyond the year 2000, when the Carter-Torrijos Treaties mandate their withdrawal. In hearings convened by
By Eddy Jokovich The war in Bosnia-Hercegovina has now passed its third year. It has been three years of a public and inept display of international conflict resolution and mediation by the "great" powers and the organisations that purport to