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Auto parts maker hit by IR crossfire
Whether right or not, it's clear that the union movement is fearful that the impending wave of industrial relations reform legislation will put it...
The high cost of Green fear
A month ago, NSW Premier Bob Carr uncorked the bottle holding the nuclear power genie. This week, Marcus Godhino used these pages to try to replace...
Known Unknowns in the World of Aid
The tsunami disaster struck a chord with people around world. This is reflected by the staggering donations made to non-government organisations...
Locking up parklands is blinkered approach
J. K. Galbraith famously said that the conventional wisdom is always wrong. For 50 years the conventional wisdom on national parks and conservation...
Biotech strategy may be Victoria's poison pill
There are three things politicians should beware of - wine, women and technolologists. -- Georges Pompidou, French president Victorian Premier...
Regulated to a standstill
For more than two years cries of an infrastructure crisis has rung loudly from the halls of industry. Governments -- state and federal -- have...
Analysis comes first
Nicholas Low ("Nuclear deaths", The Age, Letters 16/5) demonstrates how emotional baggage associated with nuclear issues trumps cool analysis. The...
Not much light on the hill
On Sunday, June 12, 1949, in a famous address to the NSW ALP state conference the Labor prime minister, Ben Chifley, announced his party's...
Consistent Message Needed
During his visit to Australia in early June, Californian professor, Jared Diamond, told a crowd of 850 that included government Ministers,...
Amnesty trapped in the past
The Secretary-General of Amnesty International, Irene Khan, described Guantanamo Bay as the "gulag of our times" in her foreword to the...