Peanut butter and pineapple rings
Did ya see it? I certainly did. You wouldn't catch me missing an event like that. Not in a million years. Came right up the main street, it did. In cooee of our front gate. The kids were so THRILLED. Their
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Abandoned Kakadu mines are still radioactive
BY BRIAN TUPP
A memo from the Office of the Supervising Scientist, leaked to environmentalists
on June 6, has confirmed that abandoned South Alligator uranium mines are
posing a radiation
D-Day for Dairy farmers
BY SUE BOLAND
July 1 is D-day for dairy farmers around Australia — not only is
that the start-date for the GST but it's also the date scheduled for the
final deregulation of the dairy industry.
Overnight,
Fikile Majola, general secretary of the National Education, Health and
Allied Workers Union (NEHAWU), on June 7 called on university workers and
students around the world to offer urgent solidarity to the workers of
the University of the
Caught greed, bowled Satan
“In a moment of stupidity and weakness I allowed Satan and the world to
dictate terms to me.” — Hansie Cronje, sacked as South African cricket
captain after admitting to taking money from a bookmaker.
Making a difference?
On June 8, Australian Democrat Senator Natasha Stott Despoja described
her experiences of being a woman politician. She was addressing the launch
of the New York-based Women's Environment and Development
Student union refuses affiliation to political clubs
BY RUTH RATCLIFFE
CANBERRA — Citing its policy of refusing to affiliate any club deemed
“political”, the University of Canberra Union n(UCU) has rejected an application
for
It was worth it
A friend wrote recently, informing me of the pain his grand-daughter
is experiencing. She is bi-racial and lives in a neighbourhood in England
where only a few children look like her.
 Children taunt her about
BY JONATHAN SINGER
Establishment newspaper headlines still proclaim Australia's “powerhouse
economy”, but have workers really benefited from all the increased wealth
of the past decade?
Measured by growth in gross domestic product (GDP),
SEOUL — The May 31 to June 4 general strike by South Korean workers has deepened differences between the reformist Democratic Labour Party (DLP) and militants seeking to build a counter-offensive against President Kim Dae Jung's neo-liberal
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DENIS HALLIDAY worked for the United Nations for 34 years as a specialist in Third World development. In August 1997 he was appointed the UN's chief relief coordinator in Iraq where he supervised the "oil-for-food" program until his very public
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