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Dear friends,
I am sending you this note to let you know about the VLGA (Victorian
Local Governance Association) web site at:
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~viclga/
I am aware that this is an unsolicited mail and would appreciate if you
could let
From The Australian, at:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/index.asp?URL=/world/4157462.htm
Iraqi letter sends US bombers into U-turn
By CAMERON STEWART New York correspondent
16nov98
MISSILE-laden B-52 bombers bound for Iraq were forced to turn around in
mid-air early yesterday when
from The Australian, today at:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/index.asp?URL=/finance/4169525.htm
Dock strike unloads Lang profit
By JOHN MACLEAY
9dec98
THE listed parent of Chris Corrigan's Patrick Stevedores, Lang
Corp,
reported yesterday that this year's waterfront dispute had cost
This may be of interest:
From The Age, Live Breaking News, 14 December; at:
http://www.theage.com.au/daily/981214/breaking/
Canada's military on call for Y2K chaos
The Canadian government may invoke emergency powers in
2000 in
case chaos and panic results from the Y2K computer bug,
In case you've missed it...
From The Age today:
http://www.theage.com.au/daily/981216/news/news20.html
Wednesday 16
December 1998
Official alert on year 2000 chaos
By ADRIAN ROLLINS and PHILLIP HUDSON,
CANBERRA
The
From the Electronic Disturbance Theater
CALL FOR FLOODNET ACTION
FOR PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST
VITRUAL SIT-IN ON
THE WHITE HOUSE WEB SITE
Friday, December 18, 1998
FROM 10:00 AM TO 4:00 PM
(Washington D.C. TIME)
FROM 4:00 PM TO 10:00 PM
(GMT- GREENWICH MEAN TIME)
MIT Professor Noam Chomsky makes the point that if you serve power,
power rewards you with respectability. If you work to undermine
power, whether by political analysis or moral critique, you are
"reviled, imprisoned, driven into the desert."
"It's as close to a historical truism as you
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Dear friends,
This is the second e-mail notification of the VLGA web site update
delivered directly to your mail box, courtesy of VLGA volunteer
web-master.
Please let me know if you do not wish to receive it or conversely
- if
you wish to
Original Message
Subject: [WORKFARE] Re: Question
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 08:55:56 +0100
From: "Bob malecki" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: "Bob malecki" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Barabara wrote..
From: "Barbara R. Sands" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anyone seen the movie "The Enemy of the State"?
Check this out then:
From The Australian, at:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/index.asp?URL=/national/4301119.htm
Secret plan for spies to bug PCs
By DAN TEBBUTT
13jan99
PERSONAL computers would become police spy stations under secret
Subject: The Politics of Cancer
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 19:20:02 -0500
From: Robert Weissman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Multiple recipients of list CORP-FOCUS [EMAIL PROTECTED]
*Follow-up note from last week:* The referenced William Hartung report
on
the
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/index.asp?URL=/state/4361630.htm
Govt planning for radioactive dump: Greens
30jan99
THE West Australian government was secretly preparing to establish a
radioactive and toxic waste dump in the state's remote north-west,
Greens MP Giz Watson said
From The Australian, at:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/index.asp?URL=/national/4213910.htm
Older jobless to work for dole
31jan99
THE Howard Government is set to expand its work for the dole scheme
to unemployed people aged under 40.
The move will dramatically increase the number of
from the Australian, at:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/index.asp?URL=/national/4209189.htm
Welfare move threat to privacy
By PETER REES
31jan99
THE privacy of more than two million Australians receiving welfare is under
threat because of the Federal Government's handling of sensitive
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/index.asp?URL=/national/4313448.htm
Truant teens lose dole
10feb99
THOUSANDS of jobless teenagers have been struck off the dole for failing to
return to school under tough new youth allowance rules.
A Senate estimates committee was told yesterday 3000 young
Govt outlines sale conditions for ABC Online
The Federal Government has outlined a range of conditions to apply to any
sale of the ABC's Internet service.
The privatisation proposal has been raised by ABC board member Michael Kroger.
Mr Kroger says $250 million could be raised by selling 49
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/index.asp?URL=/national/4386570.htm
Read for dole fills in $14m cost hole
By CATHERINE ARMITAGE
13feb99
THE Federal Government faced an unavoidable payout of $14 million on
literacy and numeracy courses for the unemployed before it moved last
month to
From The Australian on line, at:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/index.asp?URL=/national/4335786.htm
Bad girl takes on Aussie e-mails
By DOMINIQUE JACKSON
31mar99
AFTER crippling communications in US companies since Friday, the
fast-breeding new Melissa computer virus has claimed an Australian
Original Message
Subject: ICRC perspective on Kosovo
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 20:35:15 +1000
From: Australian Red Cross Victoria [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear All,
Following recent discussion around local and global humanitarian issues,
some of you might be interested in a Red Cross
http://www.theage.com.au/daily/990412/news/news29.html
Monday 12 April 1999: From The Australian:
"The Listen closely: your forests are being felled"
Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List
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http://www.theage.com.au/daily/990412/news/news4.html
Fels enters fight over forest book
By CLAIRE MILLER
ENVIRONMENT REPORTER
The fight over a book promoting plantation timbers intensified
yesterday when Australia's chief consumer watchdog
From:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/index.asp?URL=/national/4139064.htm
Free trade campaigners ready to cast their Net
By SID MARRIS
19apr99
AUSTRALIAN trade negotiators are bracing themselves for an Internet-
driven e-mail campaign aimed at defeating the critical next stage of
Subject: Forum: "Is Medicare Sustainable?"
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 15:00:39 +1000
From: "Richard Dent, VCOSS" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Health Issues Centre is hosting a one-day consultation on the
topic "Is Medicare
Original Message
Subject: AccessAbility Conference
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 17:14:39 +1000
From: VLGA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello there
On 11 June, Vicnet, together with the Information and Telecommunications
Needs Research Group of Monash University, are running a one day
conference
From: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/index.asp?URL=3D/national/4330908.htm
Reith's $220m reform ultimatum
By MICHAEL BACHELARD
19may99
THE Howard Government has threatened to withdraw its $50 million investment
in Melbourne's Federation Square project if the developer's agreement with
unions
Dear friends,
this is just a quick note to inform you of changes to VLGA web-site.
Please visit http://home.vicnet.net.au/~viclga/welcome.htm for he
latest news!
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Snez P.
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Original Message
Subject: Sunday Online Email Update May 23 1999
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 23:40:24 +1000
From: "Sunday Online" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "Sunday registered users" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SUNDAY ONLINE FREE EMAIL UPDATE May 23 1999
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/index.asp?URL=3D/national/4157230.htm
Screws tighten for 'job snobs'
By NATHAN VASS
23may99
UNEMPLOYED people will no longer be able to stay on the dole forever,
Employment Services Minister Tony Abbott said yesterday.
The unemployed will receive $3.6
Original Message
Subject: FPI ++ Volume 3 Number 14
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 21:31:14 +
From: "Freedom Press" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: F R E E D O M P R E S S I N T E R N A T I O N A L, Volume 3
Number 14
3/ THE MINIMUM WAGE IN BRITAIN
SHORT
From ABC on-line news today:
*Esso fires union members for refusing to work*
Esso has stood down hundreds of workers at its Gippsland gas plant,
in another dispute with unions over safety at the site.
Union members are refusing to work, demanding sirens and flashing
lights be installed to warn
Original Message
Subject: Sunday Online Email Update May 30 1999
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 23:45:16 +1000
From: "Sunday Online" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
__
SUNDAY ONLINE - Program: 9am to 11am AEST - May 30 1999
KKK linked to seven Australian churches
http://www.theage.com.au/daily/990603/news/news7.html
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KKK linked to seven Australian churches
http://www.theage.com.au/daily/990603/news/news7.html
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http://www.theage.com.au/breaking/19990604/A42415-1999Jun4.shtml
Entire world's youth troubled by unemployment: UN report
Source: AAP | Published: Friday June 4 4:21:53 PM
No matter where they lived, youth the world over were troubled by
unemployment, health and environmental issues, according
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:WWN: Vital Signs 1999
NEWS FROM THE WORLDWATCH INSTITUTE
Worldwatch is pleased to announce the publication of "Vital Signs 1999: The
Environmental Trends That Are Shaping Our Future," by
Original Message
Subject: Hacktivism e-mail list launch!
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 12:34:48 -0400
From: Grugnog [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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A new e-mail list has been formed to discuss and
debate what has been termed 'hacktivism'. Refacing
corporate and
Original Message
Subject: MAI discussion group
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 00:05:20 +1000
From: "Alan Griffiths" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The old stop-mai discussion list at UTS is open for use. You can subscribe
yourself by going to the web address:
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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 16:59:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: Al [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Global Trade Negotiations Home Page
*
Hello,
I am writing to announce the launch of the Global Trade Negotiations Home
Page. The site, which can
Pressure on sole parents to find a job
By MICHELLE GUNN
30aug99
http://www.news.com.au/frame_loader.htm?/news_content/4080250.htm
SOLE parents will be forced to attend career- development sessions as part
of a federal government pilot project extending mutual obligation to
parents on income
Women provoke violence: magistrate
By legal affairs editor CINDY WOCKNER
30aug99
http://www.news.com.au/frame_loader.htm?/news_content/4166728.htm
A NSW magistrate has claimed women provoke domestic violence through
"nagging, bitching and emotionally hurting men".
In a report to be released
Original Message
Subject: DFAT Public hearing in Melbourne
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 17:19:49 +1000
From: "Alan Griffiths" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has published
on the web a detailed issues paper in connection with a series
Food cost woes for poor
By EVE LAMB
1sep99
SIX per cent of Tasmanians are going without food because they can't afford
to buy it, a major statewide survey has revealed.
The Healthy Communities Survey released by Health Minister Judy Jackson
yesterday also shows that one in every 10 Tasmanian
Original Message
Subject: Melbourne Ballarat Public Hearing on WTO
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 14:02:33 +1000
From: "Alan Griffiths" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear Everyone,
You can now register a placement on the DFAT site if you wish to attend the
public hearing in Melbourne,
http://news.com.au/frame_loader.htm?/news_content/national_content/4347003.htm
PEACEKEEPERS MAY SHOOT TO KILL
By ROBERT GARRAN and staff reporters
15sep99
THE East Timor peace force, now almost certain to be led by Australia with
the first units in place as early as tomorrow, will have orders
Kennett's surprise lifeline
By DAMON JOHNSTON and FRAN CUSWORTH
24sep99
http://news.com.au/frame_loader.htm?/news_content/state_content/4403438.htm
JEFF Kennett needs just 20 votes to win back a key seat thought lost to
Labor and with it a surprise lifeline.
The Premier's hopes of saving
Clinton rights poverty
From Washington correspondent CAMERON FORBES
1oct99
http://news.com.au/frame_loader.htm?/news_content/world_content/4292695.htm
PRESIDENT Bill Clinton, calling for the building of a global society that
leaves nobody behind, has announced the US will forgive 100 per cent
Unionists fume at Patrick
By CATHY PRYOR
13oct99
http://news.com.au/frame_loader.htm?/news_content/state_content/4324437.htm
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Future directions of welfare policy in Australia:
See:
http://www.facs.gov.au/dss/dss.nsf/whatnew/29_9_99speech.htm
excerpt from above page:
"During the next few months, the Reference Group will be meeting with
representatives from relevant peak organisations. It is also seeking the
views of
Justice for hire proposed
By AMANDA KEENAN
28oct99
A CIVIL court-for-hire, user-pays-all scheme where parties pay thousands of
dollars a day to contract out a court and a judge could be piloted under
the WA Law Reform Commission's recommendations for a revamp of the state's
legal system.
Seattle Doctor's Searing Statement On Police Brutality
From Dr. Byron Weeks [EMAIL PROTECTED]
12-5-99
My name is Richard DeAndrea. I'm a medical doctor. What I saw up here was
martial law. This turned into a police state. Everything you have seen on
television regarding local news
Subject: Young people in Nursing Homes? You've got to be Joking!!
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 10:31:22 +1100
From: Joseph Connellan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am writing to inform you of and seek your support for the Day of Action
on April 1, 2000 aimed at drawing attention to the inappropriate
Net draws up new battlelines for activists
http://www.theage.com.au/news/2123/A40163-2000Jan22.html
By JOHN VIDAL
LONDON
Sunday 23 January 2000
We are at war. Not the sort that pits army against army, sheds blood,
destroys economies and bankrupts governments, but the kind that is being
From: Charles Brass [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Our guest for the first forum of 2000 will be Race Mathews author of (most
recently) "Jobs of our own - building a stakeholder society - alternatives
to the market and the state".
Race is passionate about ways in which communities can
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2000 14:30:10 +1100
From: Rolf Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Meeting at Plumbers Union,54 Victoria Street, Carlton South (next toTrades
Hall)
Thursday February 17th,2000,7.30pm
Re: World Economic Forum inMelbourne on 11th-13th September
Dear All,
Public First have called this
From: "Philip Sutton" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
February 16
WATER REFORM IN AUSTRALIA
A review of Water Reform in Australia will be held on WEDNESDAY MARCH 15
during the Xth World water Congress, Melbourne's Convention Centre, March
12-17.
Australia is a pacesetter in water reform and significant
From: Richard Dent [EMAIL PROTECTED]
VCOSS is offering free seminars on how to implement the GST in your
organisation.
These seminars are being held throughout Victoria, and commence in early
March. Any Victorian non-profit is eligible to attend.
For more information on the VCOSS GST
From: "svea pitman" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
People in East Gippsland urgently require donations and support in the way
of camping equipment, tarps, pots, woks, tools, mats, blankets and bedding,
wet weather gear and warm clothing and infrastructure to rebuild the
Goolengook camp. Nearly the entire
Original Message
Subject: WWN: Fwd:New Paper--Worldwatch Live on VOA
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NEWS FROM THE WORLDWATCH INSTITUTE
2. Press Release for Worldwatch Paper 150, "Underfed and Overfed: The
Global Epidemic of Malnutrition," by Gary Gardner and Brian Halweil.
CHRONIC
Original Message
Subject: SACRED RUN 2000 (Australia)
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 09:38:00 +1000
From: Friends of the Earth Sydney - Forestry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Recipient List Suppressed:;
Dear people, (apologies for cross posting)
could you please network this message far and
http://news.com.au/0,2600,575811%255E421,00.html
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