Maggots unite!
"It sounds terrible, but it is a fact that flies get into wounds on occasions." — Senator John Herron, representing the minister for aged care, excusing maggots infesting the wounds of patients at Perth's Kensington Park Nursing
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On March 16, the Paris Club of rich creditor countries announced a suspension of Mozambique's debt repayments until July, following the floods that devastated the country earlier this month. The Jubilee 2000 coalition, which campaigns for the
UTS unionists vote for industrial action
By Melanie Sjoberg
SYDNEY — Academics and general staff at the University of Technology, Sydney have voted to begin rolling strikes at the university to secure a new enterprise agreement. The unionists
By Jim Green
Melting snow and torrential rains broke a dam at the Baia Borsa lead
and zinc mine in Romania, 375 kilometres north-west of Bucharest, on March
10. More than 18,000 tonnes of sediment laden with lead, zinc, copper and
a small
Comment by Melanie Sjoberg
Federal ALP leader Kim Beazley and Labor's industrial relations spokesperson Arch Bevis have finally caught up with the common view that the Accord is dead ... or have they? In an interview with Workers Online (March 3),
By Kim Bullimore
CANBERRA — A new permanent exhibition has recently opened in Old Parliament House's Discover Gallery. The exhibition, Corridors of Power, looks at Australia's political and social history since federation in 1901. The exhibition
Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive
current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point
of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Sunday, 9-11pm. Ph 9565 5522.
Access News — Melbourne
By Lara Pullin
The left-wing FMLN (Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front) won a resounding victory in March 12 legislative and municipal elections in El Salvador. The win is the FMLN's most significant political gain since the signing of the
Past and present?
By Brandon Astor Jones
"Doctors [in America] ... are treating more and more patients for back problems related to carrying too much weight on their backs. Furthermore, the patients reporting pain are quite young. A study
The business of universities
By Pat Brewer and Jeremy Smith
Since Labor education minister John Dawkins launched his infamous green paper on higher education in December 1987, public education has taken a battering from governments of both
What happened to the Democratic Republic of East Timor?
DILI — The small, unassuming office of the CPD-RDTL (Council in Defence of the Democratic Republic of East Timor) in Balide belies the debate that is brewing over the restoration of the
CLP by-election victory proves little
By Dave Murphy
DARWIN — The Northern Territory's chief minister, Denis Burke, claims that the Country Liberal Party (CLP) victory in the March 11 Port Darwin by-election shows that Territorians approve of
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