http://www.smh.com.au/news/9811/27/text/features4.html
The Sydney Morning Herald
27 Nov 1998
FEDERAL POLITICS
Hanson's house divided
Date: 27/11/98
With sliding electoral fortunes and growing internal dissent, the One Nation party is
in trouble - and it's showing, writes GREG
ROBERTS.
ONE
http://www.smh.com.au/news/9812/02/text/pageone8.html
The Sydney Morning Herald
2 Dec 1998
Hill could lose seat in court challenge - experts
Date: 02/12/98
By GREG ROBERTS
One Nation's sole Federal MP, Queensland senator-elect Mrs Heather Hill, is
likely to be forced out of Parliament by a
The Australian
http://www.news.com.au/national/
N-dump firm digs in for a long haul
By CHIP Le GRAND and CATHY PRYOR
3apr99
THE debate surrounding Pangea Resources' proposal to build a
$10.5 billion nuclear waste storage facility in the West Australian
desert borders on the surreal.
Australian Financial Review
Dec 9, 1998
Bottom line: work smarts
Work Relations,
By Julie Macken
"Work smarter -- not harder". Such a slick,
gen-X idea; why didn't we think of it before?
Imagine if we could find clever ways of doing
what we do now, but doing it in half the time.
We could
http://www.afr.com.au/content/981218/news/news4.html
Australian Financial Review
Dec 18, 1998
All transgenic food to be
labelled
By Cathy Bolt
The food industry has suffered a defeat in its
bid for a smooth introduction of transgenic
foods in Australia after a ruling by health
ministers
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/index_national.htm
The Australian
Sacked miners jobs to go to non-union staff
By STEFANIE BALOGH
19dec98
A GROUNDBREAKING decision in one of the nation's longest-running and
most bitter industrial disputes yesterday cleared the way for non-
union workers
The Sydney Morning Herald
Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Precedence: bulk
http://www.smh.com.au/news/9812/21/text/national14.html
Miners' jobs fight for High Court
Date: 21/12/98
STORIES by BRAD NORINGTON, Industrial Editor
The coalminers' union plans an appeal to the High Court after
suffering
The Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/9812/26/text/national6.html
Hill ready to approve uranium mine
Date: 26/12/98
BY JULIA BAIRD
The Federal Government is likely to approve development of the
Beverley uranium mine in South Australia, despite claims that it
could
Australian Financial Review
Dec 30, 1998
http://www.afr.com.au/content/981230/news/news6.html
Casuals now fill 17pc of jobs:
survey
By Mark Lawson
The major trend towards the "casualisation" of
the workforce is accelerating with casual and
contract workers now filling 17 per cent of all
The Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/9901/02/text/business7.html
Union battle lost but stock price war won
Date: 02/01/99
By LACHLAN JOHNSTON
Lang Corp, the owner of Patrick Stevedores, started 1998 in a trough.
With union skirmishes breaking out in several of its ports,
The Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/9901/05/text/national9.html
Coombs backs defiant wharfies
Date: 05/01/99
By HELEN TRINCA, Workplace Writer
The Maritime Union of Australian yesterday labelled Patrick a
"renegade" of the waterfront as the stevedore company reserved its
The Sydney Morning Herald
Breaking News
http://www.smh.com.au/news/current/breaking2/index.html
Friday, January 15, 1999
Russian and US officials says nukes
should be Y2K safe
Washington, Thursday: US and Russian officials today issued
assurances that their offensive and defensive weapons
Australian Financial Review
Jan 18, 1999
http://www.afr.com.au/content/990118/update/update21.html
Russia faces huge Y2K
problem says official
Russia faces huge problems ensuring its missile
systems will not be affected by the so-called
"millennium bug" computer problem, a senior
official was
Australian Financial Review
Feb 3, 1999
IMF jobs cure: cut
welfare, union power
By Katharine Murphy
The International Monetary Fund has urged the Australian Government to cut
welfare benefits and attack trade union power to address Australia's
persistently high unemployment rate.
In a new
Australian Financial Review
Feb 4, 1999
http://www.afr.com.au/content/990204/news/news2.html
Modelling makes the job
of selling a GST harder
By Mark Davis and Nina Field
The Federal Government's tax-reform package
could destroy 100,000 jobs and would fail to
generate any lasting economic
Australian Financial Review
Feb 10, 1999
http://www.afr.com.au/content/990210/news/news10.html
Job security makes sense
Work Relations, By Stephen Long
Job security is dead, right? Not if you work for some of the best companies
in America.
At Southwest Airlines, Harley-Davidson and the
Announcing a new email forum for the discussion of Mongol,
Uyghur, Taiwanese and Tibetan independence (mutti-l). The mutti-l
list will host discussions on how to transform ideas into actions
which will aid the Mongol, Uyghur, Taiwanese and Tibetan people
realize their dreams of
The Australian
http://www.news.com.au/headlines/
Howard playing 'dirty' on Jabiluka
By CHRISTOPHER DORE
17feb99
THE Howard Government was accused yesterday of using
unprincipled, improper and immoral international moves in a bid to
stop an embarrassing proposal to list Kakadu
THE AGE
http://www.theage.com.au/daily/990221/news/news12.html
Sunday 21 February 1999
Sick used in gene testing
By FIA CUMMING
and SIMON CRITTLE
Seriously ill cancer patients were used as guinea pigs, without
approval from scientific authorities, in an experiment involving a
mutated
Australian Financial Review
Feb 23, 1999
http://www.afr.com.au/content/990223/update/update34.html
British govt company confirms plans for nuke dump
A company wholly-owned by the British government has confirmed its plans to
develop an international nuclear waste dump in the Australian
The Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/9902/24/text/features1.html
STOLEN GENERATION
Genocide amid the wattle
Date: 24/02/99
As the Federal and NSW Governments prepare to fight stolen children
test cases, Professor Colin Tatz explains to DEBRA JOBSON why
Australia's treatment
[The profit made from lost jobs - Trudy]
Australian Financial Review
Feb 23, 1999
http://www.afr.com.au/content/990223/update/update13.html
Lang Corp expects Q1 profits
to continue
Lang Corp Ltd managing director Chris Corrigan said the company
expects to continue to post profits in the
The Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/9903/02/text/features1.html
HINDMARSH FALLOUT
A bridge writ large
Date: 02/03/99
One of Australia's most extraordinary webs of litigation has been woven
around a tiny stretch of water and the bridge supposed to span it. Debra
Jopson
ACTION ALERT!
Please circulate widely
support is needed for the block - widest possible circulation
two clumps of housing already demolished
current development application - 44-56 eveleigh st Redfern
the block community speakout hand delivered to the council meeting 17/2/99
their strong
HERALD SUN
http://www.news.com.au/headlines/
Gene food chaos
By MICHELLE COFFEY
10mar99
HUNDREDS of illegal "mutant" foods could soon appear on
supermarket shelves throughout Australia.
Baby food, bread, cheese, margarine and potato chips are among
an estimated 500 everyday
The Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/9903/13/text/pageone8.html
Label gene food, says jury
Date: 13/03/99
By DEBORAH SMITH
After deliberating through the night until dawn, a citizen's jury at
Australia's inaugural consensus conference brought down a unanimous
report
Australian Financial Review
http://www.afr.com.au/content/990318/update/update34.html
March 18, 1999
GST would hurt Aborigines,
says ATSIC
ATSIC has told the senate committee on the
GST that proposed tax reforms would increase
the hardship for already disadvantaged
indigenous people.
The
Australian Financial Review
March 25, 1999
Radical: Reith's new IR plan
By Chelsey Martin and Nina Field
The Federal Government has unveiled a radical
new plan to reform the industrial relations
system which could severely reduce the role of
unions and sideline the Australian Industrial
The Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/9903/26/text/pageone3.html
ASIO cleared to hack into computers
Date: 26/03/99
By BERNARD LAGAN and BEN POWER
Australia's domestic spy agency, ASIO, will be given sweeping powers
to hack into computers and place tracking devices on people
The Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/9903/27/text/national8.html
Genetic food may duck law
Date: 27/03/99
By DEBORAH SMITH
Hundreds of foods containing genetically engineered ingredients are due to become
illegal for sale by mid-May because they have not
received safety
The Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/9903/31/text/national1.html
MPs approve sale of untested food
Date: 31/03/99
By DEBORAH SMITH
Australia has approved the continued sale of as many as 500 genetically
engineered foods which have not yet passed local safety tests.
Health
Australian Financial Review
April 1, 1999
http://www.afr.com.au/content/990401/news/news3.html
Unions ally against attack
By Nina Field
Two major Australian unions have teamed up to resist any docks-style
crackdown on the building industry.
The strategic pact between the two key unions
The Sydney Morning Herald (Print edition)
April 2, 1999
We love a sunburnt country, not one scorched by radioactive waste.
by
Helen Caldicott and Mary Olson
AUSTRALIA is in grave danger. The international nuclear industry
wants our ancient continent to become the repository for three-
quarters
Australian Financial Review
http://www.afr.com.au/content/990413/news/news5.html
April 13, 1999
Fresh attack on ASIO access to records
By Geoffrey Barker
Federal Government plans to allow the Australian Security Intelligence
Organisation to access financial transaction information came under
The Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/index.html
Wednesday, April 14, 1999
Police use capsicum spray on protester
By GEESCHE JACOBSEN
Two males were arrested at an anti-uranium mine protest on the
corner of George and King streets yesterday and charged with
assault.
The protest
The Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/index.html
Wednesday, April 14, 1999
Book-ban loggers face a pulping
By MURRAY HOGARTH, Environment Editor
An attempt by the logging industry to ban a book promoting
"forest-friendly" building timber blew up in its face yesterday when the
The Australian
http://www.news.com.au/national/
Industry splinters on woodchip book
By MADELEINE COOREY
19apr99
A TASMANIAN timber wholesaler has broken ranks with the
industry and will sell a book the National Association of Forest
Industry wants banned.
The proprietor of Timber
The Australian
http://www.news.com.au/national/
Top award for Jabiluka fight
By MEGAN SAUNDERS
20apr99
TWO Aboriginal women heading the campaign to stop the Jabiluka
uranium mine will receive one of the world's most prestigious
environmental prizes this morning.
Yvonne Margarula,
THE AGE
http://www.theage.com.au/daily/990421/news/news14.html
Wednesday 21 April 1999
Aboriginal documents may be lost
By JANINE MacDONALD CANBERRA
Crucial documents that could enable some ``stolen generation'' Aborigines
to trace their families are turning to dust at an indigenous research
The Sunday Times
http://www.news.com.au/national/
Pangea nukes its critics
25apr99
AMERICAN nuclear waste-disposal company Pangea has begun its public
relations campaign offensive to woo the Australian public.
On Monday the company organised focus groups across the country to monitor
The Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/9904/30/text/national1.html
Floodgates open for modified food
Date: 30/04/99
By DEBORAH SMITH
The number of genetically engineered foods that may be sold legally in
Australia before local safety assessment will more than double today as
[Nestle can be contacted at the website below. Their only email contact
address is in SA at this site. - Trudy]
http://www.nestle.com/html/q.html
The Australian
http://www.news.com.au/national/
Nestle sour on banning mutant food
By SID MARRIS
30apr99
FOOD giant Nestle's British division has
The Sydney Morning Herald [Print Edition]
May 1, 1999
Dignity confronts whitefellas
by Alan Ramsey
BILLY Bunter, the glutton from Greyfriars, is the most famous schoolboy in
English children's fiction, a 1908 creation of the boys' paper the Magnet.
More recently, our pudgy Foreign Minister
The Australian
http://www.news.com.au/headlines/
US loses genetic food bid
By SID MARRIS
3may99
A BID by the US to resist compulsory labelling of genetically
modified food had been rejected at a meeting of the UN food
standards body, consumer groups said yesterday.
Australia,
Sunday Times
http://www.news.com.au/national/
Genetic food crackdown
2may99
WA could play a central role in new plans by national health
authorities to crack down on the sale of illegal genetic foods.
The proposal emerged on Friday during a telephone conference of
senior health
The Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/9905/07/text/national13.html
Reith pushes commission to the sideline
Date: 07/05/99
STORIES by HELEN TRINCA,Workplace Reporter
The Federal Government will introduce a new system of privatised mediation
in industrial disputes under a
THE AGE
http://www.theage.com.au/daily/990507/news/news31.html
Friday 7 May 1999
Dock workers still waiting for redundancy payments
By ANDREA CARSON
WORKPLACE REPORTER
Waterfront supervisor Ron Kelly was made redundant last November after 17
years with stevedoring company Strang
The Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/9905/15/text/features9.html
CIVIL RIGHTS
Angela's clashes
Date: 15/05/99
Angela Davis - you remember the afro. The '60s activist, as committed
as ever to civil rights, sees clear parallels between race struggles
in the US and Australia.
Australian Financial Review
http://www.afr.com.au/content/990517/news/news10.html
May 17, 1999
Alliance to push benefits
of biotechnology
By Cathy Bolt
Farmers, researchers and agribusiness interests
have teamed up to try to regain critical lost
ground in the bitter debate over the merits
THE AGE
http://www.theage.com.au/daily/990520/news/news15.html
Thursday 20 May 1999
Victoria's homeless highest in nation
By NICOLE BRADY
SOCIAL POLICY REPORTER
Victoria has the highest number of homeless adults and children in the
nation, with figures revealing that 49,000 adults and
The Sunday Tasmanian
http://www.news.com.au/headlines/
Tassie to debate risks of genetic engineering
By LIBBY SUTHERLAND
23may99
WIDESPREAD debate on the controversial issue of genetic
engineering is set to erupt in Tasmania.
In an effort to enlighten the State's population on the
The Mercury
http://www.news.com.au/tas/
Concern over soya, canola products
By STUART DIWELL
26may99
MANY food products sold in Australia used genetically modified soya bean
and canola ingredients which had not been tested for their potential
impacts on human health, Hobart-based scientist
Australian Financial Review
http://www.afr.com.au/content/990527/news/news1.html
May 27, 1999
Harradine scuttles Wik
By Lenore Taylor
State leaders claim that the Wik deal reached by the Prime Minister last
year now amounts to nothing, after Independent Senator Brian Harradine
indicated he
[Life among the predators and parasites. - Trudy]
The Australian
Empire built on 'no tax' principle
By KATHERINE TOWERS
27may99
ONE of Australia's richest men, Maurice Alter, built his family's $650
million property empire on a policy of "not paying income tax", his most
trusted business
NINEMSN and AAP
May 29, 1999
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/01_national/story_692.asp
Legal blunder gives Reith room
AAP -- A legal blunder by union solicitors has given federal Workplace
Relations Minister Peter Reith some breathing space in his courtroom battle
over Melbourne's Federation Square.
The Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/9906/02/text/pageone11.html
Web of hate: meet Sydney's KKK
Date: 02/06/99
By GREG ROBERTS
The Ku Klux Klan has established what it describes as a "real nice size
Klavern in the Realm of Australia", organised by a Sydney man associated
with
The Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/9906/05/text/national11.html
MUA's radical move wins ire of rival union
Date: 05/06/99
By HELEN TRINCA, Workplace writer
The Maritime Union of Australia has won its first industrial agreement
under a radical approach to bargaining which
['Worldclass' Sydney going proudly into the 1950s! --- Trudy]
The Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/9906/05/text/national9.html
'New' CBD no fun for disabled
Date: 05/06/99
By ADELE HORIN
The City of Sydney's $200 million upgrade of the CBD is a major setback for
people in
Australian Financial Review
http://www.afr.com.au/content/990611/news/news1.html
June 11, 1999
Government Solicitor queries
GST legislation
By Paul Cleary
The spectre of a High Court challenge to the GST has been raised in
confidential legal advice from the Australian Government Solicitor,
The Daily Telegraph
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/index.asp?URL=/bnew/pageone.htm
Ex-miners to share in $5bn
By JONATHAN PORTER
11jun99
12.30pm (AEST) A WORLDWIDE search began today in Australia for up to 35,000
miners who are entitled to share as much as $5 billion in compensation.
The
THE AGE
http://www.theage.com.au/daily/990618/news/news17.html
Unions reject IRC junior wage call
By PAUL ROBINSON and ANDREA CARSON
Australia's building and manufacturing unions have threatened strike action
if the Federal Government tries to introduce junior pay rates in their
industries.
Australian Financial Review
http://www.afr.com.au/content/990618/news/news7.html
June 18, 1999
Agriculture's genetic revolution could become a rotten apple
By Cathy Bolt
Australia's small but expanding organic food industry has warned that
farmers who grow genetically-engineered crops may
NINEMSN and AAP
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/01_national/story_1983.asp
Workplace reforms under fire
AAP -- The federal government's workplace relations reforms have been
undermined by an OECD report which found tighter regulation ensured more
stable jobs, a union said Saturday.
The Australian
Australian Financial Review
http://www.afr.com.au/content/990703/news/news5.html
July 3, 1999
Reith 'third wave' would
wipe out awards
By Paul Cleary
Australia's award system would be abolished
under a radical "third wave" agenda which
re-establishes the industrial relations system
under
The Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/9907/07/text/features4.html
WORKPLACE RELATIONS
Law leaves workers out in the cold
Date: 07/07/99
Just because a company goes bust doesn't mean its employees should also end
up broke. Tim Pallas explains how to protect them.
Australia is
The Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/9907/13/text/world11.html
GLOBAL INEQUITIES
Three families top 600m poor
Date: 13/07/99
London: The combined wealth of the world's three richest families is
greater than the annual income of 600 million people in the least developed
The Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/9907/21/text/pageone7.html
TV cover thin for disabled Games
Date: 21/07/99
By MATTHEW MOORE, Olympics Editor
Channel 7 has agreed to televise 13 hours of next year's Paralympic Games -
but there are no plans for any live coverage and it is
The Courier-Mail
http://www.news.com.au/headlines/
Private jail firm linked to CIA
By MARSHALL WILSON
24jul99
A MASSIVE United States company accused of doctoring computer software to
allow the CIA to spy on foreign governments is running key Australian jails
and detention centres, including
THE AGE
http://www.theage.com.au/daily/990729/news/news24.html
Senator's Tibet call likely to anger Beijing
By DAVID LAGUE
CHINA CORRESPONDENT
BEIJING, WEDNESDAY
The Australian Greens Senator Bob Brown has called on the Howard Government
to scrap its controversial human rights talks with
PRESS RELEASE 29 July 1999
from: UNWGIP
Palais de Nations
Geneva
Australian Government Report to UN Offends Human Rights Principles
The Australian Government is offending the Charter of the United Nations,
the UN Charter of Human Rights and the various human rights treaties of the
United
The Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/9908/03/text/features3.html
LABOUR ISSUES
Employers flex their muscle on hours
Date: 03/08/99
For most employees, enterprise bargaining has meant more give than take on
when they work and for how long, writes RON CALLUS
Changing
THE AGE
http://www.theage.com.au/daily/990903/news/news2.html
September 3, 1999
Alarm at rise in unpaid hours
By ANDREA CARSON
WORKPLACE REPORTER
Australian employees are working longer and harder, but not necessarily for
extra money, a national survey has found.
The survey reveals that
The Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/9909/06/text/features2.html
Employers to face mounting wage rage
Date: 06/09/99
While some workers lose their basic entitlements, salaries at the top just
keep on escalating.
By HELEN TRINCA
The Pelaco factory workers who knocked on Peter
THE AGE
http://www.theage.com.au/daily/990908/news/news14.html
September 8, 1999
Reveal Reith letter: judge
By PAUL ROBINSON
WORKPLACE EDITOR
A Federal Court judge has compared allegations
against the federal employment advocate to a
senior police officer being accused of
corruption.
The Guardian [UK]
Tuesday September 7, 1999
Jakarta's godfathers
It is grotesque hypocrisy for Tony Blair to weep for the children of
Dunblane.
John Pilger
Having finally discovered East Timor, most of the media have now left,
blaming a "descent into violence". The long, silent years
-Original Message-
From: Claude Mostowik [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thursday, 9 September 1999 10:35
Subject: MASS WITH EAST TIMORESE
Dear Friends,
Just to let you know that there will be a Eucharist [Mass] this evening,
Friday 10th September, at 7.30 PM, outside the United Nations
Here is a partial list of email addresses of American Senators. I should
have more later.
If you use them to urge support for peacekeeping in East Timor, don't use a
whole list of them showing. Make sure they are BCC otherwise they will not
be paid attention to.
Trudy
The Australian
http://www.news.com.au/
Jakarta's 'final solution' exposed
By LYNNE O'DONNELL
17sep99
A MILITIA leader has admitted Indonesia's military intelligence drew up a
grand plan in February to massacre pro-independence East Timorese and cause
a massive humanitarian catastrophe.
[Is there a trade deal behind this? -- Trudy]
The Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/9909/20/text/national12.html
Tibet's never had it so good: Nats MP
Date: 20/09/99
By MARK METHERELL in Canberra
Tibetans were "far better off" under Chinese rule than under the former
Australian Financial Review
http://www.afr.com.au/content/990921/news/news2.html
September 21, 1999
Spy report did a backflip
By Geoffrey Barker
A Defence intelligence assessment revealed by the Federal Opposition
yesterday claimed in April that the Indonesian military provided a
"moderating
ABC TV
Inside Story
Welcome To Australia
Tuesday September 28, 8:30pm
Award-winning film-maker John Pilger returns home to Australia to witness
the elaborate preparations for the 2000 Olympic Games and the surge in
national pride as the country promotes itself as a confident new nation
[A somewhat misleading header - Trudy]
Australian Financial Review
September 29, 1999
Boost for Howard in decision on AWAs
By Stephen Long
The Federal Court has found that employers have a legal right to make
signing an Australian Workplace Agreement a condition of employment for new
[Maybe ball-and-chains, whips and bread-and-water-diet would satisfy the
Chamber of Commerce... --- Trudy]
THE AGE
http://www.theage.com.au/daily/990930/news/news8.html
September 30, 1999
Reith laws too soft: employers
By ANDREA CARSON
WORKPLACE REPORTER
The Howard Government's controversial
THE AGE
http://www.theage.com.au/news/19991004/A38486-1999Oct3.html
Howard helps the rich - again
By KENNETH DAVIDSON
Monday 4 October 1999
IF THE Senate passes the main recommendation of the Ralph report, to halve
capital gains tax, it will have punched the biggest hole in the tax system
Australian Financial Review
http://www.afr.com.au/content/991008/news/news1.html
October 8, 1999
Rio's win a historic shift for IR
By Stephen Long
Rio Tinto won a decisive victory against the coal mining union yesterday in
a decision that has major implications for the future of industrial
Security clouds Web data proposal
http://www.news.com.au/news_content/breaking_content/4099656.htm
From TED BRIDIS of AP in Washington
12oct99
1.45pm (AEST) ENGINEERS designing a new way to send information across the
Net want to include a unique serial number from each personal computer
Australian Financial Review
http://www.afr.com.au/content/991025/news/news2.html
October 25, 1999
Reith's third wave: goodbye to awards
By Stephen Long and Kath Cummins
The Federal Minister for Workplace Relations, Mr Peter Reith, has stepped
up his push for a third wave of industrial
http://www.afr.com.au/content/991027/update/update57.html
Unionists being driven underground Inquiry told
Frightened workers were keeping their union memberships secret to avoid
being sacked by militant bosses, a senate inquiry was told today.
Australian Workers Union Queensland secretary
The following letter is for distribution regarding the coming referendum
..
Dear Sir
The debate about the Republic, and ironically the preamble, has largely
passed Aborigines by. Neither the 'Yes' nor the 'No' camps bothered to
come near Aborigines to talk about the implications of
Russians open Chechen border as UN arrives
Source: AFP | Published: Friday November 5 3:53:45 AM
KAVKAZ, Russia, Nov 4 - Russian soldiers let hundreds of Chechens cross the
border to safety today, moments before a United Nations mission arrived at
the scene to evaluate the refugee crisis.
A
Kerry Packer's company makes $1.25b profit, pays no tax
Source: AAP | Published: Monday November 8 9:01:11 AM
Kerry Packer's private investment company Consolidated Press Holdings Ltd
(CPH) made a net profit of almost $1.25 billion in 1998/99 and paid no tax,
it was reported today.
The
http://www.news.com.au/
Chechen refugees plead for help
From YURI BAGROV of AP
11nov99
SLEPTSOVSKAYA, Russia: Angry, frightened Chechen refugees pleaded for help
today as international officials toured a tent city where thousands of
people huddled in freezing cold and snow.
"They are
The Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/9911/15/text/world6.html
Besieged Grozny about to be razed
Date: 15/11/99
By NEELA BANERJEE in Moscow, and agencies
Moscow has announced its biggest victory yet in the seven-week Chechen war
with the capture of Gudermes, the rebel
Australian Financial Review
http://www.afr.com.au/content/991124/news/news5.html
November 24, 1999
Australia's health system is in a critical condition
By Julie Macken
Australians owe the Minister for Health, Dr Michael Wooldridge, a debt of
gratitude for undermining their expectations of the
The Canberra Times
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news2/news5.shtml
Saturday, 4 December, 1999
Plan allows access to health data
The Federal Government confirmed yesterday plans to make large amounts of
Medicare data available to insurance companies, law firms and state health
bodies.
But
The Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/9912/06/text/pageone7.html
Our children are 'fifth poorest'
Date: 06/12/99
By ADELE HORIN
Australia has the fifth highest rate of child poverty in the industrialised
world, and compared even with Taiwan, is doing badly by its children, a
The Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/9912/08/text/world1.html
40,000 trapped as military closes in
Date: 08/12/99
By DAVID FILIPOV in Western Chechnya
Scores of terrified refugees were reported to be fleeing the Chechen
capital, Grozny, after the Russian military issued an
Australian Financial Review
http://afr.com.au/content/991210/feature/feature1.html
December 10, 1999
Labor States stage industrial revolution
By Stephen Long
It's a quiet coup for the Industrial Relations Club and it's passed
virtually unnoticed.
While national attention focused on the
AFR and AP
http://afr.com.au/content/991210/update/update70.html
December 10, 1999
Rights group highlights abuses, but has praise for 1999
Police brutality in the United States, torture in Sierra Leone and civilian
massacres in Colombia have been highlighted in an annual survey of human
http://afr.com.au/content/991213/feature/feature1.html
Australian Financial Review
December 13, 1999
The passage of secrets
By Brian Toohey
Not so long ago, Major General Zacky Anwar Makarim had good reason to smile
when he saw a member of the Australian embassy enter his Jakarta
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