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Can the world afford more tourism?

08.27.10 by Tom Neal Tacker in Australia

Been to Bali lately? Or Fiji? Planes are loaded with cashed up tourists bent on having a good time at whatever cost to the environment, local culture and social structures. Is this what internationalisation is all about? What happens when mass tourism leaves behind more than dirty footprints? Read More »

By TOM NEAL TACKER

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Who are hoons and is crushing their cars the answer?

11.22.10 by Castlemaine Independent in Australia

Burnouts, wheelies, doughnuts, drag racing ... the Victorian Government has worked wonders on the road toll over the past 20 years. In mid-2006 they introduced tough new 'anti-hoon' legislation, but is clamping down on young people and branding them 'hoons' the best way to deal with the problem? Does it… Read More »

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Income Management: The best we can do?

04.29.11 by Andrew Dodd in Australia

Journalist Andrew Dodd submits the following proposal for undertaking the investigation pitched by Eva Cox on YouCommNews. How would you like it if someone else managed your money? For thousands of Australians that’s what’s happening under a controversial scheme called income management. Income Management started out… Read More »

By ANDREW DODD

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How can we save ourselves from the dangerous overuse of antibiotics?

05.23.11 by Inside Story in Australia

Experts have been warning us for years of the dangers of antibiotic resistance – which is acknowledged as a major global public health problem – but the inappropriate and overuse of antibiotics continues. Overuse of antibiotics in medicine, agriculture and aquaculture has led to the… Read More »

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After Forestry - What's the plan for the day the Solomon Islands runs out of trees?

08.30.10 by Steve Sharp in Australia

Judith Bennett’s epic 200-year history of how Solomons Islanders have used their forest wealth - Pacific Forest – ended in 1997. Since then, much has changed – a civil uprising in 2000 leading to ethnic war, a multinational intervention force designed to build the state,… Read More »

By STEVE SHARP

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Vic Electricity not Privatized - Colonialised How the Singapore Government is profiting from its majority ownership of the Victorian Electricity Distribution

11.23.10 by Ruth Kershaw in Australia

.The Victorian electricity market is a money making machine for the Singaporean Government. They own the majority of Distributors across the state. Some of which they share ownership with others. They are majority owners of the 'fee for service' providers to the Distributors: Which they… Read More »

By RUTH KERSHAW

How Much is ABC24 Really Costing Us?

07.30.10 by Margaret Simons in Australia

Have you been watching ABC24 news? This new publically funded television service has, according to ABC Managing Director Mark Scott, been created without spending any extra money. But he has declined to release the budget or the figuring. Meanwhile there are plenty of people inside… Read More »

By MARGARET SIMONS

CFS Sufferers: Living Corpses left for Dead

08.23.10 by Toula Mantis in Australia

How would you react if you were left to deal with a chronic disease that medical professionals are at a loss to explain its causes and more importantly its cure? What effect do you think it would have on your life if one day you began to cough and continued… Read More »

By TOULA MANTIS

Cervical cancer vaccinations can lead to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

02.01.12 by Toula Mantis in Australia

This is the second story of a 10-part series looking at the lives of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome sufferers. We look into the life of a university student whose world has been turned upside down after she followed her doctor's advice. The medical advice was sanctioned by the Australian… Read More »